Yu Cao  曹羽

Berlin, Germany

Dissertation

My dissertation studies how quantification and plurality can be encoded in graph-based semantic representations [github repo]. The outcome includes

• a graph language based on AMR and HLDS,
• a model-theoretical semantics of this language,
• a semantic parser that composes semantic graphs in CCG syntax.

Publications

Yu Cao, Elliott Ash, Daniel L. Chen. Automated fact-value distinction in court opinions. European Journal of Law and Economics 2020. [paper]

Alex Warstadt, Yu Cao, Ioana Grosu, Wei Peng, Hagen Blix, Yining Nie, Anna Alsop, Shikha Bordia, Haokun Liu, Alicia Parrish, S. Wang, Jason Phang, Anhad Mohananey, Phu Mon Htut, Paloma Jeretic, Samuel R. Bowman. Investigating BERT's Knowledge of Language: Five Analysis Methods with NPIs. Proceedings of EMNLP/IJCNLP 2019. [paper]

Presentations

Yu Cao. Causal and Instrumental How Questions. Mid-Atlantic Colloquium of Studies in Meaning (MACSIM 8). April 6, 2019, NYU. [abstract]

Yu Cao. Passing On the Contrast: Systematic Symmetric Contrast in Subordinate Gapping-like Ellipsis in Mandarin Chinese International Workshop on Theoretical East Asian Linguistics (TEAL 10). June 13-14, 2015, Tokyo University of Foreign Studies. [abstract]