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Junyi Jessy Li

66 papers · 2014–2026 · 9 conferences · across top CS/AI conferences

Achievements

🐣 Hot Topic Early Bird πŸŒ‰ Interdisciplinary Bridge 🧭 Keyword Pioneer 🌍 Conference Polyglot (9) πŸƒ Academic Marathon (11) 🐝 Cross-Pollinator (4) 🌈 Renaissance Researcher (7) πŸ—ΊοΈ Taxonomy Completionist (69) 🏠 Conference Loyalist (21) πŸ† Keyword Champion (5) 🌱 Topic Pioneer 🀝 Dynamic Duo (13) πŸ”¬ Deep Specialist (14) πŸ“ˆ Trend Setter πŸ—ƒοΈ Keyword Collector (252) πŸ’Ž Century Club (64) πŸ”₯ Unstoppable (12) ❓ The Questioner (7) ⚑ Prolific Year (15) πŸš€ Conference Pioneer

Conferences

ACL (21) EMNLP (19) NAACL (9) AAAI (5) COLING (5) EACL (3) IJCNLP (2) CONLL (1) ICML (1)

Top co-authors

Greg Durrett (13) Byron Wallace (8) Ani Nenkova (6) Milos Gligoric (6) Sheena Panthaplackel (5) Cornelia Caragea (5) Yating Wu (5) Kyle Mahowald (5) William Sheffield (5) Wei-Jen Ko (5)

Keywords

text classification (14) large language model (9) text simplification (8) text summarization (6) sentiment analysis (6) discourse analysis (5) question answering (5) emotion detection (5) unsupervised learning (5) domain adaptation (4) natural language processing (4) social media analysis (4) abstractive summarization (3) semantic analysis (3) transfer learning (3) question generation (3) source code (3) named entity recognition (3) natural language understanding (3) social media (3)

Papers

Which course? Discourse! Teaching Discourse and Generation in the Era of LLMs EACL 2026
Wugnectives: Novel Entity Inferences of Language Models from Discourse Connectives EACL 2026
Is It JUST Semantics? A Case Study of Discourse Particle Understanding in LLMs ACL 2025
Behavioral Analysis of Information Salience in Large Language Models ACL 2025
SPRI: Aligning Large Language Models with Context-Situated Principles ICML 2025
FactPICO: Factuality Evaluation for Plain Language Summarization of Medical Evidence ACL 2024
Do *they* mean β€˜us’? Interpreting Referring Expression variation under Intergroup Bias EMNLP 2024
Which questions should I answer? Salience Prediction of Inquisitive Questions EMNLP 2024
Sarcasm Detection in a Disaster Context COLING 2024
Detection and Measurement of Syntactic Templates in Generated Text EMNLP 2024
Language Models (Mostly) Do Not Consider Emotion Triggers When Predicting Emotion NAACL 2024
Wrapper Boxes for Faithful Attribution of Model Predictions to Training Data EMNLP 2024
Learning to Refine with Fine-Grained Natural Language Feedback EMNLP 2024
InfoLossQA: Characterizing and Recovering Information Loss in Text Simplification ACL 2024
Summarizing, Simplifying, and Synthesizing Medical Evidence using GPT-3 (with Varying Success) ACL 2023
Elaborative Simplification as Implicit Questions Under Discussion EMNLP 2023
Discourse Analysis via Questions and Answers: Parsing Dependency Structures of Questions Under Discussion ACL 2023
Counterfactual Probing for the Influence of Affect and Specificity on Intergroup Bias ACL 2023
Unsupervised Extractive Summarization of Emotion Triggers ACL 2023
Evaluating Subjective Cognitive Appraisals of Emotions from Large Language Models EMNLP 2023
Multilingual Simplification of Medical Texts EMNLP 2023
How people talk about each other: Modeling Generalized Intergroup Bias and Emotion EACL 2023
QUDeval: The Evaluation of Questions Under Discussion Discourse Parsing EMNLP 2023
FALTE: A Toolkit for Fine-grained Annotation for Long Text Evaluation EMNLP 2022
ProtoTEx: Explaining Model Decisions with Prototype Tensors ACL 2022
How Do We Answer Complex Questions: Discourse Structure of Long-form Answers ACL 2022
Impact of Evaluation Methodologies on Code Summarization ACL 2022
Evaluating Factuality in Text Simplification ACL 2022
Training Dynamics for Text Summarization Models ACL 2022
Learning to Describe Solutions for Bug Reports Based on Developer Discussions ACL 2022
The Role of Context and Uncertainty in Shallow Discourse Parsing COLING 2022
Text Simplification of College Admissions Instructions: A Professionally Simplified and Verified Corpus COLING 2022
SNaC: Coherence Error Detection for Narrative Summarization EMNLP 2022
Why Do You Feel This Way? Summarizing Triggers of Emotions in Social Media Posts EMNLP 2022
Discourse Comprehension: A Question Answering Framework to Represent Sentence Connections EMNLP 2022
Using Developer Discussions to Guide Fixing Bugs in Software EMNLP 2022
Political Ideology and Polarization: A Multi-dimensional Approach NAACL 2022
longhorns at DADC 2022: How many linguists does it take to fool a Question Answering model? A systematic approach to adversarial attacks. NAACL 2022
Paragraph-level Simplification of Medical Texts NAACL 2021
Elaborative Simplification: Content Addition and Explanation Generation in Text Simplification ACL 2021
Deep Just-In-Time Inconsistency Detection Between Comments and Source Code AAAI 2021
Elaborative Simplification: Content Addition and Explanation Generation in Text Simplification IJCNLP 2021
Did they answer? Subjective acts and intents in conversational discourse NAACL 2021
Discourse Level Factors for Sentence Deletion in Text Simplification AAAI 2020
Detecting Perceived Emotions in Hurricane Disasters ACL 2020
Learning to Update Natural Language Comments Based on Code Changes ACL 2020
Help! Need Advice on Identifying Advice EMNLP 2020
Inquisitive Question Generation for High Level Text Comprehension EMNLP 2020
Associating Natural Language Comment and Source Code Entities AAAI 2020
Evaluating Discourse in Structured Text Representations ACL 2019
Adaptive Ensembling: Unsupervised Domain Adaptation for Political Document Analysis EMNLP 2019
Adaptive Ensembling: Unsupervised Domain Adaptation for Political Document Analysis IJCNLP 2019
Domain Agnostic Real-Valued Specificity Prediction AAAI 2019
Plain English Summarization of Contracts NAACL 2019
From News to Medical: Cross-domain Discourse Segmentation NAACL 2019
Linguistically-Informed Specificity and Semantic Plausibility for Dialogue Generation NAACL 2019
Predicting and Analyzing Language Specificity in Social Media Posts AAAI 2019
Unsupervised Adversarial Domain Adaptation for Implicit Discourse Relation Classification CONLL 2019
Why Swear? Analyzing and Inferring the Intentions of Vulgar Expressions EMNLP 2018
Expressively vulgar: The socio-dynamics of vulgarity and its effects on sentiment analysis in social media COLING 2018
A Corpus with Multi-Level Annotations of Patients, Interventions and Outcomes to Support Language Processing for Medical Literature ACL 2018
Aggregating and Predicting Sequence Labels from Crowd Annotations ACL 2017
The Instantiation Discourse Relation: A Corpus Analysis of Its Properties and Improved Detection NAACL 2016
Detecting Content-Heavy Sentences: A Cross-Language Case Study EMNLP 2015
Cross-lingual Discourse Relation Analysis: A corpus study and a semi-supervised classification system COLING 2014
Assessing the Discourse Factors that Influence the Quality of Machine Translation ACL 2014