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# Junyi Jessy Li

5 paper cards in Mova's library · 2020–2025

Junyi Jessy Li wrote 5 of the papers Mova reads, in 2020–2025, most of them on [Discourse analysis](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/docs/papers/topics/discourse-analysis/), [Dependency parsing](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/docs/papers/topics/dependency-parsing/); often with [Greg Durrett](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/docs/papers/authors/greg-durrett/), [Yating Wu](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/docs/papers/authors/yating-wu/), [Kyle Mahowald](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/docs/papers/authors/kyle-mahowald/).

[OpenAlex](https://openalex.org/A5021057186) · [ORCID](https://orcid.org/0000-0002-2550-5262) · [**h-index 22**](https://openalex.org/authors/A5021057186) · [1875 citations](https://openalex.org/authors/A5021057186) · [111 works](https://openalex.org/works?filter=author.id:A5021057186) — openalex, 2026-10-18

The profile is the library's match of the name; two people with one name are not always told apart.

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Topics: [Discourse analysis](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/docs/papers/topics/discourse-analysis/) 3 · [Dependency parsing](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/docs/papers/topics/dependency-parsing/) 1

## Papers

1. **[Is It \textit JUST Semantics? A Case Study of Discourse Particle Understanding in LLMs](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/docs/papers/sheffield-2025-is-it-textit-just-semantics/)** *(2025)* The English discourse particle "just" has several senses: exclusive ("Betsy just eats chicken nuggets"), temporal ("just arrived"), unelaboratory ("Fido is just a dog"), unexplanatory ("the lights just turn on and off") and emphatic ("just delicious").
2. **[Discourse Analysis via Questions and Answers: Parsing Dependency Structures of Questions Under Discussion](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/docs/papers/ko-2023-discourse-analysis-questions-answers-parsing/)** *(2023)* The paper builds the first parser for QUD dependency structures: every sentence after the first gets an anchor sentence earlier in the document and a free-form question, raised by the anchor, that the sentence answers.
3. **[Elaborative Simplification as Implicit Questions Under Discussion](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/docs/papers/wu-2023-elaborative-simplification-as-implicit-questions/)** *(2023)* When editors simplify news for children (Newsela), they often add sentences that explain rather than shorten.
4. **[QUDeval: The Evaluation of Questions Under Discussion Discourse Parsing](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/docs/papers/wu-2023-qudeval-evaluation-questions-under-discussion/)** *(2023)* A QUD dependency parse links each answer sentence to an earlier anchor sentence by an implicit question; evaluating such free-form questions has been manual.
5. **[Inquisitive Question Generation for High Level Text Comprehension](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/docs/papers/ko-2020-inquisitive-question-generation-high-level/)** *(2020)* INQUISITIVE is a set of about 19K questions that crowd workers asked while reading the first five sentences of 1,500 news articles one sentence at a time, each question tied to the span it is about and checked not to be answered already by the earlier text.

## Co-authors (13)

- [Greg Durrett](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/docs/papers/authors/greg-durrett/) ×3
- [Yating Wu](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/docs/papers/authors/yating-wu/) ×3
- [Kyle Mahowald](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/docs/papers/authors/kyle-mahowald/) ×2
- [Wei-Jen Ko](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/docs/papers/authors/wei-jen-ko/) ×2
- [William Sheffield](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/docs/papers/authors/william-sheffield/) ×2
- Ashwini Deo
- Cutter Dalton
- Dananjay Srinivas
- Kanishka Misra
- Ritika Mangla
- Te-yuan Chen
- [Valentina Pyatkin](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/docs/papers/authors/valentina-pyatkin/)
- Yiyan Huang
- [← previous Juntao Yu](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/docs/papers/authors/juntao-yu/)
- [next → Juri Ganitkevitch](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/docs/papers/authors/juri-ganitkevitch/)
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