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Matthew Sung
PhD Candidate at Leiden University Centre for Linguistics (LUCL) & Leiden University Centre for Digital Humanities (LUCDH)
Email:
h.w.m.sung[at]hum.leidenuniv[dot]nlResearch interests:
General Dialectology;
Dialectometry;
Computational Dialectology;
Segmental and Tonal Variation;
Linguistic Mapping (QGIS);
Dialect Classification;
Historical Reconstruction;
Yue (粵語) dialectology
My University Profile Page:
https://www.universiteitleiden.nl/en/staffmembers/matthew-sung#tab-1
Research Group/ Department Websites:
Leiden Human: https://leidenhuman.github.io/
LUCDH: https://www.universiteitleiden.nl/en/humanities/centre-for-digital-humanities
LUCL: https://www.universiteitleiden.nl/en/humanities/leiden-university-centre-for-linguistics
NEWS
Latest publications:
Sung, Matthew, Prokić, Jelena & Chen, Yiya (2024). "A New Dataset for Tonal and Segmental Dialectometry from the Yue- and Pinghua-Speaking Area". In Proceedings of the 6th Workshop on Research in Computational Linguistic Typology and Multilingual NLP Workshop. [Link]
Sung, Matthew & Prokić, Jelena (2024). "Detecting Dialect Features Using Normalised Pointwise Information". Computational Linguistics in the Netherlands Journal. [Link]
Upcoming talks:
Matthew Sung (June 2024). "From Feature Extraction to Measuring Dialect Typicality". MODIFED: Morphosyntactic Dialect Feature Detection Workshop.
Matthew Sung & Jelena Prokić (July 2024). "Identification of Dialect Typicality and Kernels". 12th International Conference on Language Variation in Europe (ICLaVE|12).
Matthew Sung (August 2024). "Outliers or Wrong Predictions? Dialect Typicality and Transitional Dialects". 34th Computational Linguistics in the Netherlands (CLIN). August 2024.
Upcoming workshop:
Matthew Sung & Jelena Prokić. Research Methods in Language Micro-variation. LOT Summer School 2024.
Recent talks:
Matthew Sung, Jelena Prokić & Yiya Chen (March 2024). "A New Dataset for Tonal and Segmental Dialectometry from the Yue- and Pinghua-Speaking Area". 6th Workshop on Research in Computational Linguistic Typology and Multilingual NLP (SIGTYP).
Matthew Sung & Jelena Prokić (April 2024). "Recent Developments in Quantitative Approaches to Linguistic Micro-Variation". Seminars of the Linguistic Convergence Laboratory. (Invited talk)