Professor Liu has led numerous research projects as PI and engaged in cross-disciplinary collaboration with scholars in Natural Language Processing and Applied Linguistics. She has won a number of significant awards in teaching and research, including the NCTU Excellent Teaching Award (2014), NCTU Distinguished Academic Book Publication Award (2013), LST Thesis of the Year Award, Linguistics Society of Taiwan (2011), Pursuit of Excellency Research Grant Award (2007-2011), NCTU Outstanding Teaching Award (2009-10). She has also served as the External Reviewer, Hong Kong Research Grant Council (2011-14), LST Board Member (2010-12), Section Editor, International Journal of Computational Linguistics & Chinese Language Processing (2009-13), as well as reviewer for a number of prestigious journals, such as Language, Journal of semantics, Journal of Pragmatics, Studies in Language, Lingua, Corpus Linguistics and Linguistic Theory, Australian Journal of Linguistics, Journal of Chinese Linguistics, and Language and Linguistics, etc. She is dedicated to integrating linguistics research with knowledge transfer.