Li Nguyen

Li Nguyen is an Assistant Professor of Linguistics and Multilingual Studies at Nanyang Technological University (NTU), Singapore. Their work bridges linguistics with computational approaches, focusing on language variation, contact phenomena, and multilingual NLP.

• Education: PhD in Linguistics (University of Cambridge), Master’s in General and Applied Linguistics (Australian National University)

Research interests include:

• Language variation and change in multilingual/diasporic communities
• Computational sociolinguistics and NLP for low-resource varieties
• Syntax-pragmatic interface in bicultural contexts
• Code-switching and heritage language documentation

Recent publications highlight collaborations on Vietnamese-English and other code-switched language pairs, with a focus on NLP applications and corpus-based analysis. Their work has gained recognition through grants like the NTU Start-up Grant and Cambridge Language Sciences funding.

• Scientific awards: Cambridge International Scholarship, Philological Society Fieldwork Grant

Li Nguyen actively collaborates on projects involving sociolinguistically informed NLP and community-driven language documentation. They have contributed to the development of the CanVEC corpus for Vietnamese-English speech research.