Jessica Lin

Ph.D. student, Department of Linguistics, Georgetown University · yl1290@georgetown.com

My name is Jessica Lin (Yi-Ju Lin). I am a Ph.D. student in the Department of Linguistics at Georgetown University. My research interests lie in Text Analytics, language data annotation and evaluation, and societal applications of Natural Language Processing (NLP). I am currently working on multimodal humor detection, my master's thesis is about predicting dark humor intensity within internet memes.

Publications

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

Author: Yi-Ju Lin, Shu-Kai Hsieh

Published in Proceedings of 2^nd Language, Data and Knowledge (LDK 2019)

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2019

Education

Georgetown University

Doctor of Philosophy

Linguistics - Computational Linguistics Track

August 2020 -

National Taiwan University

Master of Arts

Linguistics - Computational Linguistics Track

GPA: 4.01/4.3

September 2017 - June 2020

National Taiwan Normal University

Bachelor of Arts

Department of Applied Chinese Langauge and Culture

GPA: 4.15/4.3

September 2013 - June 2017

Working Experience

Chinese Wordnet (CWN) Project

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

Published in Proceedings of the 10^th Global WordNet Conference (GWC 2019)

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2019

2018 Team Taiwan Cultivation Project for International Linguistics Olympiad

Project Assistant

Group activity organizer in Taiwan national team summer camp

July 2018

The 2 ^nd Linguistic Analysis Hackathon, National Taiwan University

Coordinator

Organized and promoted the event

May 2018

Online Chinese Teaching Course

Instructor

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

March 2016 - May 2016

Skills

Programming Languages & Tools

Projects

Predicting Dark Humor Intensity within Internet Memes
Construction of a Personalized Commentaries Recommender System Through LineBot
When Taiwanese News Meet French News: A NLP Approach to Mining French and Taiwanese News
An Exploratory Study on English Pop Songs

Awards & Certifications

Linguistic Society of Taiwan (LST) Best M.A. Thesis Award (2020)
Nantional Taiwan Normal University (NTNU) Academic Excellence Award (2016)
Nantional Taiwan Normal University (NTNU) Excellent Students Scholarship (2015)