Publications
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2026
Reframing Responsibility: Framing-Aware Event Causality Identification. Jin Zhao, Jiayi Yao, Xinrui Hu, and Nianwen Xue. Proceedings of the 64th Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL, Volume 1: Long Papers). PDF
Proceedings of the Seventh International Workshop on Designing Meaning Representations (DMR 2026). Jin Zhao, Claire Benet Post, and Elizabeth Hoefer (editors). The Seventh International Workshop on Designing Meaning Representations (DMR) @ LREC 2026, Palma de Mallorca, Spain. Proceedings
2025
Seeing the Same Story Differently: Framing-Divergent Event Coreference for Computational Framing Analysis. Jin Zhao, Xinrui Hu, and Nianwen Xue. Proceedings of the 2025 Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing (EMNLP). PDF
Beyond Benchmarks: Building a Richer Cross-Document Event Coreference Dataset with Decontextualization. Jin Zhao, Jingxuan Tu, Bingyang Ye, Xinrui Hu, Nianwen Xue, and James Pustejovsky. Proceedings of the 2025 Annual Conference of the Nations of the Americas Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics (NAACL). PDF Talk
Annotation of Chinese Light Verb Constructions within UMR. Jingyi Li, Jin Zhao, Nianwen Xue, and Shili Ge. Proceedings of the 23rd International Workshop on Treebanks and Linguistic Theories (TLT, SyntaxFest 2025). PDF
Proceedings of the 63rd Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics (Volume 4: Student Research Workshop). Jin Zhao, Mingyang Wang, and Zhu Liu (editors). Association for Computational Linguistics, 2025. Volume
2024
Media Attitude Detection via Framing Analysis with Events and their Relations. Jin Zhao, Jingxuan Tu, Han Du, and Nianwen Xue. Proceedings of the 2024 Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing (EMNLP). PDF
Chinese UMR annotation: Can LLMs help? Haibo Sun, Nianwen Xue, Jin Zhao, et al. Proceedings of the Fifth International Workshop on Designing Meaning Representations (DMR) @ LREC-COLING 2024. PDF
Building a Broad Infrastructure for Uniform Meaning Representations. Julia Bonn*, Matthew J. Buchholz*, … Jin Zhao*. (*equal contribution) Proceedings of LREC-COLING 2024. PDF
2023
Cross-Document Event Coreference Resolution: Instruct Humans or Instruct GPT? Jin Zhao, Nianwen Xue, and Bonan Min. Proceedings of the 27th Conference on Computational Natural Language Learning (CoNLL). PDF
UMR annotation of Chinese Verb compounds and related constructions. Haibo Sun, Yifan Zhu, Jin Zhao, and Nianwen Xue. Proceedings of the First International Workshop on Construction Grammars and NLP (CxGs+NLP, GURT/SyntaxFest 2023). PDF
Mapping AMR to UMR: Resources for Adapting Existing Corpora for Cross-Lingual Compatibility. Julia Bonn, Skatje Myers, …, Jin Zhao, et al. Proceedings of the 21st International Workshop on Treebanks and Linguistic Theories (TLT, GURT/SyntaxFest 2023). PDF
UMR-Writer 2.0: Incorporating a New Keyboard Interface and Workflow into UMR-Writer. Sijia Ge*, Jin Zhao*, Kristin Wright-Bettner, et al. (*equal contribution) Proceedings of the 17th Linguistic Annotation Workshop (LAW-XVII). PDF
UMR Annotation of Multiword Expressions. Julia Bonn*, Andrew Cowell*, … Jin Zhao*. (*equal contribution) Proceedings of the Fourth International Workshop on Designing Meaning Representations (DMR). PDF
2021
Factuality Assessment as Modal Dependency Parsing. Jiarui Yao, Haoling Qiu, Jin Zhao, Bonan Min, and Nianwen Xue. Proceedings of the 59th Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics and the 11th International Joint Conference on Natural Language Processing (ACL-IJCNLP, Volume 1: Long Papers). PDF
UMR-Writer: A Web Application for Annotating Uniform Meaning Representations. Jin Zhao, Nianwen Xue, Jens Van Gysel, and Jinho D. Choi. Proceedings of the 2021 Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing: System Demonstrations. PDF Tool