Jessica Lin

Ph.D., Department of Linguistics, Georgetown University · yl1290 [at] georgetown [dot] edu

My name is Jessica (Yi-Ju) Lin (林宜儒). I recently completed my PhD in Computational Linguistics at Georgetown University (June 2025), where I’m advised by Amir Zeldes and a member of Corpling Lab and Computational Linguistics @ Georgetown (GUCL). Before coming to Georgetown, I recieved my M.A. in Linguistics from National Taiwan University and B.A. in Applied Chinese Language and Culture from National Taiwan Normal University. Check out my CV here.

My dissertation, "Entity Salience in Discourse: A Computational and Corpus Approach", seeks to investigate entity salience in discourse from a computational and corpus approach. My dissertation committee consists of Amir Zeldes, Nathan Schneider, and Massimo Poesio.

Research Interests:

  • Entity Linking, Salient Entity Extraction
  • Hate Speech Detection, Multimodal Hate Speech Detection
  • Resources & Evaluation, Corpus Linguistics
  • Societal applications of NLP, NLP for Social Good

Publications

What Makes an Entity Salient in Discourse?

Amir Zeldes, Jessica Lin

preprint.

preprint

2025

GUM-SAGE: A Novel Dataset and Approach for Graded Entity Salience Prediction

Jessica Lin , Amir Zeldes

In Proceedings of the Findings of the 63rd Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL 2025). Vienna, Austria, 438–455.

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2025

GDTB: Genre Diverse Data for English Shallow Discourse Parsing across Modalities, Text Types, and Domains

Yang Janet Liu, Tatsuya Aoyama, Wesley S Scivetti, Yilun Zhu, Shabnam Behzad, Lauren Elizabeth Levine, Jessica Lin, Devika Tiwari, Amir Zeldes

In Proceedings of the 2024 Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing (EMNLP 2024). Miami, Florida, USA, 12287–12303.

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2024

GUMsley: Evaluating Entity Salience in Summarization for 12 English Genres

Jessica Lin, Amir Zeldes

In Proceedings of the 18th Conference of the European Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics (EACL 2024). St. Julian’s, Malta, 2575–2588.

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2024

GENTLE: A Genre-Diverse Multilayer Challenge Set for English NLP and Linguistic Evaluation

Tatsuya Aoyama, Shabnam Behzad, Luke Gessler, Lauren Levine, Jessica Lin, Yang Janet Liu, Siyao Peng, Yilun Zhu, Amir Zeldes

In Proceedings of the 17th Linguistic Annotation Workshop (LAW) at ACL 2023. Toronto, Canada, 166-178.

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2023

Leveraging World Knowledge in Implicit Hate Speech Detection

Jessica Lin

In Proceedings of the 2nd Workshop on NLP for Positive Impact (NLP4PI) at EMNLP 2022. Abu Dhabi, UAE, 31-39.

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2022

WikiGUM: Exhaustive Entity Linking for Wikification in 12 Genres

Jessica Lin, Amir Zeldes

In Proceedings of the Joint 15th Linguistic Annotation Workshop (LAW) and 3rd Designing Meaning Representations (DMR) Workshop (LAW-DMR) at EMNLP 2021. Punta Cana, Dominican Republic, 170-175.

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2021

The Secret to Popular Chinese Web Novels: A Corpus-Driven Study

Yi-Ju Lin, Shu-Kai Hsieh

In Proceedings of 2nd Language, Data and Knowledge (LDK 2019), Leipzig, Germany.

paper

2019

Education

Georgetown University

Ph.D.
Computational Linguistics
August 2020 - August 2025

Georgetown University

M.S.
Linguistics - Computational Linguistics Track

GPA: 3.89/4.0

August 2020 - December 2023

National Taiwan University

M.A.
Linguistics - Computational Linguistics Track

GPA: 3.73/4.0

September 2017 - June 2020

National Taiwan Normal University

B.A.
Department of Applied Chinese Language and Culture

GPA: 3.86/4.0

September 2013 - June 2017

Experience

Student Assistant

GURT/SyntaxFest 2023 Conference
Conference planning, including designing the conference website and helping with administrative tasks
March 2023

Corpus Resources Coordinator

Department of Linguistics, Georgetown University
- Developed and maintained corpus resources for NLP research by running software and data maintenance projects, improving overall data quality and enabling more accurate analysis

- Interfaced with users and handled acquisition requests

August 2021 - December 2021

Program Assistant

Assessment and Evaluation Language Resource Center (AELRC)
Built website for the Study Abroad Language Corpus (SALC) using Django
CODE
January 2021 - May 2021

Research Assistant in LOPE (Lab of Ontologies, Language Processing and E-Humanities)

Chinese Wordnet (CWN) Project
Published in Proceedings of the 10th Global WordNet Conference (GWC 2019)
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2019

Student Assistant

2018 Team Taiwan Cultivation Project for International Linguistics Olympiad
Group activity organizer in Taiwan national team summer camp
July 2018

Teaching

Introduction to NLP

Teaching Assistant
Grading and holding office hours with enrolled students to discuss any issues with the course content and exams
Designed and led exam review sessions as the primary instructor
Fall 2023, Spring 2025

Introduction to Linguistics

Teaching Assistant
Grading and holding office hours with enrolled students to discuss any issues with the course content, final project and exams
Spring 2021

Online Chinese Teaching Course

Student Drill Instructor

Online elementary Chinese teaching course of Austin Peay State University (Tennessee State)(30 hours in total)

March 2016 - May 2016

Awards

Grants

Service

Skills

Language Skills
Programming Languages & Tools
Projects