Publications

All the articles I've posted.

• ConTempo: A Unified Temporally Contrastive Framework for Temporal Relation Extraction

  Jingcheng Niu, Saifei Liao, Victoria Ng, Simon De Montigny and Gerald Penn.
  [ACL Anthology]

  [BibTeX ]
  ACL 2024 Findings

  @inproceedings{niu-etal-2024-contempo,
      title = "{C}on{T}empo: A Unified Temporally Contrastive Framework for Temporal Relation Extraction",
      author = "Niu, Jingcheng  and
        Liao, Saifei  and
        Ng, Victoria  and
        De Montigny, Simon  and
        Penn, Gerald",
      editor = "Ku, Lun-Wei  and
        Martins, Andre  and
        Srikumar, Vivek",
      booktitle = "Findings of the Association for Computational Linguistics ACL 2024",
      month = aug,
      year = "2024",
      address = "Bangkok, Thailand and virtual meeting",
      publisher = "Association for Computational Linguistics",
      url = "https://aclanthology.org/2024.findings-acl.89",
      pages = "1521--1533",
  }
  

• What does the Knowledge Neuron Thesis Have to do with Knowledge?

  Jingcheng Niu, Andrew Liu, Zining Zhu and Gerald Penn.
  [OpenReview]

  [Code ]

  [BibTeX ]
  ICLR 2024 (spotlight)

  @inproceedings{niu2024what,
    title={What does the Knowledge Neuron Thesis Have to do with Knowledge?},
    author={Jingcheng Niu and Andrew Liu and Zining Zhu and Gerald Penn},
    booktitle={The Twelfth International Conference on Learning Representations},
    year={2024},
    url={https://openreview.net/forum?id=2HJRwwbV3G}
  }
  

• Discourse Information for Document-Level Temporal Dependency Parsing

  Jingcheng Niu, Victoria Ng, Erin E. Rees, Simon De Montigny and Gerald Penn.
  [ACL Anthology]

  [Code ]

  [Poster ]

  [BibTeX ]
  CODI 2023 @ ACL

  @inproceedings{niu-etal-2023-discourse,
    title = "Discourse Information for Document-Level Temporal Dependency Parsing",
    author = "Niu, Jingcheng  and
      Ng, Victoria  and
      Rees, Erin  and
      De Montigny, Simon  and
      Penn, Gerald",
    booktitle = "Proceedings of the 4th Workshop on Computational Approaches to Discourse (CODI 2023)",
    month = jul,
    year = "2023",
    address = "Toronto, Canada",
    publisher = "Association for Computational Linguistics"
  }
  

• Using Roark-Hollingshead Distance to Probe BERT's Syntactic Competence

  Jingcheng Niu, Wenjie Lu, Eric Corlett and Gerald Penn.
  [ACL Anthology]

  [Code ]

  [Poster ]

  [BibTeX ]
  BlackBox 2022 @ EMNLP

  @inproceedings{niu-etal-2022-using,
    title = "Using {Roark}-{Hollingshead} Distance to Probe {BERT}'s Syntactic Competence",
    author = "Niu, Jingcheng and
     Lu, Wenjie and
     Corlett, Eric and
     Penn, Gerald",
    booktitle = "Proceedings of the Fifth BlackboxNLP Workshop on Analyzing and Interpreting Neural Networks for NLP",
    month = dec,
    year = "2022",
    address = "Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates",
    publisher = "Association for Computational Linguistics"
  }
  

• Does BERT Rediscover a Classical NLP Pipeline?

  Jingcheng Niu, Wenjie Lu and Gerald Penn.
  [ACL Anthology]

  [Code ]

  [Poster ]

  [BibTeX ]
  COLING 2022 (oral)

  @inproceedings{niu-etal-2022-bert,
     title = "Does {BERT} Rediscover a Classical {NLP} Pipeline?",
     author = "Niu, Jingcheng and
      Lu, Wenjie and
      Penn, Gerald",
     booktitle = "Proceedings of the 29th International Conference on Computational Linguistics",
     month = oct,
     year = "2022",
     address = "Gyeongju, Republic of Korea",
     publisher = "International Committee on Computational Linguistics"
  }
  

• Chinese Quantifier Scope, Concord, and Lexical Resource Semantic

  Jingcheng Niu, Xinyu Kang, Pascal Hohmann and Gerald Penn.
  [HPSG Proceedings]

  [Talk ]

