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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Whose Taiwan? Wins the Best Paper Award at ROCLING 2026

Yu-Chieh Wang, Lang-Ching Yeh, and Guan-Yu Tseng receive the Best Paper Award at ROCLING 2026 for their study of cross-lingual geopolitical framing in large language models.

2026_11_07

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Po-Ya Angela Wang Receives an EMNLP 2026 Outstanding Paper Award

Po-Ya Angela Wang and her coauthors receive an Outstanding Paper Award at EMNLP 2026 for research on how multimodal language-model agents coordinate in reference games.

2026_11_02

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Da-Chen Lian and Coauthors Receive the FinNLP 2026 Domyn Best Paper Award

Da-Chen Lian (Richard) and his coauthors receive the Domyn Best Paper Award at FinNLP 2026 for research on financial language-model agents' responses to stated affect.

2026_11_02

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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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CAESAR

Cognitive Automated Essay Scoring and Representations (CAESAR)

CAESAR investigates AI-native language assessment for future language learners.

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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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Aligned but Not Partner-Specific: How Multimodal LLM Agents Succeed in Reference Games Without Forming Conceptual Pacts

Po-Ya Angela Wang, Chinmaya Mishra, Aslı Özyürek, Paula Rubio-Fernández, Esam Ghaleb

Proceedings of the 2026 Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing (EMNLP 2026), Budapest, Hungary 2026

Outstanding Paper Award

How LLM Financial Agents Respond to Stated Affect Depends on Their Assigned Role

Da-Chen Lian, Yu-Lin Chang, Yen-Hsi Huang, Shu-Kai Hsieh

Proceedings of the 11th Workshop on Financial Technology and Natural Language Processing (FinNLP 2026), Budapest, Hungary 2026

Domyn Best Paper Award

Whose Taiwan? Cross-Lingual Geopolitical Framing in the Representations of Large Language Models

Guan-Yu Tseng, Lang-Ching Yeh, Yu-Chieh Wang, Shu-Kai Hsieh

Conference on Computational Linguistics and Speech Processing (ROCLING) 2026

Best Paper Award

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