Jason S. Chang
My blogs
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| Occupation | Educator |
| Introduction | I am a professor of computational linguistics at National Tsing Hua University, Taiwan. My recent research focuses on the design of online systems for addressing the issues of turning Big Data into cloud-based educational services for second language learners. Collaborating with humanity researchers, I have developed several CALL tools, notably, TotalRecall (bilingual concordance), Linggle (linguistic search engine), and WriteAhead (interactive writing environment). When not teaching or doing research, I wrote columns for Scientific American (Taiwan Edition) and translated a world history book, “The Human Web: A Bird's-Eye View of World History.” Before joining Tsing Hua, I studied at Courant Institute of Mathematical Sciences, NYU for my Ph.D. I served as the president (2001-2003) of the Association for Computational Linguistics and Chinese Language Processing. Currently, I am involved in a project for developing the Corpus of Contemporary Taiwanese Mandarin (COCT), modeled after the Corpus of Contemporary American English (COCA), with a focus on fostering research, teaching, and learning of Chinese as a second language. |