I'm a linguist and a language enthusiast.
I am fascinated by the inter-relationship between language, interaction and culture and I always hold the view that the way we use language says so much about ourselves. My interest in language largely focuses on how we express our subjective views and feelings via language, and how culture/geopolitical factors may impact language use.

I got my professional training in Linguistics at National Taiwan Normal University in Taipei, Taiwan. Most of my research are at the intersection of Corpus Linguistics and Discourse Analysis. I also dived into Computational Text Analytics at the latter stage of my time in graduate school and investigated how linguistic patterns may be used for classic Natural Language Processing tasks such as Sentiment Analysis in my Master's thesis.

Recently I have witnessed a (rather painful) shift in what it means to be a linguist in an age where Big Data and statistical/machine learning methods are able to effectively learn linguistic patterns and are slowly taking over linguists' job as the language analyst. Aside from spending an enormous amount of time learning programming language and adjusting myself to the computational trend of doing linguistics, I also think about our role in this trend, i.e., how we can provide more humanistic (and hopefully irreplaceable) solutions for real-world problems and how our intuition can in turn help us better understand about ourselves.

As I ponder over these questions, I am working as a research assistant at the Institute of Linguistics, Academia Sinica in Taipei.