Published in Preprint
Recommended citation: Wang, Y., Liu, Y., & Li, B. (2026). From Virtual Tours to Digital Twins: Expectation Calibration as the Missing Link Between Hospitality Communication, Distribution, and Service Quality. Preprints. https://doi.org/10.20944/preprints202607.1833.v1
Published in Journal of Medical Internet Research (JMIR) Cancer
Recommended citation: Lei F, Huang F, Guo Y, Kim SS, Liu Y. Online Intervention on Lung Cancer Screening Among High-Risk Individuals: Pilot Intervention Study. JMIR Cancer. 2026 Jun 16;12:e89823. doi: 10.2196/89823. PMID: 42302275
Published in Preprint
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Recommended citation: Sun, Yiyou, et al. "Agents' Last Exam." arXiv preprint arXiv:2606.05405 (2026).
Published in Journal of Database Management
Recommended citation: Liu, Y., Almousa, M., & Anwar, M. (2026). A FAIR Principles-Driven Quality Assessment of Social Media Datasets for Natural Language Processing-Based Pandemic Surveillance. Journal of Database Management (JDM), 37(1), 1-23. https://doi.org/10.4018/JDM.399759
Published in The 14th CCF International Conference on Natural Language Processing and Chinese Computing (NLPCC 2025)
Recommended citation: Jiang, Z. et al. (2026). LLMA4ITOps: A Lightweight LLM-Based Multi-Agent Framework for IT Operations and Maintenance. In: Mao, XL., Ren, Z., Yang, M. (eds) Natural Language Processing and Chinese Computing. NLPCC 2025. Lecture Notes in Computer Science(), vol 16103. Springer, Singapore. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-95-3346-6_36
Published in Findings of the Association for Computational Linguistics (EMNLP 2025)
Recommended citation: ChengYan Wu, Yiqiang Cai, Yang Liu, Pengxu Zhu, Yun Xue, Ziwei Gong, Julia Hirschberg, and Bolei Ma. 2025. Multimodal Emotion Recognition in Conversations: A Survey of Methods, Trends, Challenges and Prospects. In Findings of the Association for Computational Linguistics: EMNLP 2025, pages 6257–6274, Suzhou, China. Association for Computational Linguistics. https://doi.org/10.18653/v1/2025.findings-emnlp.332
Published in 2024 Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing: Industry Track
Recommended citation: Zhang, T., Jiang, Z., Bai, S., Zhang, T., Lin, L., Liu, Y., & Ren, J. (2024, November). RAG4ITOps: A Supervised Fine-Tunable and Comprehensive RAG Framework for IT Operations and Maintenance. In Proceedings of the 2024 Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing: Industry Track (pp. 738-754). https://doi.org/10.18653/v1/2024.emnlp-industry.56
Published in In 2024 Conference on AI, Science, Engineering, and Technology (AIxSET)
Recommended citation: S. Luitel, Y. Liu and M. Anwar, "Audio Sentiment Analysis with Spectrogram Representations and Transformer Models," 2024 Conference on AI, Science, Engineering, and Technology (AIxSET), Laguna Hills, CA, USA, 2024, pp. 149-153, doi: 10.1109/AIxSET62544.2024.00027.
Published in In 2024 Conference on AI, Science, Engineering, and Technology (AIxSET)
Recommended citation: B. D. Davis, Y. Liu and M. Anwar, "Repository of Metadata-Related Threats and Mitigation Strategies to Enhance Security in Smart Homes," 2024 Conference on AI, Science, Engineering, and Technology (AIxSET), Laguna Hills, CA, USA, 2024, pp. 189-193, doi: 10.1109/AIxSET62544.2024.00035.
Published in The 23th International Conference on Intelligent Software Methodologies, Tools, and Techniques
Recommended citation: Liu Y, Anwar M. Analyzing twitter data for insights into public sentiment during covid-19 pandemic. In: New Trends in Intelligent Software Methodologies, Tools and Techniques: Proceedings of the 23rd International Conference on New Trends in Intelligent Software Methodologies, Tools and Techniques (SoMeT_24). SAGE Publications; 2024:412-425. doi:10.3233/FAIA240388
Published in ProQuest
Recommended citation: Liu, Y. (2024). Pandemic Surveillance Using Social Media Data, Natural Language Processing, and Machine Learning (Doctoral dissertation, North Carolina Agricultural and Technical State University).
