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 in Natural Language Engineering (Cambridge University Press)

Pin-Er Chen and Da-Chen Lian's paper on encoder- and decoder-based models for word sense disambiguation and regular polysemy detection has been accepted in Natural Language Engineering, published by Cambridge University Press.

2026_06_29

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Publication

Paper Accepted at AALA 2026: Bridging Performance and Pedagogy

Po-Ya Angela Wang and Chungche Huang have their paper on sectional achievement and learner backgrounds accepted for presentation at the 12th International Conference of the Asian Association for Language Assessment (AALA 2026) in Macau.

2026_06_03

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Talk

Prof. Hsieh Shu-Kai to Speak on Language and Agent Systems at NCU NAPAI Series

Prof. Hsieh Shu-Kai will speak on how language empowers agent systems with reasoning and collaborative capacity at the NCU NAPAI SIGAgent seminar series on June 16, 2026.

2026_03_31

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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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Balancing accuracy and efficiency: Evaluating encoder- and decoder-based models for word sense disambiguation and regular polysemy detection

Pin-Er Chen, Da-Chen Lian, Shu-Kai Hsieh

Natural Language Processing (First View) 2026

When Structure Matters: Cross-Lingual Hyperbolic Embeddings for Chinese and English Wordnets

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

Language Resources and Evaluation Conference (LREC) 2026 2026

Vigesimality on an Implicational Scale: a Case Study of the Decimal-Vigesimal Continuum in Tibeto-Burman

Tung-Le Pan

The 35th Annual Meeting of the Southeast Asian Linguistics Society (SEALS 35), Nanyang Technological University, Singapore 2026

Using perspectival words is harder than vocabulary words for humans—and even more so for multimodal language models

Dota Tianai Dong, Yifan Luo, Po-Ya Angela Wang, Asli Özyürek, Paula Rubio-Fernández

Proceedings of the 64th Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL), San Diego, California 2026

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