2025

Danni Liu, Jan Niehues. (2025). Middle-Layer Representation Alignment for Cross-Lingual Transfer in Fine-Tuned LLMs. [poster] ACL

Hyunji Lee, Danni Liu, Supriti Sinhamahapatra, and Jan Niehues. (2025). How do Multimodal Foundation Models Encode Text and Speech? An Analysis of Cross-Lingual and Cross-Modal Representations. [poster] NAACL

2024

Siqi Li*, Danni Liu*, and Jan Niehues. (2024). Optimizing Rare Word Accuracy in Direct Speech Translation with a Retrieval-and-Demonstration Approach. EMNLP

Tu Anh Dinh, Carlos Mullov, Leonard Bärmann, Zhaolin Li, Danni Liu, Simon Reiß, Jueun Lee, Nathan Lerzer, Jianfeng Gao, Fabian Peller-Konrad, Alexander Waibel, Tamim Asfour, Michael Beigl, Rainer Stiefelhagen, Carsten Dachsbacher, Klemens Böhm, Jan Niehues. (2024). SciEx: Benchmarking Large Language Models on Scientific Exams with Human Expert Grading and Automatic Grading. EMNLP

Lukas Hilgert, Danni Liu, and Jan Niehues. (2024). Evaluating and Training Long-Context Large Language Models for Question Answering on Scientific Papers. CustomNLP4U Workshop @ EMNLP

Danni Liu and Jan Niehues. (2024). Recent Highlights in Multilingual and Multimodal Speech Translation. [slides] IWSLT

Vladimir Solovyev, Danni Liu, and Jan Niehues. (2024). Language-Independent Representations Improve Zero-Shot Summarization. NAACL

Danni Liu and Jan Niehues. (2024). How Transferable are Attribute Controllers on Pretrained Multilingual Translation Models? [slides] [poster] EACL

Yunus Demirag, Danni Liu, and Jan Niehues. (2024). Benchmarking Diffusion Models for Machine Translation. EACL Student Research Workshop

2023

Christian Huber, Tu Anh Dinh, Carlos Mullov, Ngoc-Quan Pham, Thai Binh Nguyen, Fabian Retkowski, Stefan Constantin, Enes Ugan, Danni Liu, Zhaolin Li, Sai Koneru, Jan Niehues, and Alexander Waibel. (2023). End-to-End Evaluation for Low-Latency Simultaneous Speech Translation. EMNLP Demo

2022

Danni Liu and Jan Niehues. (2022). Learning an Artificial Language for Knowledge-Sharing in Multilingual Translation. [video] [slides] WMT

Danni Liu, Changhan Wang, Hongyu Gong, Xutai Ma, Yun Tang, and Juan Pino. (2022). From Start to Finish: Latency Reduction Strategies for Incremental Speech Synthesis in Simultaneous Speech-to-Speech Translation. [poster] Interspeech

Tu Anh Dinh, Danni Liu, and Jan Niehues. (2022). Tackling Data Scarcity in Speech Translation using Zero-shot Multilingual Machine Translation Techniques. ICASSP

2021

Sai Koneru, Danni Liu, and Jan Niehues. (2021). Unsupervised Machine Translation On Dravidian Languages. DravidianLangTech Workshop @ EACL

Danni Liu, Jan Niehues, James Cross, Francisco Guzmán, and Xian Li. (2021). Improving Zero-shot Translation by Disentangling Positional Information. [video] [slides] ACL

Danni Liu, Gerasimos Spanakis, and Jan Niehues. (2020). Low-Latency Sequence-to-Sequence Speech Recognition and Translation by Partial Hypothesis Selection. [video] [slides] Interspeech

Danni Liu, Jan Niehues, and Gerasimos Spanakis. (2020). Adapting End-to-End Speech Recognition for Readable Subtitles. [video] [slides] IWSLT

* indicates equal contribution