  [BibTeX ]
  HPSG 2022

  @inproceedings{nkhp:2022,
    author = {Niu, Jingcheng and Kang, Xinyu and Hohmann, Pascal and Penn, Gerald},
    title = {Chinese quantifier scope, concord, and {Lexical Resource Semantics}},
    booktitle = {{Proceedings of the 29th International Conference on Head-Driven Phrase Structure Grammar, Online (Nagoya\slash Tokyo)}},
    editor = {Müller, Stefan and Winckel, Elodie},
    OPTissn = {1535-1793},
    doi = {10.21248/hpsg.2022.6},
    publisher = {University Library},
    address = {Frankfurt/Main},
    pages = {102--119},
    year = {2022}
  }
  

• Statistically Evaluating Social Media Sentiment Trends towards COVID-19 Non-Pharmaceutical Interventions with Event Studies

  Jingcheng Niu, Erin E. Rees, Victoria Ng and Gerald Penn.
  [ACL Anthology]

  [Code ]

  [Poster ]

  [BibTeX ]
  SMM4H 2021 @ NAACL

  @inproceedings{niu-etal-2021-statistically,
     title = "Statistically Evaluating Social Media Sentiment Trends towards {COVID}-19 Non-Pharmaceutical Interventions with Event Studies",
     author = "Niu, Jingcheng and
      Rees, Erin and
      Ng, Victoria and
      Penn, Gerald",
     booktitle = "Proceedings of the Sixth Social Media Mining for Health ({\#}SMM4H) Workshop and Shared Task",
     month = jun,
     year = "2021",
     address = "Mexico City, Mexico",
     publisher = "Association for Computational Linguistics"
  }
  

• Grammaticality and Language Modelling

  Jingcheng Niu and Gerald Penn.
  [ACL Anthology]

  [Talk ]

  [BibTeX ]
  Eval4NLP 2020 @ EMNLP

  @inproceedings{niu-penn-2020-grammaticality,
     title = "Grammaticality and Language Modelling",
     author = "Niu, Jingcheng and Penn, Gerald",
     booktitle = "Proceedings of the First Workshop on Evaluation and Comparison of NLP Systems",
     month = nov,
     year = "2020",
     address = "Online",
     publisher = "Association for Computational Linguistics"
  }
  

• Temporal Histories of Epidemic Events (THEE): A Case Study in Temporal Annotation for Public Health

  Jingcheng Niu, Victoria Ng, Gerald Penn and Erin E. Rees.
  [ACL Anthology]

  [BibTeX ]
  LREC 2020

  @inproceedings{niu-etal-2020-temporal,
    title = "Temporal Histories of Epidemic Events ({THEE}): A Case Study in Temporal Annotation for Public Health",
    author = "Niu, Jingcheng  and
      Ng, Victoria  and
      Penn, Gerald  and
      Rees, Erin E.",
    booktitle = "Proceedings of the Twelfth Language Resources and Evaluation Conference",
    month = may,
    year = "2020",
    address = "Marseille, France",
    publisher = "European Language Resources Association"
  }
  

• Artificial intelligence and extracting information from various media sources

  Victoria Ng, Erin E. Rees, Jingcheng Niu, Abdelhamid Zaghlool, Homeira Ghiasbeglou and Adrian Verster.
  [ACL Anthology]

  [Code ]

  [Poster ]

  [BibTeX ]
  CCDR 2020

  @article{ng2020application,
    title={Application of natural language processing algorithms for extracting information from news articles in event-based surveillance},
    author={Ng, Victoria and Rees, Erin E and Niu, Jingcheng and Zaghool, Abdelhamid and Ghiasbeglou, Homeira and Verster, Adrian},
    journal={Canada Communicable Disease Report},
    volume={46},
    number={6},
    pages={186--191},
    year={2020},
    publisher={Public Health Agency of Canada}
  }
  

• Rationally Reappraising ATIS-based Dialogue Systems

  Jingcheng Niu and Gerald Penn.
  [ACL Anthology]

  [Poster ]

  [BibTeX ]
  ACL 2019

  @inproceedings{niu-penn-2019-rationally,
      title = "Rationally Reappraising {ATIS}-based Dialogue Systems",
      author = "Niu, Jingcheng  and
        Penn, Gerald",
      editor = "Korhonen, Anna  and
        Traum, David  and
        M{\`a}rquez, Llu{\'\i}s",
      booktitle = "Proceedings of the 57th Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics",
      month = jul,
      year = "2019",
      address = "Florence, Italy",
      publisher = "Association for Computational Linguistics",
      url = "https://aclanthology.org/P19-1550"
  }```