Presentations

Oral Presentations

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.

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.

Matthew Sung & Jelena Prokić. "Advances in using Multiple Sequence Alignment in Dialectometry". DiaClas - Dialect classification – past, present and future. April 2025.

Matthew Sung. "Automatic dialect classification and feature extraction of Southern Dutch Dialects". De Grote Taaldag 2025. January 2025.

Matthew Sung. "Recent Developments in Computational Dialectology". Phonetics and Phonology Research Group, University of Edinburgh. October 2024. (Invited talk) [Link]

Matthew Sung, Sebastiaan Peeters, Giovanni Leo and Kim Groothuis. "Dialect Classification and Extracting Dialectal Features from the GCND". Gesproken Corpus van de zuidelijk-Nederlandse Dialecten (GCND) Hackathon. October 2024.

Matthew Sung. "Towards explaining and modelling Dutch dialect variation in aggregate dialectology". Research Group on Linguistic and Language Variation, Meertens Institute, Amsterdam. September 2024. (Invited talk)

Matthew Sung. "Outliers or Wrong Predictions? Dialect Typicality and Transitional Dialects". 34th Computational Linguistics in the Netherlands (CLIN). August 2024.

Matthew Sung & Jelena Prokić. "Identification of Dialect Typicality and Kernels". 12th International Conference on Language Variation in Europe (ICLaVE|12). July 2024.

Matthew Sung, Jelena Prokić & Yiya Chen. "A Dialect Tonometrical Approach to the Tonal Variation of Yue". Workshop on Cantonese (WOC) 24. July 2024.

Matthew Sung. "From Feature Extraction to Measuring Dialect Typicality". MODIFED: Morphosyntactic Dialect Feature Detection Workshop. June 2024.

Matthew Sung & Jelena Prokić. "Recent Developments in Quantitative Approaches to Linguistic Micro-Variation". Seminars of the Linguistic Convergence Laboratory. April 2024. (Invited talk)

Matthew Sung, Jelena Prokić & Yiya Chen. "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). March 2024.

Matthew Sung & Jelena Prokić. "What are Guangfu dialects?". The 27th International Conference on Yue Dialects. December 2023.

Matthew Sung & Jelena Prokić. "Feature Extraction Methods in Dialect Identification". Computational Linguistics in the Netherlands (CLIN) 33. September 2023.

Matthew Sung. "Computational Dialectology". Nacht van Ontdekkingen: Digitale Verhalen: Ontdekkingen in de Geesteswetenschappen. September 2023. [Link]

Matthew Sung & Jelena Prokić. "A comparison of three feature extraction methods". Xth Congress of the International Society for Dialectology and Geolinguistics (SIDG). September 2023.

Jelena Prokić & Matthew Sung. "Dialect Feature Extraction". Re-examination dialect syntax (REEDS) workshop 2023. June 2023.

Matthew Sung. "Is a typologically, genetically different language like European languages?". 73rd Studentische Tagung Sprachwissenschaft (StuTS). May 2023.

Matthew Sung, Priscilla Lam, Yuanhao Yin & Darius Adjong. “Some Phonological Aspects of a Central Algerian Arabic Dialect”. International School in Linguistic Fieldwork 2022. September 2022. [slides]

Matthew Sung, Jelena Prokić & Yiya Chen. “Applying the state–of–the–art tonal distance metrics to large dialectal data”. Methods in Dialectology XVII. August 2022.

Matthew Sung & Man Shan Hui. “存古抑或創新？論粵語方言[ɵ] > [ɐ]的音變 [Retention or Innovation? On the [ɵ] > [ɐ] sound change in Yue dialects]”. Forum on Cantonese Linguistics (FoCaL) 5. June 2022.

Matthew Sung & Man Shan Hui. “Retention or Innovation? On the [ɵ] > [ɐ] sound change in Yue dialects”. 71st Studentische Tagung Sprachwissenschaft (StuTS). May 2022.

Matthew Sung. “The Diatopic variation of the reflexes of Middle Chinese *ɣu- in Guangdong Yue dialects”. 68th Studentische Tagung Sprachwissenschaft (StuTS). November 2020.

Matthew Sung & Chaakming Lau. “大笨象究竟「打完仗」定「打唔贏」？ [Did the elephant ‘win the war’ or ‘lose the war’?”]. Forum on Cantonese Linguistics (FoCaL) 3. June 2020.

Matthew Sung. “San Diu – is it a variety of Cantonese or is it something else?”. 66th Studentische Tagung Sprachwissenschaft (StuTS). November 2019.

Matthew Sung. “Being a dialect detective – how much can the numbers 1 to 10 tell us about where someone is from?”. 66th Studentische Tagung Sprachwissenschaft (StuTS). November 2019.

Matthew Sung. “Is it Cantonese or Hakka? A Historical Phonological Analysis of the Sinitic Words in San Diu”. University of Edinburgh (Undergraduate) Dissertation Conference. April 2019.

Matthew Sung. “Is San Diu a Cantonese variety, or is it something else?”. 9th Undergraduate Linguistic Association of Britain (ULAB) Conference. April 2019.

Matthew Sung. “The lack of distinction between Middle Chinese *dz and *z initials in Modern Gan and Hakka dialects”. 8th Undergraduate Linguistic Association of Britain (ULAB) Conference. April 2018.

Poster Presentations

Matthew Sung. “San Diu – is it a variety of Cantonese or is it something else?”. Edinburgh Symposium on Historical Phonology (ESHP) 4. Dec 2019.

Lauren Hall-Lew, Nina Markl, Brandon Papineau & Matthew Sung. “Regional Variation in Scottish T-glottaling”. UK Language Variation and Change (UKLVC) 12. Sep 2019.

Matthew Sung. “Being a dialect detective – how much can the numbers 1 to 10 tell us about where someone is from?”. 8th Undergraduate Linguistic Association of Britain (ULAB) Conference. Apr 2018.