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Matthew Sung
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]nlEmail:
Research interests:
Research 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:
My University Profile Page:
https://www.universiteitleiden.nl/en/staffmembers/matthew-sung#tab-1
LinkedIn:
LinkedIn:
Research Group/ Department Websites:
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
NEWS
Latest publications:
Latest publications:
Sung, Matthew. (2025). "On Transitional Dialects and Dialect Typicality". Computational Linguistics in the Netherlands Journal, Vol. 14. [Link]
Sung, Matthew, Prokić, Jelena & Chen, Yiya. (2025). "Applying the state–of–the–art tonal distance metrics to a large dialectal dataset". In S. Wagner, & U. Stange-Hundsdörfer (Eds.), (Dia)lects in the 21st century: Selected papers from Methods in Dialectology XVII (Mainz, 2022) (Language Variation). Language Science Press.
Upcoming talks and workshops:
Upcoming talks and workshops:
Jelena Prokić & Matthew Sung. "A Multi-Modal Approach to Analyzing Facebook Posts Using NLP and Image Processing". 35th Computational Linguistics in the Netherlands (CLIN). September 2025.
Matthew Sung. From Dialectology to Dialectometry (2025). September 2025.
Recent workshops:
Recent workshops:
Matthew Sung. Digital Mapping for Linguists with QGIS. University of Edinburgh. October 2024. (Invited Workshop)
Recent talks:
Recent talks:
Jelena Prokić & Matthew Sung. "Integrating Computational Approaches and Ethnography: Potentials and Challenges in Analyzing Social Media and Violence". 10th European Conference on African Studies. June 2025.
Sung, Matthew & Prokić, Jelena (2025). "Advances in using Multiple Sequence Alignment in Dialectometry". DiaClas - Dialect classification – past, present and future.
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