Shu-Kai Hsieh
Professor, Graduate Institute of Linguistics, NTU
About
Shu-Kai Hsieh is a professor at the Graduate Institute of Linguistics at National Taiwan University, joint-appointed at the Brain and Mind Research Institute, and Vice Dean of the College of Liberal Arts. He received his PhD in Computational Linguistics from the University of Tübingen, Germany. He leads the LOPE Lab, which focuses on computational linguistics, lexical semantics, and Chinese language resources. His research explores the intersection of large language models and linguistic theory, including the concept of 'language compression' addressing LLM-driven linguistic inequality. He also leads Taiwan's team at the International Linguistics Olympiad.
Key Contributions
- Proposed 'fluid lexicon' concept challenging traditional semantic unit boundaries
- Built Chinese Wordnet (中文詞彙網路) for computational language resources
- Introduced 'language compression' concept addressing LLM linguistic inequality
- Co-authored '讓 AI 好好說話' — book on building LLMs from scratch
- Led Taiwan team at International Linguistics Olympiad as head coach
