Education
I obtained my BA in Foreign Languages and Literatures at National Taiwan University, where the majority of my time was spent at the Graduate Institute of Linguistics. The training I received there was in the fields of computational linguistics, cognitive linguistics, and linguistic fieldwork, the last of which remains a subject I hope to contribute to at some point in my career.
Afterwards, I began my masters in Computational Linguistics. Initially this was done at the University of Tuebingen, until I transferred to the same program at the University of Stuttgart due to an interest I developed in the research there (e.g. cross-lingual embeddings), where I currently remain.
Research Interests
My research focus during my time at Tuebingen was in dialectometry, the quantitative study of dialects. I created an R package — dialectR — which is capable of performing dialectometric analyses in the R programming language. Other tools I created include a Python implementation of an acoustic distance, which performs dynamic time warping upon audio represented as MFCCs, and a word alignment library in Rust.
My current research focuses on cross-lingual methods for use in low-resource languages; computational approaches to quantifying and explaining dialect variation; and the creation of tools that may help both linguists and community members of indigenous groups in Taiwan to understand the structure of their languages.