Assistant Professor
Department of Linguistics
The University of Texas at Austin
Office: RLP 4.728
I am an Assistant Professor in the Linguistics Department at The University of Texas at Austin where I work on computational linguistics and natural language processing. More specifically, my research focuses on discourse, pragmatics, and NLP in social contexts. I obtained my Ph.D. from the Department of Computer and Information Science at the University of Pennsylvania in 2017, advised by Ani Nenkova. Usually, I go by Jessy.
Some of the topics that I am currently researching include:
Elaborative Simplification: Content Addition and Explanation Generation in Text Simplification
Neha Srikanth and Junyi Jessy Li
ArXiv Preprint.
Deep Just-In-Time Inconsistency Detection Between Comments and Source Code
[bib, code and data]
Sheena Panthaplackel, Junyi Jessy Li, Milos Gligoric, and Raymond J. Mooney
The AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence (AAAI), to appear 2021
How to apply for financial aid: Exploring perplexity and jargon in texts for non-expert audiences
Laura Manor, Yiran Su, Zachary W. Taylor and Junyi Jessy Li
Society for Computation in Linguistics (SCiL), to appear 2021
Assessing Discourse Relations in Language Generation from GPT-2
[bib]
Wei-Jen Ko and Junyi Jessy Li
International Conference on Natural Language Generation (INLG), 2020
Inquisitive Question Generation for High Level Text Comprehension
[bib]
[data]
Wei-Jen Ko, Te-Yuan Chen, Yiyan Huang, Greg Durrett and Junyi Jessy Li
Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing (EMNLP), 2020
Help! Need Advice on Identifying Advice
[bib]
[code and data]
Venkata Subrahmanyan Govindarajan, Benjamin Chen, Rebecca Warholic, Katrin Erk and Junyi Jessy Li
Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing (EMNLP), 2020
On the Naturalness of Hardware Descriptions
[bib, code and data]
Jaeseong Lee, Pengyu Nie, Junyi Jessy Li, and Milos Gligoric
Symposium on the Foundations of Software Engineering (FSE), 2020
Detecting Perceived Emotions in Hurricane Disasters
[bib]
[code and data]
Shrey Desai, Cornelia Caragea and Junyi Jessy Li
Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL), 2020
Learning to Update Natural Language Comments Based on Code Changes
[bib]
[code and data]
Sheena Panthaplackel, Pengyu Nie, Milos Gligoric, Junyi Jessy Li and Raymond Mooney
Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL), 2020
An Annotated Dataset of Discourse Modes in Hindi Stories
[bib]
[data]
Swapnil Dhanwal, Hritwik Dutta, Hitesh Nankani, Nilay Shrivastava, Yaman Kumar, Junyi Jessy Li, Debanjan Mahata, Rakesh Gosangi, Haimin Zhang, Rajiv Ratn Shah and Amanda Stent
International Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC), 2020
Deep Generation of Coq Lemma Names Using Elaborated Terms
[bib, code and data]
Pengyu Nie, Karl Palmskog, Junyi Jessy Li and Milos Gligoric
International Joint Conference on Automated Reasoning (IJCAR), 2020
Learning to Format Coq Code Using Language Models
Pengyu Nie, Karl Palmskog, Junyi Jessy Li, and Milos Gligoric
The Coq Workshop, 2020
Discourse Level Factors for Sentence Deletion in Text Simplification
Yang Zhong, Chao Jiang, Wei Xu and Junyi Jessy Li
The AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence (AAAI), 2020
Associating Natural Language Comment and Source Code Entities
[bib, code and data]
Sheena Panthaplackel, Milos Gligoric, Raymond Mooney and Junyi Jessy Li
The AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence (AAAI), 2020
Adaptive Ensembling: Unsupervised Domain Adaptation for Political Document Analysis
[bib]
[code and data]
Shrey Desai, Barea Sinno, Alex Rosenfeld and Junyi Jessy Li
Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing (EMNLP), 2019
Unsupervised Adversarial Domain Adaptation for Implicit Discourse Relation Classification
[bib]
Hsin-Ping Huang and Junyi Jessy Li
Conference on Computational Natural Language Learning (CoNLL), 2019
A Framework for Writing Trigger-Action Todo Comments in Executable Format
[bib]
[code]
Pengyu Nie, Rishabh Rai, Junyi Jessy Li, Sarfraz Khurshid, Raymond Mooney and Milos Gligoric
Symposium on the Foundations of Software Engineering (FSE), 2019 (ACM SIGSOFT Distinguished Paper Award)
Evaluating Discourse in Structured Text Representations
[bib]
[code]
Elisa Ferracane, Greg Durrett, Junyi Jessy Li and Katrin Erk
Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL), short paper, 2019
Linguistically-Informed Specificity and Semantic Plausibility for Dialog Generation
[bib]
[code]
Wei-Jen Ko, Greg Durrett and Junyi Jessy Li
