Zhidong Ling
E-mail : shito[at]komachi.live
E-mail : shito[at]komachi.live
Zhidong Ling (Other name variations: Shito Ryo; Lexus-D)
Hitotsubashi University PhD 2st year Student in Social Computational Linguistics Group
Languages:
Japanese (Fluent / Speak a lot)
Chinese (Native, but not very good)
Changzhou Dialect (Yangjingbang)
Nanjing Dialect (Slip of the tongue)
Sichuan Dialect (A little bit)
English (TOEIC 840, TOEFL 73, Speak a lot)
Korean (Stuck in the Day 1 loop)
Lexical Semantic Change Detection
Detection methods / Evaluation of semantic change detection
Lexical Semantic Change Analysis
Classification of semantic change
Analysis using LLMs
Representation of word meanings
Dictionary and Corpus Construction
(I want to build a corpus of my hometown dialect at the NINJAL corpus level, but it requires a lot of effort...)
Side Projects:
LLM-as-a-Judge
Document Simplification
Journal
Zhidong Ling, Taichi Aida, Teruaki Oka, and Mamoru Komachi. Construction and Analysis of Evaluation Dataset for Japanese Lexical Semantic Change Detection. Journal of Natural Language Processing, Vol.31, No.4. December, 2024. (In Japanese)
Hongfei Wang, Zhousi Chen, Zizheng Zhang, Zhidong Ling, Xiaomeng Pan, Wenjie Duan, Masato Mita, and Mamoru Komachi. Revisiting the Evaluation for Chinese Grammatical Error Correction. Journal of Advanced Computational Intelligence and Intelligent Informatics. 2024, Vol.28, No.6. p1380-1390. [Paper]
International Conferences / Workshops
Zhidong Ling and Mamoru Komachi. LSC-Pattern: Interpretable Lexical Semantic Change Analysis via Diachronic Sense Distributions. The 2026 Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing (EMNLP), Budapest, Hungary. October, 2026 (Main, Long).
Mio Ohashi, Hajime Kiyama, Zhidong Ling, and Mamoru Komachi. LLM-based Literal Example Generation for Japanese Multiword Expressions. The 64th Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics Student Research Workshop (ACL SRW 2026). July, 2026.
Mao Shimada, Hajime Kiyama, Zhidong Ling, Mamoru Komachi, Toshinobu Ogiso (NINJAL), Hiroya Takamura (AIST), and Daichi Mochihashi (ISM). Neural KWIC: Inducing Contextualized Word Embeddings from KWIC Concordance Examples. The 64th Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics Student Research Workshop (ACL SRW 2026). July, 2026.
Mao Shimada, Kexin Bian, Zhidong Ling, and Mamoru Komachi. 2025. HIT-YOU at TSAR 2025 Shared Task Leveraging Similarity-Based Few-Shot Prompting, Round-Trip Translation, and Self-Refinement for Readability-Controlled Text Simplification. In Proceedings of the Fourth Workshop on Text Simplification, Accessibility and Readability (TSAR 2025), pages 231–241, Suzhou, China. [Paper]
Zhidong Ling and Yuu Jinnai. On Generating Consistent and Attractive Promotional Introduction Text for Narrative Media Arts. The 5th Wordplay: When Language meets Games Workshop (Wordplay 2025) at EMNLP, Suzhou, China. [Paper]
Zhidong Ling, Zihao Li, Pablo Romero, Lifeng Han, and Goran Nenadic. MaLei at the PLABA Track of TREC 2024: RoBERTa for Term Replacement -- LLaMA3.1 and GPT-4o for Complete Abstract Adaptation. PLABA 2024. [Paper]
Zhidong Ling, Taichi Aida, Teruaki Oka, and Mamoru Komachi. Construction of Evaluation Dataset for Japanese Lexical Semantic Change Detection. Proceedings of the 37th Pacific Asia Conference on Language, Information and Computation (PACLIC2023), pp.125-136. Hong Kong. December, 2023. [Paper]
Domestic Conferences / Symposiums (All in Japanese)
Heesu Kim, Zhidong Ling, Saku Kiyama, and Mamoru Komachi. Grounding Word Senses in Vision: Multimodal Word Sense Induction. 21st Young Researcher Association for NLP Studies Symposium (YANS 2026). August, 2026.
Mao Shimada, Saku Kiyama, Zhidong Ling, Mamoru Komachi, Toshinobu Ogiso, Hiroya Takamura, and Daichi Mochihashi. Neural KWIC: Inducing Contextualized Word Embeddings and Visualization from KWIC Concordance Examples. 21st Young Researcher Association for NLP Studies Symposium (YANS 2026). August, 2026.
