Publications
I currently have one peer-reviewed publication, and I’m working on several other manuscripts that are either under review or still in preparation. You can find them all here, with links to the related project pages if you’d like to learn more about the research behind each paper.
LoRA Fine-Tuning of English-Norwegian NMT for the Oil & Gas Industry
Xiaojing Yang, Zhihan Li, Gege Sun, Mengyue Li, Meriem Beloucif
EAMT 2026 research on LoRA adaptation for low-resource petroleum-domain machine translation.
Proceedings of the 26th Annual Conference of the European Association for Machine Translation (Volume 1)
First author; lead experimental contributor
Modular Expert Architectures for Multilingual Domain Adaptation: Parameter-Efficient Norwegian Petroleum Translation with LoRA and Gated Routing
Xiaojing Yang
Master's thesis presenting a parameter-efficient multilingual adaptation framework that combines language-specific LoRA experts, gated routing, and target-anchored synthetic data for Norwegian petroleum-domain translation.
MSc Thesis, Uppsala University, 46 pages
Thesis author; framework design and experimental lead
Beyond Routing: Diagnosing Modular LoRA Experts for Low-Resource Multilingual Petroleum-Domain Translation
Xiaojing Yang, Zhihan Li, Meriem Beloucif
A diagnostic study of modular LoRA experts for low-resource petroleum translation.
COLING 2027 via ACL Rolling Review (ARR)
First author; framework design and experimental lead
FinRAG-Equinor: A Reliability-Audited Benchmark for Evidence Localization in Longitudinal Annual Reports
Xiaojing Yang, Zhihan Li, Meriem Beloucif
A reliability-audited benchmark for evidence-grounded RAG on 15 long annual reports, with 720 QA items and traceable report-, page-, and object-level evidence.
COLING 2027 via ACL Rolling Review (ARR)
First author; benchmark construction and retrieval evaluation lead
When Does GraphRAG Help? A Controlled Study of Evidence Localization in Long Annual Reports
Xiaojing Yang, Zhihan Li
Controlled GraphRAG research showing that selected graph expansion improves exact evidence recovery, while graph paths add complementary page coverage over long annual reports.
TBD
First author; retrieval framework and evaluation lead
Group-level Training Data Attribution with Exact Shapley Analysis: A Controlled Machine Translation Case Study
Xiaojing Yang, Zhihan Li
Exact Shapley analysis of how training groups shape machine-translation behavior.
TBD
First author; attribution framework, experimental design, and analysis lead
When Data Cleaning Becomes Bias: Target-Standard Specialization in Norwegian Machine Translation
Zhihan Li, Xiaojing Yang
A controlled English-Norwegian MT study showing how Bokmål filtering creates target-standard specialization—and how reference choice can turn that specialization into an evaluation-bias problem.
TBD
Co-author; controlled experiment design and analysis lead