About Me [CV]
I'm excited that I started my new position as the NLP specialist at the Academic Research Consulting and Services (ARCS) department at George A. Smathers Libraries of the University of Florida after completing my Linguistics Ph.D. program at the University of Minnesota in November 2021. My Ph.D. research focused on the endangered language, Nepal Bhasa, analyzing language data with the methods in linguistic fieldwork and natural language processing.
I enjoy studying linguistic theories and computer science to serve a better understanding of human languages. One sets the foundations which inspire me to explore the human capacity of language, and the other empowers me with more tools in conducting research. I'm grateful that I had some opportunities to work on many different languages such as Nepal Bhasa, Somali, Cantonese, Mandarin, English, and Korean. My dissertation topic is Clausal Complementation in Nepal Bhasa. Check out some sound voice samples from the table below!
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Research Activies and Publications
- Snippet journal submission under review 2021
- The Multiple Mechanisms for Mandarin Sluices [paper] -- with Jason Overfelt in the proceedings of GLOW-in-Asia, 2019
- To appear in the proceedings of CLS 54th 2018 : Sluicing-like Constructions in Kathmandu Newari (Nepal Bhasa), [paper]
- Embedding, Covert Movement, and Intervention in Kathmandu Newari -- with Dustin Chacón in the proceedings of LSA2018 [handout]
- Complementation in Newari : Presentation at the seventh Formal Approaches to South Asian Languages (FASAL 7) workshop, March 2017, MIT, Boston
- Entropy Reduction Prediction on Mandarin Chinese Relative Clauses: Presentation at 2016 Buckeye East Asian Linguistics Forum 2 at The Ohio State University, October 2016
- Entropy Reduction Prediction on Mandarin Chinese Relative Clauses: Presented at Semantics and Syntax Workshop of the American Midwest and Prairies 2016, Northwestern University, Evanston, Illinois, October 2016
- Processing embedded structures in Mandarin Chinese: SWAMP 2015, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, Michigan, 2015
- Costello, J. & Zhang, B. Comparing Unigram Tagger and Bigram Tagger Performance for Chinese Corpora
- Borui Zhang. 2015. Processing of Center-Embedding Structure in Mandarin Chinese, Spring Research Day, Center for Cognitive Sciences, University of Minnesota Twin Cities