I am a third-year Ph.D. student in the Department of Linguistics at the Ohio State University, working with William Schuler and Michael White. My research interests lie in the computational modeling of human sentence processing and natural language structures. I am specifically interested in adopting cognitively/linguistically motivated methods in studying these areas. You can reach me at: lin.4434@osu.edu (lin DOT 4434 AT osu DOT edu).
Some non-academic information about me: I was born and raised in Taiwan. I grew up in Hsinchu, a windy city where bangs and umbrellas don't function properly. I'm a huge boba lover and I'm always interested in learning about good boba places!
Surprisal from Larger Transformer-based Language Models Predicts fMRI Data More Poorly
@inproceedings{lin2026surprisal,
title = {Surprisal from Larger Transformer-based Language Models Predicts {fMRI} Data More Poorly},
author = {Lin, Yi-Chien and Schuler, William},
booktitle = {Proceedings of the 19th Conference of the European Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics (Volume 2: Short Papers)},
pages = {179--186},
year = {2026},
address = {Rabat, Morocco},
publisher = {Association for Computational Linguistics}
}Vectors from Larger Language Models Predict Human Reading Time and fMRI Data More Poorly When Dimensionality Expansion Is Controlled
@article{lin2025vectors,
title = {Vectors from Larger Language Models Predict Human Reading Time and {fMRI} Data More Poorly When Dimensionality Expansion Is Controlled},
author = {Lin, Yi-Chien and Zhu, Hongao and Schuler, William},
journal = {arXiv preprint arXiv:2505.12196},
year = {2025}
}OSU CompLing at the GEM'24 Data-to-Text Task
@inproceedings{allen2024osu,
title = {{OSU} {C}omp{L}ing at the {GEM}{'}24 Data-to-Text Task},
author = {Allen, Alyssa and Lewis, Ashley and Lin, Yi-Chien and Kaumenova, Tomiris and White, Michael},
booktitle = {Proceedings of the 17th International Natural Language Generation Conference: Generation Challenges},
pages = {100--111},
year = {2024},
address = {Tokyo, Japan},
publisher = {Association for Computational Linguistics}
}Surprisal from Larger Transformer-based Language Models Predicts fMRI Data More Poorly
@inproceedings{lin2026surprisal,
title = {Surprisal from Larger Transformer-based Language Models Predicts {fMRI} Data More Poorly},
author = {Lin, Yi-Chien and Schuler, William},
booktitle = {Proceedings of the 19th Conference of the European Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics (Volume 2: Short Papers)},
pages = {179--186},
year = {2026},
address = {Rabat, Morocco},
publisher = {Association for Computational Linguistics}
}Vectors from Larger Language Models Predict Human Reading Time and fMRI Data More Poorly When Dimensionality Expansion Is Controlled
@article{lin2025vectors,
title = {Vectors from Larger Language Models Predict Human Reading Time and {fMRI} Data More Poorly When Dimensionality Expansion Is Controlled},
author = {Lin, Yi-Chien and Zhu, Hongao and Schuler, William},
journal = {arXiv preprint arXiv:2505.12196},
year = {2025}
}OSU CompLing at the GEM'24 Data-to-Text Task
@inproceedings{allen2024osu,
title = {{OSU} {C}omp{L}ing at the {GEM}{'}24 Data-to-Text Task},
author = {Allen, Alyssa and Lewis, Ashley and Lin, Yi-Chien and Kaumenova, Tomiris and White, Michael},
booktitle = {Proceedings of the 17th International Natural Language Generation Conference: Generation Challenges},
pages = {100--111},
year = {2024},
address = {Tokyo, Japan},
publisher = {Association for Computational Linguistics}
}Automatic Extraction of English Grammar Pattern Correction Rules
@inproceedings{shen2021automatic,
title = {Automatic Extraction of {English} Grammar Pattern Correction Rules},
author = {Shen, Kuan-Yu and Lin, Yi-Chien and Chang, Jason S.},
booktitle = {Proceedings of the 33rd Conference on Computational Linguistics and Speech Processing (ROCLING 2021)},
pages = {252--256},
year = {2021}
}Learning to Find Translation of Grammar Patterns in Parallel Corpus
@inproceedings{tuan2021learning,
title = {Learning to Find Translation of Grammar Patterns in Parallel Corpus},
author = {Tuan, Kai-Wen and Chen, Yi-Jyun and Lin, Yi-Chien and Kwok, Chun-Ho and Tu, Hai-Lun and Chang, Jason S.},
booktitle = {Proceedings of the 33rd Conference on Computational Linguistics and Speech Processing (ROCLING 2021)},
pages = {301--309},
year = {2021}
}ConSenses: Disambiguating Content Word Groups Based on Knowledge Base and Definition Embedding
@inproceedings{tuan2020consenses,
title = {{ConSenses}: Disambiguating Content Word Groups Based on Knowledge Base and Definition Embedding},
author = {Tuan, Kai-Wen and Lin, Yi-Chien and Chang, Jason S. and Lee, Kuan-Lin and Chen, Li-Kuang},
booktitle = {2020 International Conference on Technologies and Applications of Artificial Intelligence (TAAI)},
pages = {260--265},
year = {2020},
publisher = {IEEE}
}標註英中同步樣式文法之研究 (Annotating Synchronous Grammar Patterns across English and Chinese)
@inproceedings{yang2019annotating,
title = {標註英中同步樣式文法之研究 ({Annotating Synchronous Grammar Patterns across English and Chinese})},
author = {Yang, Ching-Yu Helen and Chen, Ying-Zhu and Chang, Jason S. and Lin, Yi-Chien and Tsai, Wei-Tien Dylan},
booktitle = {Proceedings of the 31st Conference on Computational Linguistics and Speech Processing (ROCLING 2019)},
pages = {424--433},
year = {2019},
address = {New Taipei City, Taiwan},
publisher = {The Association for Computational Linguistics and Chinese Language Processing (ACLCLP)}
}Ph.D. in Computational Linguistics — The Ohio State University
Advisors: William Schuler and Michael White
M.S. in Computational Linguistics — University of Washington
Thesis: Automatically Inferring Grammar Specifications for Valence-changing Verbal Morphology from Interlinear Glossed Text
Advisor: Emily M. Bender
B.A. in Foreign Languages and Literature — National Tsing Hua University
Graduate Research Assistant
Department of Linguistics · The Ohio State University · Columbus, OH
Research Assistant
Natural Language Processing Lab · National Tsing Hua University · Hsinchu, Taiwan
Linguistic Intern
Natural Language Processing Lab · National Tsing Hua University · Hsinchu, Taiwan
Linguistic Intern
Glossika · Taipei, Taiwan