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Asst Prof Li Nguyen
Assistant Professor, School of Humanities
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Li Nguyen is a linguist specialising in language variation and change, contact linguistics, and computational sociolinguistics. Much of her work is corpora-based and focuses on contact phenomena in bilingual settings. Her current interests include language use in ethnically diverse communities, sociolinguistically informed NLP, and innovative technologies that can accommodate multilingual speakers.
Li's current commitments are interdisciplinary projects, where she works collaboratively with computer scientists, industry partners, and policy makers to evaluate and develop educational technologies for code-switching.
Before joining NTU as an Assistant Professor, she worked as Research Associate at the ALTA Institute within the Cambridge Computer Lab, Director of Studies for Linguistics at Christ's college Cambridge, and Research Fellow and Lecturer at the Australian National University. In 2022, she was sponsored by the British Academy as an Exceptional Promise for Linguistics under the UK Global Talent visa scheme.
She holds a PhD in Linguistics from the University of Cambridge.
Li's current commitments are interdisciplinary projects, where she works collaboratively with computer scientists, industry partners, and policy makers to evaluate and develop educational technologies for code-switching.
Before joining NTU as an Assistant Professor, she worked as Research Associate at the ALTA Institute within the Cambridge Computer Lab, Director of Studies for Linguistics at Christ's college Cambridge, and Research Fellow and Lecturer at the Australian National University. In 2022, she was sponsored by the British Academy as an Exceptional Promise for Linguistics under the UK Global Talent visa scheme.
She holds a PhD in Linguistics from the University of Cambridge.
- Heritage language, language contact, language variation and change
- Evaluating and developing sociolinguistically informed technologies, particularly for code-switching and non-canonical language production
- Evaluating and developing sociolinguistically informed technologies, particularly for code-switching and non-canonical language production
Fellowships & Other Recognition
- ARDC-funded LDaCA fellowship
- UK Global Talent, British Academy
- Cambridge University Press & Assessment postdoc fellowship
- Newton Trust-CLS Research Incubator awardee
- Cambridge University full International Scholarship (PhD)
- UK Global Talent, British Academy
- Cambridge University Press & Assessment postdoc fellowship
- Newton Trust-CLS Research Incubator awardee
- Cambridge University full International Scholarship (PhD)
Supervision of PhD Students
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