Xin Tan, Saku Kiyama, Zhidong Ling, and Mamoru Komachi. Can We Distinguish Diachronic and Domain Changes in Word Meanings? The 32nd Annual Meeting of the Association for Natural Language Processing (NLP2026). March 9, 2026.
Mio Ohashi, Saku Kiyama, Zhidong Ling, and Mamoru Komachi. LLM-based Literal Example Generation for Japanese Multiword Expressions. The 32nd Annual Meeting of the Association for Natural Language Processing (NLP2026). March 9, 2026.
Mao Shimada, Saku Kiyama, Zhidong Ling, Mamoru Komachi, Toshinobu Ogiso, Hiroya Takamura, and Daichi Mochihashi. Neural KWIC: Inducing Contextualized Word Embeddings and Analysis from KWIC Concordance Examples. The 267th Meeting of Special Interest Group of Natural Language Processing (SIGNL). March 7-8, 2026. [Young Researcher Award, First Author Only] 👍
Zhidong Ling and Mamoru Komachi. Axis-based Analysis of Lexical Semantic Change Using Dictionary Senses. "Diachronic Corpus" Symposium 2026. March 7, 2026. [Link]
Zhidong Ling and Yuu Jinnai. Toward Automatic Generation and Evaluation of Synopses to Convey the Appeal of Works. YANS 2025. September, 2025.
Mio Ohashi, Zhidong Ling, Saku Kiyama, and Mamoru Komachi. Error Analysis of Deep Learning-based Japanese Multiword Expression Identification. YANS 2025. September, 2025.
Zhidong Ling, Taichi Aida, Teruaki Oka, and Mamoru Komachi. Expansion of Evaluation Dataset for Japanese Lexical Semantic Change Detection and Evaluation of Detection Methods. The 30th Annual Meeting of the Association for Natural Language Processing (NLP2024). March 12, 2024. [Paper]
Zhidong Ling, Teruaki Oka, and Mamoru Komachi. Construction of Evaluation Dataset for Japanese Lexical Semantic Change Detection. "Diachronic Corpus" Symposium 2023. March 10, 2023. [Link]
Zhidong Ling, Taichi Aida, Hwichan Kim, Teruaki Oka, Kazuma Kobayashi, and Mamoru Komachi. Development of an Analysis Tool by Domain for Word Examples Using Japanese BERT. The 28th Annual Meeting of the Association for Natural Language Processing (NLP2022). March 16, 2022. [Paper]
JST SPRING "The Bridge to the Future" Hitotsubashi University Doctoral Innovation Human Resource Development Project (2025.4 - 2028.3)
MEXT Honors Scholarship for Privately-Financed International Students (2018.4 - 2019.3)
2026.8 - 2026.9: NTT Communication Science Laboratories, Intern (Mentor: Masaaki Nagata)
2025.9 - Present: Shogakukan Inc., Commissioned Research, Nihon Kokugo Daijiten (3rd Edition)
2025.7 ~ Now, Hitotsubashi University, Research Assistant
2025.4 - 2025.9: CyberAgent AI Lab (Reinforcement Learning Group), Research Internship (Mentor: Yuu Jinnai)
2025.4 ~ 2025.6, Hitotsubashi University, Teaching Assistant, Programming 1
2024.4 ~ 2024.7, Tokyo Metropolitan University, Teaching Assistant, Mentor for NLP100Knock 2024
2023.8 ~ 2023.12, Tokyo Metropolitan University, part-time staff, Collaborative Research
2023.4 ~ 2023.7, Tokyo Metropolitan University, Teaching Assistant, Mentor for NLP100Knock 2023
2023.3 ~ 2024.3, Techsor Co., part-time software engineer
2022.8 ~ 2022.9, Neusoft JAPAN, part-time researcher
2022.4 ~ 2022.7, Tokyo Metropolitan University, Teaching Assistant, Mentor for NLP100Knock 2022
2021.1 ~ 2022.5, ELM Housing, Rental Property Agent
2025.3 ~ Now, Hitotsubashi University, Department of Social Data Science
2024.8 ~ 2024.12, University of Manchester, Department of Computer Science, Student Visitor, Supervised by Prof. Goran Nenadic
2022.4 ~ 2025.3, Tokyo Metropolitan University, Graduate School of Systems Design, Department of Computer Science, NLP Group
2018.4 ~ 2022.3, Tokyo Metropolitan University, Faculty of System Design, Department of Computer Science, NLP Group
2017.7 ~ 2018.3, Fuji International Language Institute