CV

Education

• Ph.D., Linguistics, Chinese University of Hong Kong, 2026 (expected)
  • Supervisor: Prof. Haihua Pan
• M.S., Computational Linguistics, University of Washington, 2022
  • Advisor: Prof. Fei Xia; Grade: 4.00/4.00
• M.Phil., Theoretical and Applied Linguistics, University of Cambridge, 2021
  • Supervisor: Prof. Nigel Collier; Grade: Distinction
• B.S., Economics, Linguistics, Mathematics, Asian Studies, University of Wisconsin–Madison, 2020
  • Grade: 3.97/4.00; Graduated with Distinction
• Certificate, Computer Sciences, University of Wisconsin–Madison, 2020

Research Interests

Natural Language Processing, Computational Linguistics, Machine Learning, Information Extraction, Transfer Learning, Information Systems, Syntax, Behavioral Economics

Publications

• Yige Chen, KyungTae Lim, and Jungyeul Park. A Linguistically-Informed Annotation Strategy for Korean Semantic Role Labeling. To appear in Proceedings of the 2024 Joint International Conference on Computational Linguistics, Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC-COLING 2024). 2024.
• Yige Chen, Jae Ihn, KyungTae Lim, and Jungyeul Park. Towards Standardized Annotation and Parsing for Korean FrameNet. To appear in Proceedings of the 2024 Joint International Conference on Computational Linguistics, Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC-COLING 2024). 2024.
• Yige Chen, KyungTae Lim, and Jungyeul Park. Korean Named Entity Recognition Based on Language-Specific Features. Natural Language Engineering. 2023.
• Yige Chen, Eunkyul Leah Jo, Yundong Yao, KyungTae Lim, Miikka Silfverberg, Francis Tyers, and Jungyeul Park. Yet Another Format of Universal Dependencies for Korean. In Proceedings of the 29th International Conference on Computational Linguistics (COLING). 2022.

Awards and Honors

• Hong Kong PhD Fellowship (2022)
• CUHK Vice-Chancellor HKPFS Scholarship (2022)
• Phi Beta Kappa (2020)
• Juli Plant Grainger Academic Excellence Scholarship in Economics (2019)
• UW-Madison Undergraduate Scholarship for Summer Study (2019, 2020)

Working Experience

• Research Assistant (December 2021 – April 2022)
  • Department of Information Systems, Business Statistics and Operations Management, School of Business and Management, Hong Kong University of Science and Technology
  • Supervisor: Prof. Yi Yang
• Financial NLP Intern (July 2021 – October 2021)
  • Global Markets Department, China Merchants Bank, Shanghai, China
• Research Assistant (August 2020 – July 2021)
  • Supervisor: Prof. Jungyeul Park
• Lab Assistant (February 2019 – May 2020)
  • Second Language Acquisition Lab (SLA Lab), Department of English, University of Wisconsin–Madison
  • Supervisor: Prof. Jacee Cho

Teaching Experience

• Teaching Assistant (September 2022 – April 2024)
  • The Chinese University of Hong Kong
  • Courses:
    • LING2006 Semantics (Spring 2024)
    • LING2005 Syntax I (Fall 2023, Spring 2023)
    • LING3204 Second Language Acquisition (Fall 2022)
• Language Tutor (February 2018 – May 2020)
  • Greater University Tutoring Services (GUTS), University of Wisconsin–Madison
  • Language: Mandarin Chinese

Talks

• Yige Chen. Understanding the Semantic Representation of Korean Mixed Script in Language Models. To be presented at the 30th Annual Conference of the International Association of Chinese Linguistics (IACL-30). Yonsei University, Seoul, South Korea. 2024.

Academic Service

• Reviewer: Generative Linguistics in the Old World in Asia, Annual Conference of the International Association of Chinese Linguistics

Skills

• Operating Systems: Windows, Linux, macOS
• Programming: Java, Python (NumPy, pandas, PyTorch, Transformers), MATLAB, Visual Basic, STATA, R, SQL, MongoDB
• Software: Microsoft Office (Word, Excel, PowerPoint), LaTeX, Maple, Praat, E-Prime, Adobe Photoshop, Adobe Audition
• Languages: Wu Chinese (native), Mandarin Chinese and English (fluent), Korean (intermediate), Japanese, Spanish and Cantonese (basic), Classical Chinese (fluent in written language)