Hello!
I am Wenjie Hua, a junior 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.
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
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; data)
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” (先 to guide & earlier & ancient) 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
Tools
When researching ancient Chinese history, I often find it hard to compile bibliographies. Luckily, Sinobib compiled by Paul R. Goldin has been very helpful in this case. If you want to have a try, please visit sinobib.com!
Here is another link to quickly locate an oracle bone inscription from Xiaotun South 小屯南地 along with its period and category!