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Wenjie (Evan) Hua

wh583 AT georgetown DOT edu

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Hello! I am interested in computational linguistics. Currently, I work on low-resource NLP, that is, how to model languages with limited data, and sometimes their ancient written forms. Also, I am a loyal outdoor enthusiast; hiking and caving are my favorites.

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Education

Georgetown University

Ph.D. Student in Computational Linguistics

Advisor: Amir Zeldes

Aug 2026 - Present

Wuhan University

B.A. in Paleography

Advisors: Dan Liu, Yancheng Zhang, Yinzong Wei (NTU Singapore)

Sept 2022 - June 2026

University of Notre Dame

Exchange Student

Advisors: Liang Cai, Kathleen Eberhard

July 2024 - Dec 2024

Publications

  1. Oracle Bone Inscriptions Information Processing: A Comprehensive Survey
    Zijian Chen, Wenjie Hua, Jinhao Li, Yucheng Zhu, Xiaona Zhi, Zhiji Liu, Tingzhu Chen, Wenjun Zhang, Guangtao Zhai
    npj Heritage Science
    Repository
  2. PictOBI-20k: Unveiling Large Multimodal Models in Visual Decipherment for Pictographic Oracle Bone Characters
    Zijian Chen*, Wenjie Hua*, Jinhao Li, Lirong Deng, Fan Du, Tingzhu Chen, Guangtao Zhai
    ICASSP 2026
    Code & Data / Ranked 3rd place in the OpenCompass Annual Benchmark
    *Equal contribution
  3. BIRD: Bronze Inscription Restoration and Dating
    Wenjie Hua, Hoang H. Nguyen, Gangyan Ge
    EMNLP 2025
    Poster / Slides / Code & Data
  4. Logits-Constrained Framework with RoBERTa for Ancient Chinese NER
    Wenjie Hua, Shenghan Xu
    NAACL 2025 Workshop
    Overview Paper / Ranked 2nd place in the EvaHan

Presentations

  1. Bibliometric Methods in the Study of Chinese Ancient Texts
    52nd Annual Mid-Atlantic Region Association for Asian Studies Conference
  2. Invoke Immortals: A Social History of Jianghuai Built on Divination and Techniques (1900 - 1949)
    73rd Midwest Conference on Asian Affairs
  3. 《难免不》冗余否定结构论略 (Exploration on the Redundant Negative Structure of “nán miǎn bù”)
    18th China International Conference on Contemporary Linguistics & 8th International Symposium on Gerontolinguistics / 第十八届中国当代语言学国际研讨会暨第八届老年语言学国际学术研讨会