Zipf’s Law for Discourse Markers in Spoken Mongolian
Bao, Minna; Yan, Jianwei & Huang, Dabhurbayar. (2025). "Zipf's Law for Discourse Markers in Spoken Mongolian." Journal of Quantitative Linguistics. 32(2), 166-180.
CV
Education
- Ph.D in Version Control Theory, GitHub University, 2018 (expected)
- M.S. in Jekyll, GitHub University, 2014
- B.S. in GitHub, GitHub University, 2012
Work experience
- Spring 2024: Academic Pages Collaborator
- GitHub University
- Duties includes: Updates and improvements to template
- Supervisor: The Users
- Fall 2015: Research Assistant
- GitHub University
- Duties included: Merging pull requests
- Supervisor: Professor Hub
- Summer 2015: Research Assistant
- GitHub University
- Duties included: Tagging issues
- Supervisor: Professor Git
Skills
- Skill 1
- Skill 2
- Sub-skill 2.1
- Sub-skill 2.2
- Sub-skill 2.3
- Skill 3
Publications
The complexity trade-off between morphological richness and word order freedom in Romance languages: A quantitative perspective
Liu, Siqi; Yan, Jianwei & Liu, Haitao. (2025). "The complexity trade-off between morphological richness and word order freedom in Romance languages." Zeitschrift für romanische Philologie. 141(2), 323-349.
Modeling the law of abbreviation in classical, modern, and ChatGPT-generated Chinese: A power-law analysis of structural economy
Yan, Jianwei & Chen, Heng. (2025). "Modeling the law of abbreviation in classical, modern, and ChatGPT-generated Chinese." Proceedings of QUASY, SyntaxFest 2025. 56-62.
Humanities data in R: exploring networks, geospatial data, images, and text (Book Review)
Li, Qidi & Yan, Jianwei. (2025). "Humanities data in R: exploring networks, geospatial data, images, and text (Review)." Digital Scholarship in the Humanities.
Tracing the shapes of adventure: a subject-based interpretation of emotional arcs
Yan, Jianwei & Chen, Yixi. (2025). "Tracing the shapes of adventure: a subject-based interpretation of emotional arcs." Digital Scholarship in the Humanities. 40(3), 986-1002.
Discourse markers’ role in syntactic complexity of sentence structure
Dai, Zheyuan & Yan, Jianwei. (2025). "Discourse markers' role in syntactic complexity of sentence structure." Mathematical Modelling in Linguistics and Text Analysis. 104.
Defining digital humanities and examining its relationship with linguistics through the lens of Digital Scholarship in the Humanities
Yan, Jianwei; Li, Qidi & Liu, Haitao. (2025). "Defining digital humanities and examining its relationship with linguistics." Digital Scholarship in the Humanities. 40(1), 354-380.
Basic word order typology revisited: a crosslinguistic quantitative study based on UD and WALS
Yan, Jianwei & Liu, Haitao. (2024). "Basic word order typology revisited: a crosslinguistic quantitative study based on UD and WALS." Linguistics Vanguard. 9(1), 73-85.
Revisiting English written VP-ellipsis and VP-substitution: A dependency-based analysis
Dai, Zheyuan; Liu, Haitao & Yan, Jianwei. (2024). "Revisiting English written VP-ellipsis and VP-substitution: A dependency-based analysis." Linguistics Vanguard. 9(1), 13-23.
The current state and prominent features of quantitative linguistics through the lens of QUALICO 2023: A conference report
Yan, Jianwei. (2024). "The current state and prominent features of quantitative linguistics through the lens of QUALICO 2023." Journal of Quantitative Linguistics. 31(1), 54-67.
The development of phrase-frames in EFL learners’ essays: Variability, structures, and functions
Yan, Jianwei; Li, Qidi & Jiang, Jingyang. (2024). "The development of phrase-frames in EFL learners' essays." International Journal of Applied Linguistics. 34(4), 1689-1708.
