Hey there ^^ I am Kiara Liu, a Ph.D. student at the Culture and Computation Lab, Cornell Information Science. I am advised by Matthew Wilkens.

I approach digital humanities from two angles: computational text analysis as methodology and digital texts as objects of study. I am specifically interested in Chinese and global queer web fictions, as well as texts in translation.

Some projects that I am/have been working on:

• Exploring how characters are gendered in different subgenres of Chinese web novels
• Using LLMs to clean up transcription errors in digitized archives of historical English texts
• Recommending best practices for evaluating and using machine translation tools for the City of New York

When I’m not working with LLMs, I enjoy reading, writing, and translating. Find my creative work here.