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.

Published

June 2026

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

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Thesis

June 2026

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.

MA Thesis, Uppsala University, 46 pages

Thesis author; framework design and experimental lead

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Under Review

October 2026

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

Under Review

October 2026

LongFinRAG: A Benchmark for Finding the Right Evidence in 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

In Preparation

December 2026

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

In Preparation

December 2026

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

In Preparation

December 2026

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