WONG Tak-sum 黃得森

(MPhil, The Hong Kong University of Science and Technology, 2008)

PhD Candidate

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Wong Tak-sum is currently a PhD candidate and a senior research assistant in the Department of Linguistics and Translation at City University of Hong Kong.  He received his MPhil degree in Chinese Linguistics and BEng degree with minors in Mathematics, and Humanities from the Hong Kong University of Science and Technology in 2008 and 2004 respectively.  He served as a research assistant in the Signal Processing Laboratory of City University of Hong Kong from 2004 to 2006, the Human-Computer Communications Laboratory (HCCL) of the Chinese University of Hong Kong in 2009, and the Faculty of Education of the University of Hong Kong from 2010 to 2011.  He has also been a part-time senior research assistant in the Halliday Centre for Intelligent Applications of Language Studies of City University of Hong Kong, a part-time research assistant in the Research Centre on Linguistics and Language Information Sciences of the Hong Kong Institute of Education, a part-time lecturer in the Department of Chinese, Translation and Linguistics of City University of Hong Kong, a part-time senior research assistant in the Department of Chinese Language Studies and the Department of Linguistics and Modern Language Studies of the Hong Kong Institute of Education, and a part-time research assistant in the Department of Chinese and Bilingual Studies of the Hong Kong Polytechnic University.  Before joining CityU, he served as a research associate in the Department of English of the Hong Kong Polytechnic University.

Research interest:

Chinese linguistics; Chinese historical phonology; Cantonese linguistics; Chinese palæography; Chinese dialectology; Historical phonology; Phonetics; Grammatology; Computational linguistics; Corpus linguistics, Computer-assisted language learning

Citation-received publications: DBLP Arnetminer Microsoft Academic Search Google Scholar

Foong Ha YAP, Ying YANG and Tak-Sum WONG. "On the Development of Sentence Final Particles (and Utterance Tags) in Chinese" In Discourse Functions at the Left and Right Periphery: Crosslinguistic Investigations of Language Use and Language Change, ed. Kate Beeching & Ulrich Detges [Studies in Pragmatics Series 12]. Bingley, UK: Emerald Publishers, 2014, pp. 179−220. 9 Citations Google book

John LEE, Tak-sum WONG. "Glimpses of Ancient China from Classical Chinese Poems" In Proceedings of COLING 2012: Posters, ed. Martin Kay & Christian Boitet. Mumbai: COLING 2012 Organizing Committee, pp. 621−631. 5 Citations

Tak-Sum WONG. "The Beginning of Merging of the Tonal Categories B2 and C1 in Hong Kong Cantonese" Journal of Chinese Linguistics, Vol. 36(1), pp. 155−174, January 2008. paper 9 Citations 1 2 3 4 5 6 7

Howard LEUNG, Sam T.S. WONG and Horace H.S. IP. "In the Name of Art: Preserving Archaic Chinese Calligraphy and Reproducing its Dynamic Brush Writing" IEEE Signal Processing Magazine, Vol. 25(4), pp. 49−54, July 2008. 18 Citations

Sam Tak-Sum WONG, Howard LEUNG and Horace Ho-Shing IP. "Fitting Ellipses to a Region with Application in Calligraphic Stroke Reconstruction" In Proceedings of the International Conference on Image Processing (ICIP 2006), pp. 397−400, Atlanta, USA, October 2006. Citations

Sam T. S. WONG, Howard LEUNG and Horace H. S. IP. "Brush Writing Style Classification from Individual Chinese Characters" In Proceedings of the 18^th International Conference on Pattern Recognition (ICPR 2006), Vol. 1, pp. 884−887, Hong Kong, August 2006. 9 Citations1 2

Sam Tak-Sum WONG, Howard LEUNG and Horace Ho-Shing IP. "Skeleton-Based Analysis of Oriental Calligraphic Images" Pattern Recognition and Machine Intelligence (PRAMI), Vol. 01(1), pp. 1−21, 2006. 7 Citations

Sam T. S. WONG, Howard LEUNG and Horace H. S. IP. "Model-based Analysis of Chinese Calligraphy Images" In Proceedings of the Ninth International Conference on Information Visualisation (IV05), London, England, July 2005. 32 Citations1 2

Other referred publications:

Tak-sum WONG, Kim GERDES, Herman LEUNG, and John LEE. "Quantitative Comparative Syntax on the Cantonese-Mandarin Parallel Dependency Treebank" Proceedings of the Fourth International Conference on Dependency Linguistics, pp. 266−275, Pisa, Italy, September 2017.

