Zhuoxuan Ju


2025

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DeDisCo at the DISRPT 2025 Shared Task: A System for Discourse Relation Classification
Zhuoxuan Ju | Jingni Wu | Abhishek Purushothama | Amir Zeldes
Proceedings of the 4th Shared Task on Discourse Relation Parsing and Treebanking (DISRPT 2025)

This paper presents DeDisCo, Georgetown University’s entry in the DISRPT 2025 shared task on discourse relation classification. We test two approaches, using an mt5-based encoder and a decoder based approach using the openly available Qwen model. We also experiment on training with augmented dataset for low-resource languages using matched data translated automatically from English, as well as using some additional linguistic features inspired by entries in previous editions of the Shared Task. Our system achieves a macro-accuracy score of 71.28, and we provide some interpretation and error analysis for our results.

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UD-English-CHILDES: A Collected Resource of Gold and Silver Universal Dependencies Trees for Child Language Interactions
Xiulin Yang | Zhuoxuan Ju | Lanni Bu | Zoey Liu | Nathan Schneider
Proceedings of the Eighth Workshop on Universal Dependencies (UDW, SyntaxFest 2025)

CHILDES is a widely used resource of transcribed child and child-directed speech. This paper introduces UD-English-CHILDES, the first officially released Universal Dependencies (UD) treebank. It is derived from previously dependency-annotated CHILDES data, which we harmonize to follow unified annotation principles. The gold-standard trees encompass utterances sampled from 11 children and their caregivers, totaling over 48K sentences (236K tokens). We validate these gold-standard annotations under the UD v2 framework and provide an additional 1M silver-standard sentences, offering a consistent resource for computational and linguistic research.