Email: wjhuah AT gmail DOT com
Hello!
I am Wenjie Hua, a senior undergraduate at Wuhan University with an exchange at the University of Notre Dame, interested in paleography, computational linguistics, and East Asian ancient history. Academically, I worked on code-switching at Eberhard Language Lab, did research on legal history and politics, advised by Dr. Liang Cai, and collaborated on deep learning for pre-modern printings, supervised by Dr. Yinzong Wei.
I am one of the organizers of the Early Chinese Legal Documents Workshop. Previously, I worked as an editorial assistant in the Science and Humanities Division at Science Press and served as vice president of Chunying Poetry Society, with several of my poems published in literary journals. Also, I am a loyal outdoor enthusiast; mountain climbing and cave exploring are my favorites.
Publications
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, under review (regularly updated repository)
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) †Equal contribution
BIRD: Bronze Inscription Restoration and Dating – Wenjie Hua, Hoang H. Nguyen, Gangyan Ge, EMNLP 2025 (poster; slides; code & data)
Logits-Constrained Framework with RoBERTa for Ancient Chinese NER – Wenjie Hua, Shenghan Xu, NAACL 2025, 4th International Evaluation of Ancient Chinese Information Processing (ranked 🥈nd place in the EvaHan; see overview paper)
The Historian’s Fingerprint: A Computational Stylometric Study of the Zuo Commentary and Discourses of the States - Wenjie Hua, NAACL 2025, 2nd Workshop on Ancient Language Processing (poster; code & data)
Presentations
Bibliometric Methods in the Study of Chinese Ancient Texts - Wenjie Hua, 52nd Annual Mid-Atlantic Region Association for Asian Studies Conference (MARAAS 2024)
Invoke Immortals: A Social History of Jianghuai Built on Divination and Techniques (1900 - 1949) - Wenjie Hua, 73rd Midwest Conference on Asian Affairs (MCAA 2024)
The Constructional Semantic Evolution of “xian” in Oracle Bone and Bronze Inscriptions - Wenjie Hua, 6th International Conference on Cognitive Semantics
Exploration on the Redundant Negative Structure of “nan mian bu” (難免不, ‘inevitably not’) - Taiyu Wang, Wenjie Hua, 18th China International Conference on Contemporary Linguisties & 8th International Symposium on Gerontolinguistics