Winnie Oi-Wan CHOR, Foong Ha YAP and Tak-Sum WONG. "Chinese Interrogative Particles as Talk Coordinators at the Right Periphery: A Discourse-Pragmatic Perspective" Journal of Historical Pragmatics, Vol. 17(2), pp. 178−207, December 2016.

Herman LEUNG, Rafaël POIRET, Tak-sum WONG, Xinying ChEN, Kim GERDES and John LEE. "Developing Universal Dependencies for Mandarin Chinese" Proceedings of the 12th Workshop on Asian Language Resources, pp. 20−29, Osaka, Japan, December 2016.

John LEE and Tak-sum WONG. "Conversational Network in the Chinese Buddhist Canon" Open Linguistics, Vol. 2(1), pp. 427−436, October 2016. doi:  https://doi.org/10.1515/opli-2016-0022 .

Tak-sum WONG and John LEE.  "A Dependency Treebank of the Chinese Buddhist Canon" Proceedings of the Tenth International Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation, ed. Nicoletta Calzolari, Khalid Choukri, Thierry Declerck, Marko Grobelnik, Bente Maegaard, Joseph Mariani, Asuncion Moreno, Jan Odijk, Stelios Piperidis. Paris: European Language Resources Association, 2016, pp. 1679−1683.

John S. Y. LEE and Tak Sum WONG. "Hierarchy of Characters in the Chinese Buddhist Canon" Proceedings of the Twenty-Ninth International Florida Artificial Intelligence Research Society Conference, ed. Adravko Markov & Ingrid Russell. Palo Alto, California: The AAAI Press, 2016, pp. 531−534.

Tak-sum WONG and John S. Y. LEE. "Corpus-based Learning of Cantonese for Mandarin Speakers" ReCALL, Vol. 28(2), pp.187−206, May 2016. doi: 10.1017/S0958344015000257 .

David C. S. LI, Cathy S. P. WONG, Wai Mun LEUNG and Sam T. S. WONG. "Facilitation of Transference: The Case of Monosyllabic Salience in Hong Kong Cantonese" Linguistics, Vol. 54(1), pp. 1−58, January 2016.

John LEE, Tak-Sum WONG. "Corpus-Based Learning of Cantonese for Mandarin Speakers" In CALL Design: Principles and Practice - Proceedings of the 2014 EUROCALL Conference, ed. Sake Jager, Linda Bradley, Estelle J. Meima & Sylvie Thouësny. Groningen: Research-publishing.net, 2014, pp. 196−201.

WONG Tak Sum. "A Look at the Phonological System of Cantonese in the Mid-19^th Century, with a Focus on the Sibilants: A Quantitative Analysis of the Cantonese Romanisation Scheme Used by the British" In Selected Papers from the 2006 Annual Research Forum of the Linguistic Society of Hong Kong, ed. Colleen Wong. Hong Kong: Linguistic Society of Hong Kong, 2008, pp. 30−46.

Other conference presentations:

WONG Tak-sum, LEE John Sie Yuen. 〈國粵平行依存樹庫為本之量化研究〉[Quantitative study based on parallel dependency treebank of Mandarin and Cantonese]. Presented in the 22^nd International Conference on Yue Dialects, the Education University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong SAR, P. R. China, December 2017.

Tak-sum WONG, Kim GERDES, Herman LEUNG, and John LEE. "Quantitative Comparative Syntax on the Cantonese-Mandarin Parallel Dependency Treebank". Presented in the Fourth International Conference on Dependency Linguistics (Depling 2017), Pisa, Italy, September 2017.

Herman LEUNG, Rafaël POIRET, Tak-sum WONG, Xinying ChEN, Kim GERDES and John LEE. "Developing Universal Dependencies for Mandarin Chinese". Presented in the 12^th Workshop on Asian Language Resources (ALR 12), Osaka, Japan, December 2016.

Tak-sum WONG and John LEE.  "A dependency treebank of the Chinese Buddhist Canon". Presented in the 10th Edition of the Language Resource and Evaluation Conference (LREC 2016), the Grand Hotel Bernardin Conference Center, Portorož, Slovenia, May 2016.

John S. Y. LEE and Tak Sum WONG. "Hierarchy of characters in the Chinese Buddhist Canon". Presented in the Twenty-Ninth International FLAIRS Conference (FLAIRS-29), Hilton Key Largo Resort, Key Largo, Florida, United States of America, May 2016.