Investigating the Hierarchical Order of Function Words in SUD and UD Treebanks
Yan, Jianwei & Liu, Haitao. (2024). "Investigating the Hierarchical Order of Function Words in SUD and UD Treebanks." The Status of Function Words in Dependency Grammar. 43, 629-666.
Exploring the Role of Sentence-Final Particles in Spoken Cantonese: A Comparative Study Based on the POS-based Dependency Networks
Chen, Yixi & Yan, Jianwei. (2024). "Exploring the Role of Sentence-Final Particles in Spoken Cantonese." Glottometrics. 57, 21-39.
基于高频句法关系依存方向的语序类型计量研究
阎建玮; 刘海涛. (2023). "基于高频句法关系依存方向的语序类型计量研究." 语言文字应用. (2), 79-90.
词类转化与语言形态类型关系的定量研究
邵斌; 阎建玮; 郑憬. (2023). "词类转化与语言形态类型关系的定量研究." 外语教学与研究. 55(4), 497-508.
Igor Mel’čuk. 2021. Ten studies in Dependency Syntax (Book Review)
Yan, Jianwei & Yih, Tsy. (2023). "Igor Mel'čuk. 2021. Ten studies in Dependency Syntax (Review)." Canadian Journal of Linguistics. 68(4), 622-627.
Corpus linguistics for writing development: A guide for research (Book Review)
Li, Qidi & Yan, Jianwei. (2023). "Corpus linguistics for writing development: A guide for research (Review)." System.
Text Mining with R: A Tidy Approach (Book Review)
Yan, Jianwei. (2022). "Text Mining with R: A Tidy Approach, by Julia Silge and David Robinson." Natural Language Engineering. 28(1), 137-139.
How syntactic analysis influences the calculation of mean dependency distance: Evidence from the enhanced dependency representation
Yih, Tsy; Yan, Jianwei & Liu, Haitao. (2022). "How syntactic analysis influences the calculation of mean dependency distance." Proceedings of PACLIC 36. 83-92.
Semantic roles or syntactic functions: The effects of annotation scheme on the results of dependency measures
Yan, Jianwei & Liu, Haitao. (2022). "Semantic roles or syntactic functions: The effects of annotation scheme on the results of dependency measures." Studia Linguistica. 76(2), 406-428.
Assessing the AWE-Based Teacher-Assisted Feedback Model for College English Writing Teaching at the Application-Oriented University
Zhou, Xianwu & Yan, Jianwei. (2022). "Assessing the AWE-Based Teacher-Assisted Feedback Model for College English Writing Teaching." International Conference on Computer Science and Education. 421-429. Springer.
Quantitative analysis of Chinese and English verb valencies based on probabilistic valency pattern theory
Yan, Jianwei & Liu, Haitao. (2021). "Quantitative analysis of Chinese and English verb valencies based on probabilistic valency pattern theory." Workshop on Chinese Lexical Semantics. 152-162. Springer.
Probability distribution of dependency distance based on a treebank of Japanese EFL learners’ interlanguage
Li, Wenping & Yan, Jianwei. (2021). "Probability distribution of dependency distance based on a treebank of Japanese EFL learners' interlanguage." Journal of Quantitative Linguistics. 28(2), 172-186.
Morphology and word order in Slavic languages: Insights from annotated corpora
Yan, Jianwei & Liu, Haitao. (2021). "Morphology and word order in Slavic languages: Insights from annotated corpora." Вопросы языкознания. (4), 131-159.
Which annotation scheme is more expedient to measure syntactic difficulty and cognitive demand?
Yan, Jianwei & Liu, Haitao. (2019). "Which annotation scheme is more expedient to measure syntactic difficulty and cognitive demand?" Proceedings of the first workshop on quantitative syntax (Quasy, SyntaxFest 2019). 16-24.
