About me

I am a PhD student at the Computational Linguistics Group @UofT. My advisor is Professor Gerald Penn. 牛靖程 is my name in Chinese.

I am interested in temporal information extraction and investigating the connection between language modelling and syntax.

Pro bono: I am committing 1~2 hours per week to host pro bono office hours. Please email me if you have any questions related to (and not limited to) research, graduate application or future career.
I am inspired by my friends Huan Ling and Jun Gao who have committed to address the information asymmetry between senior and junior students. I will try my best to provide advice, mentorship, or discussion on any topic to anyone, especially people from under-represented groups.

Recent Publications

Full publication list here:

Publications

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

    Jingcheng Niu, Wenjie Lu, Eric Corlett and Gerald Penn

    [paper ] [poster ] [code ] [bibtex ]

    BlackboxNLP 2022 @ EMNLP 2022

  • Does BERT Rediscover a Classical NLP Pipeline?

    Jingcheng Niu, Wenjie Lu and Gerald Penn

    [paper ] [talk ] [code ] [plots & results ] [bibtex ]

    COLING 2022

  • Chinese Quantifier Scope, Concord, and Lexical Resource Semantics

    Jingcheng Niu, Xinyu Kang, Pascal Hohmann and Gerald Penn

    [paper ] [talk ] [bibtex ]

    HPSG 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

    [paper ] [code ] [slides ] [bibtex ]

    SMM4H 2021 @ NAACL 2021

  • Grammaticality and Language Modelling

    Jingcheng Niu and Gerald Penn

    [paper ] [talk ] [slides ] [bibtex ]

    Eval4NLP 2020 @ EMNLP 2020

  • Artificial intelligence and extracting information from various media sources

    Victoria Ng, Erin E. Rees, Jingcheng Niu, Abdelhamid Zaghlool, Homeira Ghiasbeglou, Adrian Verster

    [paper ] [bibtex ]

    Canada Communicable Disease Report

  • 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

    [paper ] [data ] [bibtex ]

    LREC 2020

  • Rationally Reappraising ATIS-based Dialogue Systems

    Jingcheng Niu and Gerald Penn

    [paper ] [poster ] [data ] [bibtex ]

    ACL 2019