North American Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics: Human Language Technologies (NAACL), 2019
Plain English Summarization of Contracts
[bib]
[data]
Laura Manor and Junyi Jessy Li
NAACL Workshop on Natural Legal Language Processing (NLLP), 2019
From News to Medical: Cross-domain Discourse Segmentation
[bib]
[code and data]
Elisa Ferracane, Titan Page, Junyi Jessy Li and Katrin Erk
NAACL Workshop on Rhetorical Structure Theory and Related Formalisms (DISRPT), 2019
Domain Agnostic Real-Valued Specificity Prediction
[bib]
[code and data]
Wei-Jen Ko, Greg Durrett and Junyi Jessy Li
The AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence (AAAI), 2019
Predicting and Analyzing Language Specificity in Social Media Posts
[bib]
[code and data]
Yifan Gao, Yang Zhong, Daniel Preoţiuc-Pietro and Junyi Jessy Li
The AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence (AAAI), 2019
Why Swear? Analyzing and Inferring the Intentions of Vulgar Expressions
[bib]
[data]
[video by Isabel Cachola]
Eric Holgate, Isabel Cachola, Daniel Preoţiuc-Pietro and Junyi Jessy Li
Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing (EMNLP), 2018
Expressively vulgar: The socio-dynamics of vulgarity and its effects on sentiment analysis in social media
[bib]
[data/code]
Isabel Cachola, Eric Holgate, Daniel Preoţiuc-Pietro and Junyi Jessy Li
International Conference on Computational Linguistics (COLING), 2018 (Area Chair Favorite)
A Corpus with Multi-Level Annotations of Patients, Interventions and Outcomes to Support Language Processing for Medical Literature
[bib]
[webpage]
Benjamin Nye, Junyi Jessy Li, Roma Patel, Yinfei Yang, Iain Marshall, Ani Nenkova and Byron Wallace
Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL), 2018
Natural Language Processing and Program Analysis for Supporting Todo Comments as Software Evolves
[bib]
Pengyu Nie, Junyi Jessy Li, Sarfraz Khurshid, Raymond Mooney, and Milos Gligoric
AAAI Workshop on NLP for Software Engineering (NL4SE), 2018
Aggregating and Predicting Sequence Labels from Crowd Annotations
[bib]
[code]
[data]
An Thanh Nguyen, Byron Wallace, Junyi Jessy Li, Ani Nenkova, and Matthew Lease
Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL), 2017
Autism Quotient Scores Modulate the Perception and Production of Text Specificity in Adult Females
Junyi Jessy Li, Julia Parish-Morris, Leila Bateman and Ani Nenkova
International Meeting for Autism Research (IMFAR), abstract, 2017
From Discourse Structure to Text Specificity: Studies of Coherence Preferences
Junyi Jessy Li
Ph.D. thesis, University of Pennsylvania, 2017
The Role of Discourse Units in Near-Extractive Summarization
[bib]
[code]
[data]
Junyi Jessy Li, Kapil Thadani and Amanda Stent
Special Interest Group on Discourse and Dialogue (SIGDIAL), 2016 (Best Paper Nominee)
The Instantiation Discourse Relation: A Corpus Analysis of Its Properties and Improved Detection
[bib]
Junyi Jessy Li and Ani Nenkova
North American Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics: Human Language Technologies (NAACL), short paper, 2016
Improving the Annotation of Sentence Specificity
[bib]
[data]
Junyi Jessy Li, Bridget O’Daniel, Yi Wu, Wenli Zhao, Ani Nenkova
International Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC), 2016
Estimating Text Intelligibility via Information Packaging Analysis
[bib]
Junyi Jessy Li,
AAAI/SIGAI Doctoral Consortium at AAAI 2016
Detecting Content-Heavy Sentences: A Cross-Language Case Study
[bib]
Junyi Jessy Li and Ani Nenkova
Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing (EMNLP), 2015
Fast and Accurate Prediction of Sentence Specificity
[bib]
[code]
Junyi Jessy Li and Ani Nenkova
The AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence (AAAI), 2015
Cross-lingual Discourse Relation Analysis: A corpus study and a semi-supervised classification system
[bib]
Junyi Jessy Li, Marine Carpuat and Ani Nenkova
International Conference on Computational Linguistics (COLING), 2014
Assessing the Discourse Factors that Influence the Quality of Machine Translation
[bib]
Junyi Jessy Li, Marine Carpuat and Ani Nenkova
Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL), short paper, 2014
Addressing Class Imbalance for Improved Recognition of Implicit Discourse Relations
[bib]
Junyi Jessy Li and Ani Nenkova
Special Interest Group on Discourse and Dialogue (SIGDIAL), 2014
Reducing Sparsity Improves the Recognition of Implicit Discourse Relations
[bib]
Junyi Jessy Li and Ani Nenkova
Special Interest Group on Discourse and Dialogue (SIGDIAL), 2014