Published in Journal of Racial and Ethnic Health Disparities
Recommended citation: Whitfield, C., Liu, Y. & Anwar, M. Impact of COVID-19 Pandemic on Social Determinants of Health Issues of Marginalized Black and Asian Communities: A Social Media Analysis Empowered by Natural Language Processing. J. Racial and Ethnic Health Disparities (2024). https://doi.org/10.1007/s40615-024-01996-0
Published in AI and Ethics
Recommended citation: Luitel, S., Liu, Y. & Anwar, M. Investigating fairness in machine learning-based audio sentiment analysis. AI Ethics (2024). https://doi.org/10.1007/s43681-024-00453-2
Published in IEEE Transdisciplinary Artificial Intelligence Conference
Recommended citation: Aldrich, B., Liu, Y., Almousa, M., & Anwar, M. (2023). Translating Keystroke and Mouse Dynamics Data to Classify Human Mood.
Published in IEEE Access
Recommended citation: Liu, Z., Hu, J., Liu, Y., Roy, K., Yuan, X., & Xu, J. (2023). Anomaly-based Intrusion on IoT networks using AIGAN - a Generative Adversarial Network.
Published in Under Review
Recommended citation: Luitel, S., Liu, Y., & Anwar, M. (2023). Investigating Fairness in Machine Learning-based Audio Sentiment Analysis using Spectrograms and Bag-of-visual-words.
Published in 2022 IEEE/ACM Conference on Connected Health: Applications, Systems and Engineering Technologies (CHASE)
Recommended citation: Y. Liu, Z. Yue and M. Anwar, "Monkeypox At-a-glance from Google Trends and Reddit," 2022 IEEE/ACM Conference on Connected Health: Applications, Systems and Engineering Technologies (CHASE), Arlington, VA, USA, 2022, pp. 166-167.
Published in 2022 Fourth International Conference on Transdisciplinary AI (TransAI)
Recommended citation: Y. Liu and M. Anwar, "Learning Programming in Social Media: An NLP-powered Reddit Study," 2022 Fourth International Conference on Transdisciplinary AI (TransAI), Laguna Hills, CA, USA, 2022, pp. 55-58, doi: 10.1109/TransAI54797.2022.00015.
Published in International Conference on Human-Computer Interaction
Recommended citation: Almousa, M., Liu, Y., Zhang, T., Anwar, M. (2021). A Study on Online Businesses’ Commitment to Consumer Privacy. In: Moallem, A. (eds) HCI for Cybersecurity, Privacy and Trust. HCII 2021. Lecture Notes in Computer Science(), vol 12788. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-77392-2_25
Published in Health Information Science and Systems
Recommended citation: Liu Y, Whitfield C, Zhang T, Hauser A, Reynolds T, Anwar M. Monitoring COVID-19 pandemic through the lens of social media using natural language processing and machine learning. Health Inf Sci Syst. 2021 Jun 25;9(1):25. doi: 10.1007/s13755-021-00158-4. PMID: 34188896; PMCID: PMC8226148.
Published in 12th ACM International Conference on Bioinformatics, Computational Biology and Health Informatics (ACM-BCB'21)
Recommended citation: Whitfield, C., Liu, Y., & Anwar, M. (2021, August). Surveillance of COVID-19 pandemic using social media: a reddit study in North Carolina. In Proceedings of the 12th ACM International Conference on Bioinformatics, Computational Biology, and Health Informatics (pp. 1-8). https://doi.org/10.1145/3459930.3469550
Published in ProQuest
Recommended citation: Liu, Y. (2020). A comparative study of vector space language models for sentiment analysis using reddit data (Doctoral dissertation, North Carolina Agricultural and Technical State University).
Published in IEEE International Conference on Information Reuse and Integration (IRI) 2018
Recommended citation: Vaughn, A., Biocco, P., Liu, Y., & Anwar, M. (2018, July). Activity detection and analysis using smartphone sensors. In 2018 IEEE International Conference on Information Reuse and Integration (IRI) (pp. 102-107). IEEE. https://doi.org/10.1109/IRI.2018.00022