Research Lab

LOPE

Lab of Ontologies, Language Processing & e-Humanities @ NTU

We study how humans process language through computational and cognitive lenses.

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Mission & Values

We Connect Language, Technology, and Humanity

Founded in 2007 by Professor Shu-Kai Hsieh, the Lab of Ontologies, Language Processing, and e-Humanities (LOPE) draws its spirit from the word's medieval meaning: "to walk with a long bounding stride." With this steady, purposeful momentum, we believe that the enduring value of the humanities and human knowledge must be respected and innovated within the age of AI.

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Events & News

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Publication

Paper Accepted at LREC LT4HALA Workshop: Capturing Ancient Chinese Sense Induction

Bruce Tseng and the LOPE master's team have their paper on automatic sense induction for ancient Chinese accepted at the LT4HALA workshop at LREC.

2026_03_25

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Publication

Chapter Forthcoming in Elsevier's International Encyclopedia of Language and Linguistics, 3rd Edition

Amber's chapter on Multimodal Lexical Items is forthcoming in the third edition of the International Encyclopedia of Language and Linguistics, published by Elsevier.

2026_03_25

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Forum

NTU College of Liberal Arts Interdisciplinary Forum: AI II

An interdisciplinary forum at NTU examining what contemporary AI can still learn from pre-deep-learning traditions.

2025_04_29

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Portrait of Prof. Shu-Kai Hsieh

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Prof. Shu-Kai Hsieh

謝舒凱 教授

Our goal is to explore the frontier where language, cognition, and computation begin to diverge.
APPT: Graduate Institute of Linguistics
JOINT: Graduate Institute of Brain and Mind Sciences, College of Medicine
EDU: Ph.D. in Computational Linguistics, University of Tübingen, Germany
FOCUS: Computational Semantics, LLM & NLP, Digital Humanities, Language Resources, Language, Culture and Cognition
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Research Highlights

Featured Projects

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Chinese Wordnet

Chinese Wordnet (CWN) is a long-running lexical knowledge resource for representing Chinese word senses and lexical-semantic relations through synsets, glosses, examples, and a connected semantic network.

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MultiMoCo

MultiMoCo NTU

A pioneering large-scale multimodal corpus for languages in Taiwan that integrates video, dialogue, caption, and gesture layers with human annotation and multimodal machine learning workflows.

Academic Output

Selected Publications

Peer-reviewed research across computational linguistics, lexical semantics, and digital humanities.

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LawToken: a single token worth more than its constituents

Yu-Hsiang Tseng, Hsin-Yu Chou, Shu-Kai Hsieh

Proceedings of the 29th Conference on Computational Natural Language Learning 2025

Empowering Elementary Learning: Utilizing Large Language Models to Craft Tailored Textbooks with Expert Insight

Da-Chen Lian, Mao-Chang Ku, Po-Ya Angela Wang, Wei-Ling Chen, Shu-Kai Hsieh

Journal of Library and Information Studies 2025

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Continual Pre-Training is (not) What You Need in Domain Adaption

Pin-Er Chen, Da-Chen Lian, Shu-Kai Hsieh, Sieh-Chuen Huang, Hsuan-Lei Shao, Jun-Wei Chiu, Yang-Hsien Lin, Zih-Ching Chen, Eddie TC Huang, Simon See

arXiv preprint arXiv:2504.13603 2025

A Corpus-based Study of Causative Constructions in Paiwan

Mao-Chang Ku, Milingan Chia-Hao Tai, Shu-Kai Hsieh

外國語文研究 2025

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