Faculty Associates

Yan Cong

Contact Information
Email: cong4@purdue.edu
Office: SC G015 Map
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Assistant Professor, School of Languages and Cultures

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Pillars of Interdisciplinary Research Excellence


Engineering over the Life Course; Preserving Cognitive Function

Education


PhD Michigan State University Linguistics 2021

Research Interests


Natural language understanding, Computational approach to language function and disfunction, Description and experiments in linguistic meaning

Teaching Interests


Computational linguistics, Statistical modeling in linguistics, Language learning and AI

Grants


2024 - Purdue University Center on Aging and the Life Course

Selected Publications


2024 Cong, Yan; Lee, Jiyeon; LaCroix, Arianna N. Leveraging pre-trained large language models for aphasia detection in English and Chinese speakers. In Proceedings of the 6th Clinical Natural Language Processing Workshop (Clinical NLP). 238-245. Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL).

2024 Cong, Yan; LaCroix, Arianna N.; Lee, Jiyeon. Clinical efficacy of pre-trained large language models through the lens of aphasia. Nature Scientific Reports. 14, 15573.

2024 Cong, Yan. Manner implicatures in large language models. Nature Scientific Reports. 14, 29113.

2024 Britton, James; Cong, Yan; Hsu, Yu-Yin; Chersoni, Emmanuele; and Blache, Philippe. On the Influence of Discourse Connectives on the Predictions of Humans and Language Models. Frontiers in Human Neuroscience. 18, 1363120.

2023 Tang, Sunny X.; Cong, Yan; Mercep, Gwenyth; Bhatti, Mutahira; Serpe, Grace; Gromova, Valeria; Berretta, Sarah; John, Majnu; Liberman, Mark; Sinvani, Liron. Characterizing and Detecting Delirium with Clinical and Computational measures of Speech and Language Disturbance. Journal of Psychiatry and Neuroscience. 48(4), E255-E264.


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