Curriculum Vitae
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Education
National University of Singapore — Singapore
MA by Research in Linguistics (2025 – Present)
Chengyi College, Jimei University — Xiamen, Fujian, China
Bachelor of Engineering in Network Engineering (2017 – 2021)
Research Interests
- Cantonese and Yue linguistics
- Language contact and dialectal variation
- Romanization and transcription for Yue varieties
- Corpus linguistics and lexical resource development
- Language technology for under-resourced languages
Publications
Liang, Zinan and Huang, Junxin. (2024). "Man1 in Ngzhau Cantonese: A Study of Language Contact between Yuehai and Goulou Yue." Buckeye East Asian Linguistics. 9, 163-179.
Talks
November 01, 2024
Conference Presentation at 27th International Conference on Yue Dialect, The Ohio State University
June 26, 2021
Workshop Presentation at 21st Workshop on Cantonese (WOC-21), Hong Kong
Research & Project Experience
TypeDuck — Cantonese IME with Multilingual Dictionary
Developer (Sept 2022 – Dec 2024)
- Developed IME algorithm logic and dictionary-related tooling for a Cantonese input method.
- Designed and implemented dictionary interface components for multilingual lookup.
- Refined Cantonese lexical entries and filtered low-frequency items for practical input use.
Chinese Newspaper Corpus System
Developer (Oct 2020)
- Designed a crawler and extraction workflow for mainstream online Chinese newspapers across Asia.
- Processed scraped text into cleaner structured data for later corpus use.
Cantonese Computational Linguistics Infrastructure Development Workgroup (CanCLID)
Contributor (2020 – Present)
- Collected and cleaned online Guangzhou Cantonese text data.
- Worked on Cantonese/Mandarin classification using Cantonese and Mandarin corpus data.
- Supported Mozilla Common Voice Cantonese localization through UI translation, corpus curation, audio recording, and validation.
- Contributed to Cantonese IME algorithm and language-resource development.
Lingnaam Jyutjam Association (嶺南粵音)
Member (2017 – Present) — jyutjam.org
- Developed web infrastructure for the Pan-Cantonese Dictionary (Jyutdict.org).
- Collected and analyzed colloquial Cantonese lexical materials for comparative Yue research.
- Proposed and discussed tone-sandhi transcription solutions for Jyutping++.
Computational Methods & Data Skills
- Corpus collection, scraping, cleaning, parsing, and metadata organization.
- Python-based text processing with pandas and regular-expression workflows.
- Lexical data preparation for dictionaries, input methods, and Cantonese language resources.
- Basic NLP workflows, including language-model-based classification for Cantonese/Mandarin data.
- Web and database tooling for language-resource projects, including PHP/MySQL-backed dictionary systems.
- Acoustic analysis with Praat.
- Git/GitHub workflows for collaborative research and open-source language technology projects.
Languages
- Native: Cantonese, Dianbai Hokkien, Mandarin
- Fluent: Taiwan Hokkien, English
- Basic conversation: Japanese, Bahasa Melayu / Indonesian
Service and Community Work
- Lingnaam Jyutjam Association, member and contributor to Cantonese phonetics, phonology, and romanization discussions.
- CanCLID, contributor to Cantonese computational linguistics infrastructure and open-source language technology work.
