Research Projects

Learning the ordering of coordinate compounds and elaborate expressions in Hmong, Lahu, and Chinese.

Prepare a corpus of East Tusom wordlist and text data for release, with phonetic and phonemic transcriptions and appropriate metadata. Produce a sketch of the phonetics and phonology of East Tusom (Tangkhulic; Tibeto-Burman) based on ibid.

Computational morphology for language documentation.

Attempt to leverage neural-based models with dual sources (transcription and translation) to create a hard-to-obtain gloss from an easy-to-obtain parallel corpus.

Contextualize a word translation task; fill the gap between outdated dictionary-based word translation tasks and update contextualized word embedding evaluation.