wjhuah dot gmail dot com
Hello! I am Wenjie, interested in computational linguistics. I work on low-resource language processing and paleography, that is, how to use limited data to study languages and their ancient written forms. Also, I am a loyal outdoor enthusiast; hiking and caving are my favorites.
Education
Wuhan University, B.A. in Paleography, September 2022 - June 2026
Advised by
Dan Liu,
Yancheng Zhang
and
Yinzong Wei (NTU Singapore)
University of Notre Dame, Exchange Student, July 2024 - December 2024
Advised by
Liang Cai
and
Kathleen Eberhard
Publications
2026
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 Forthcoming (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), Ranked 3rd place in the OpenCompass Annual Benchmark *Equal contribution
2025
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 (overview paper), Ranked 2nd place in the EvaHan
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
2024
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” – Taiyu Wang, Wenjie Hua, 18th China International Conference on Contemporary Linguisties & 8th International Symposium on Gerontolinguistics
Service
Reviewer
International Conference on Science, Technology and Innovation Indicators (STI 2024)