AI for Paleography: A Toy Survey
Based on the actual research community, 1) this article will be written in Chinese, sincere apologies for any inconvenience caused; 2) this article will limit “ancient scripts” and “paleography” to...
Yiran Rex Ma
[ACL 2025] Pun2Pun: Benchmarking LLMs on Textual-Visual Chinese-English Pun Translation via Pragmatics Model and Linguistic Reasoning
Lost in Translation? When Puns Travel Between Languages We’ve all been there: a pun so clever it makes you groan and grin at the same time. But what happens when you try to translate that pun betw...
[ACL 2025] Do Androids Question Electric Sheep? A Multi-Agent Cognitive Simulation of Philosophical Reflection on Hybrid Table Reasoning
Do Androids Overthink Electric Sheep? Turns out, AI might be just like us when it comes to thinking too much. In my latest paper, I set up a “philosophical debate club” for language models—where ...
[IJCNN 2025] PanelTR: Zero-Shot Table Reasoning Through Multi-Agent Scientific Discussion
Ever wonder how AI can tackle complex table reasoning—like answering questions from financial reports or verifying facts in scientific papers—without any prior training? In this paper, PanelTR, I e...
[ArXiv] Contrastive Analysis of Constituent Order Preferences Within Adverbial Roles in English and Chinese News: A Large-Language-Model-Driven Approach
Decoding How English and Chinese News Tell Stories Differently Have you ever noticed how English and Chinese articles seem to organize information in fundamentally different ways? While an English...
Implementation of LLM-Based Multi-Agent Systems: A Toy Survey
By no means is the notion of “Agent”, which has long been discussed in AI research since early works like Society of Minds by Marvin Minsky, novel or peculiar to present days, let alone when extend...
My First Year with Computational Linguistics
How Did a Rural Child Find His Way to Linguistics? My journey diverges from the conventional path. I’ve always had a peculiar affinity for language—a trait that sets me apart from many who remain...
Attempt to Differentiate: NLP, Computational Linguistics, & Digital Humanities
Intro: “ACL is not an AI conference” “ACL is not an AI conference.” At ACL 2024, held in Bangkok, Thailand, this year’s ACL Chair, Emily M. Bender, put forth a highly controversial conclusion in h...
On LLM Humanities and Social Sciences
To begin with, I firmly believe that the future undoubtedly belongs to what is often referred to as “computational social science.” Here, “computational” specifically refers to large language mode...