PUBLICATIONS

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Toward machine translation literacy: How lay users perceive and rely on imperfect translations
Yimin Xiao, Yongle Zhang, Dayeon Ki, Calvin Bao, Marianna J. Martindale, Charlotte Vaughn, Ge Gao, Marine Carpuat
EMNLP 2025 Main [arXiv]

Sustaining human agency, attending to its cost: An investigation into generative AI design for non-native speakers' language use
Yimin Xiao, Cartor Hancock, Sweta Agrawal, Nikita Mehandru, Niloufar Salehi, Marine Carpuat, Ge Gao
ACM CHI 2025 [paper]

Comparing native and non-native English speakers' behaviors in collaborative writing through visual analytics
Yuexi Chen, Yimin Xiao, Kazi Zinat, Naomi Yamashita, Ge Gao, Zhicheng Liu
ACM CHI 2025 [paper]

Detecting persuasion techniques in online propaganda: An AI-annotation intervention
Lu Xiao, Yimin Xiao, Giovanni Da San Martino, Preslav Nakov, Changzhou Zheng
HICSS 2025 🏆 Best Paper Nomination [paper]

(Dis)placed contributions: uncovering hidden hurdles to collaborative writing involving non-native speakers, native speakers, and AI-powered editing tools
Yimin Xiao, Yuewen Chen, Naomi Yamashita, Yuexi Chen, Zhicheng Liu, Ge Gao
ACM CSCW 2024 [paper]

Physician detection of clinical harm in machine translation: Quality estimation aids in reliance and backtranslation identifies critical errors
Nikita Mehandru, Sweta Agrawal, Yimin Xiao, Elaine C Khoong, Ge Gao, Marine Carpuat, Niloufar Salehi
EMNLP 2023 🏆 Outstanding Paper Award [paper]

More than ESL: Exploring cultural collaboration opportunities with international students
Connie Siebold, Yimin Xiao
ALISE 2023

Will you talk about God with a spirituality chatbot? An interview study
Charis Asante-Agyei, Yimin Xiao, Lu Xiao
HICSS 2022 [paper]

Effects of anonymity on comment persuasiveness in Wikipedia Articles for Deletion discussions
Yimin Xiao, Lu Xiao
NLP+CSS Workshop at EMNLP 2020 [paper]

TV-AfD: An imperative-annotated corpus from the Big Bang Theory and Wikipedia’s Articles for Deletion discussions
Yimin Xiao*, Zong-Ying Slaton*, Lu Xiao
LREC 2020 [paper]