Borui Zhang

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I am a third-year Ph.D. student in Linguistics at the Institute of Linguistics at the University of Minnesota, Twin Cities. I'm interested in discovering patterns of languages -- in syntax, semantics, and computational linguistics. I graduated with an MA in Linguistics in 2016, with a paper topic on Predictions of Entropy Reduction on Chinese Relative Clauses. I have also done the other courses besides Linguistics -- Machine Learning, Algorithms and Data Structure, Computational Syntax and Semantics. My current research work is related to syntax in Kathmandu Newari.

Educational Background & Specialties

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Educational Background

B.S.: Educational Technology, Tianjin Foreign Studies University, 2011 -
M.A.: Linguistics, Institute of Linguistics, 2016 -

Specialties

Technical skills: Python, Java, C++, Matlab, HTML, Haskell
Languages: Mandarin, English, and Cantonese

Publications

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Publications

Koller T. (2015). Adverbial Phrase Placements in L1-Chinese ESL Learners' Writing. Linguistic Portfolios, 4(1), 9.
(2014). An Acoustic Phonetic Portfolio of a Chinese-Accented English Idiolect. Linguistic Portfolios, 3(1), 11.

Activities

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Activities

Professional

Summer School: The 6th North American Summer School in Logic, Language and Information (NASSLLI 2014)
Student Organizer of the Linguistics Colloquium at University of Minnesota, 2015-present
Computational Linguistics Internship at United Language Group, Minneapolis, MN January 2017 - August 2017

Outreach

Language Tutor, St. Cloud Area School District 742, St Cloud, MN, 2012-2013

Research

Borui Zhang. 2015. Processing of Center-Embedding Structure in Mandarin Chinese, Spring Research Day, Center for Cognitive Sciences, University of Minnesota Twin Cities
Costello, J. & Zhang, B. Comparing Unigram Tagger and Bigram Tagger Performance for Chinese Corpora
Processing embedded structures in Mandarin Chinese: SWAMP 2015, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, Michigan. 2015 -
Entropy Reduction Prediction on Mandarin Chinese Relative Clauses: Presentation at 2016 Buckeye East Asian Linguistics Forum 2 at The Ohio State University. October 2016 -
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: Presented at Semantics and Syntax Workshop of the American Midwest and Prairies 2016, Northwestern University, Evanston, Illinois. October 2016 -

Awards

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Awards

Granted training at 27th European Summer School in Logic, Language and Information (ESSLLI 2015) by European Association for Computer Science Logic (EACSL)
Graduate Fellowship awarded from Institute of Linguistics, fall 2014
Granted Training at The North American Summer School on Logic, Language, and Information (NASSLLI 2016) - Rutgers, July 11, 2016 - July 15, 2016

Courses

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