Man1 in Ngzhau Cantonese: A Study of Language Contact between Yuehai and Goulou Yue
Liang, Zinan. (2024). "Man1 in Ngzhau Cantonese: A Study of Language Contact between Yuehai and Goulou Yue." Buckeye East Asian Linguistics. 9, 163-179.
Curriculum Vitae
Work Experience
TypeDuck — Cantonese IME with Multilingual Dictionary
Developer (Sept 2022 – Present)
- Engineered the IME algorithm server
- Designed the dictionary user interface
- Refined Cantonese lexicon and removed low-frequency vocabulary
Chinese Newspaper Corpus System
Developer (Oct 2020)
- Designed a scalable crawler and extractor for major online Chinese newspapers across Asia
Cantonese Computational Linguistics Infrastructure Development Workgroup (CanCLID)
Contributor (2020 – Present)
- Collected and cleaned a large Guangzhou Cantonese corpus
- Trained Cantonese / Mandarin classifiers
- Localized Mozilla Common Voice into Cantonese (UI translation, corpus curation, audio recording & validation)
- Optimized IME algorithms for Cantonese text input
Lingnaam Jyutjam Association (嶺南粵音)
Member (2017 – Present) — jyutjam.org
- Developed the Pan-Cantonese Dictionary (Jyutdict.org) web application
- Conducted extensive collection and analysis of colloquial Cantonese terms for proto-Yue reconstruction
- Proposed tone-sandhi notation for Jyutping++ (Find out more on (jyutjam.org)[https://jyutjam.org/j++])
Skills
Languages:
- Native: Cantonese, Dianbai Hokkien, Mandarin
- Fluent: Taiwan Hokkien, English
- Basic Conversation: Japanese, Bahasa Melayu / Indonesian
Technical Skills:
- Training language models & machine-learning systems
- Corpus collection & data processing (Python, pandas)
- IME development & algorithm optimization
- Acoustic analysis with Praat
- Web scraping and data mining
- Git version control and collaborative development
Projects
- Open-source Cantonese tools (e.g., Jyutping++, TypeDuck)
- Python tutorials for scraping and cleaning Chinese-language corpora
- Collaborative insights from Lingnaam Jyutjam Association projects;CanClID Member
Visit jyutjam.org for project deep-dives and community updates.
Publications
Talks
Presentation at 27th International Conference on Yue Dialect
Conference Presentation at 27th International Conference on Yue Dialect, The Ohio State Univerisity
The Construction and Implementation of the Jyutping++
Workshop Presentation at 21st Workshop on Cantonese (WOC-21), Hong Kong