A quantitative analysis on a literary genre essay’s syntactic features
Wang, Yaqin & Yan, Jianwei. (2018). "A quantitative analysis on a literary genre essay's syntactic features." Quantitative analysis of dependency structures. 295-314. De Gruyter Mouton.
The distribution of dependency relations in Great Expectations and Jane Eyre
Yan, Jianwei & Liu, Siqi. (2017). "The distribution of dependency relations in Great Expectations and Jane Eyre." Glottometrics. 37, 13-33.
Talks
基于标注树库的跨语言形态与语序关系研究
Conference talk at "语序类型学新进展"研讨会，浙江大学文学院文学观通学社, Hangzhou, China
A Power-Law Analysis of Word Length and Frequency in Classical, Modern, and AI Chinese: The Structural Economy of Chinese Language
Conference talk at The International Workshop on Corpus and Computational Linguistics, University of Ostrava, Czech Republic
The complexity trade-off between morphological richness and word order freedom in Romance languages: A quantitative analysis
Conference talk at 语言计量与数字人文暨第七届计量语言学学术研讨会，南京师范大学&南京农业大学&北京语言大学, Nanjing, China
A Corpus-Based Study on the Diachronic Changes of Morphological Richness and Word Order Freedom in Romance Languages
Conference talk at The 15th International Corpus Linguistics Conference CILC2024, Universidad de Las Palmas de Gran Canaria, Spain
The Trade-off Relation Between Morphological and Syntactic Complexity in Romance Languages
Conference talk at The International Workshop on Corpus and Computational Linguistics, University of Ostrava, Czech Republic
优势语序与语序类型：基于标注树库的量化研究
Conference talk at 第七届广外应用语言学论坛国际研讨会"语言计量研究"工作坊暨第六届计量语言学学术研讨会，广东外语外贸大学&北京语言大学, Guangzhou, China
Discourse Markers’ Role in Syntactic Complexity of Sentence Structure: A Distance-Driven Quantitative Case Study Based on Ted Talks
Conference talk at QUALICO 2023 (12th International Quantitative Linguistics Conference), University of Lausanne, Lausanne, Switzerland
话心声，同成长——科研分享
Invited talk at "党建+"系列活动暨"格物致知"系列活动第二场"优秀青年教师成长对话"分享会，浙江大学, Hangzhou, China
数据驱动的语言类型研究——基于通用依存树库的语序共性探索
Conference talk at "数据驱动的语言教育与文化传播研究"青年学者论坛暨第五届计量语言学学术研讨会，华侨大学&北京语言大学, Online
语言学与数据科学
Invited talk at 浙江财经大学, Hangzhou, China
计量语言学与翻译研究
Invited talk at "求是"译学讲座系列（第一期），浙江大学, Hangzhou, China
Possibility of Indicating the Evolution of the Chinese Language Through Probability Distribution of Dependency Distance
Conference talk at QUALICO 2021: Quantitative Approaches to Universality and Individuality in Language, National Institute for Japanese Language and Linguistics, Tokyo, Japan (Online)
斯拉夫语族语言形态与语序的动态变化与启示
Conference talk at "数字人文视域下的语言文学研究"青年学者论坛暨第四届计量语言学学术研讨会，北方民族大学, Yinchuan, China
基于大规模树库的计量语序类型学研究
Conference talk at 纪念王德春先生逝世十周年暨当代语言学新视野国际研讨会，上海外国语大学, Shanghai, China
Quantitative Analysis of Chinese and English Verb Valencies Based on Probabilistic Valency Pattern Theory
Conference talk at The 22nd Chinese Lexical Semantics Workshop (CLSW2021), Nanjing Normal University, Nanjing, China (Online)
Which Annotation Scheme Is More Expedient to Measure Syntactic Difficulty and Cognitive Demand?
Conference talk at Syntaxfest (Quasy: The Workshop on Quantitative Syntax), Université Sorbonne Nouvelle Paris 3, Paris, France
Teaching
Service and leadership
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