Tak-sum WONG and John LEE. "Conversational network in the Chinese Buddhist Canon". Presented in the Conference on Digital Humanities 2015 & Conference on Digital Culture 2015, the Open University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong SAR, P. R. China, December 2015.

Huiling XU, Foong Ha YAP, Tak-sum WONG. "Versatile interrogative markers: From referential to pragmatic uses". Presented in the International Conference on Functional Language Typology, Martin Centre for Appliable Linguistics, Shanghai Jiao Tong University, Shanghai, P. R. China, December 2015.

WONG Tak-sum, LEUNG Wai-mun and LI Chor Shing David.〈二十世紀九十年代中期香港報章副刊中之粵語成份〉 [The Cantonese elements in the Hong Kong newspaper columns in mid-1990s]. Presented in the 20^th International Conference on Yue Dialects, the Chinese University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong SAR, P. R. China, December 2015.

Fong Ha YAP, Huiling XU, Weirong CHEN and Tak Sum WONG. "Valence-reduction and the expression of speaker affectedness in Chinese". Presented in the Workshop on Diachrony of Valence: Changes in Argument Structure, 22nd International Conference on Historical Linguistics (ICHL22), University of Naples Federico II, Naples, Italy, July 2015. abstract

LEE John, WONG Tak-sum. "A treebank for the Chinese Buddhist canon". Presented in the Special session on Electronic Cultural Atlas Initiative, the 20th International Conference on Virtual Systems and Multimedia (VSMM 2014), City University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong SAR, P. R. of China, December 2014.

Foong Ha YAP, Huiling XU, Tak-sum WONG. "Pragmatic uses of mekai 'what (thing)' constructions in Chaozhou and other Sinitic languages". Presented in the 2nd Conference of the American Pragmatics Association (AMPRA), University of California at Los Angeles, October 2014.

John LEE, Tak-sum WONG. "Corpus-based learning of Cantonese for Mandarin speakers". Presented in the 21st Annual Conference of the European Association for Computer-Assisted Language Learning (EUROCALL 2014), University of Groningen, the Netherlands, August 2014.

Foong Ha YAP, Tak-sum WONG and Winnie Oi Wan CHOR. "Clause-medial particles and stance marking in Cantonese". Presented in the Fourteen Workshop on Cantonese (WOC-14), City University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong SAR, P. R. of China, March 2014. abstract

Tak-sum WONG and John Sie Yuen LEE. "A Preliminary study on computer-aided acquisition of Cantonese vocabulary by Mandarin speakers using a parallel corpus". Presented in the Second Asia Pacific Corpus Linguistics Conference (APCLC 2014), the Hong Kong Polytechnic University, Hong Kong SAR, P. R. of China, March 2014.

WONG Tak-Sum. 〈試論廣州話a¹¹系列疑問語氣詞之語源──從上古漢語之疑問語氣詞談起〉 [A preliminary study on the etymology of the a¹¹ series interrogative mood particle: In relation to the interrogative mood particle of Archaic Chinese]. Presented in the 18^th International Conference on Yue Dialects, the Hong Kong University of Science and Technology, Hong Kong SAR, P. R. of China, December 2013. abstract

CHAN Ariel Shuk-ling, Tak-sum WONG and Foong Ha YAP. "On the development of benefactive lai 'come' in Cantonese: Implications for the relationship between benefactive and purposive uses of directional verbs". Presented in the 10^th Biennial Conference of the Association for Linguistic Typology (ALT 10), Universität Leipzig, Leipzig, Germany, August 2013.  abstract

Foong Ha YAP, Weirong CHEN and Tak-sum WONG. "Valence-reducing phenomena concerning GIVE and TAKE in Chinese". Presented at the Workshop on Argument Realisation of GET, GIVE, PUT and TAKE Verbs in Functionally Motivated Approaches, the 25^th Scandinavian Conference of Linguistics (SCL-25), University of Iceland, Reykjavik, May 2013. abstract

Foong Ha YAP, Ariel Shuk-ling CHAN and Tak-sum WONG. "On the grammaticalization of stative verbs into continuative markers: The case of Malay asyik 'desire' and Cantonese gwaazyu 'keep thinking about' ". Presented at the 23rd Meeting of the Southeast Asian Linguistics Society (SEALS23), Chulalongkorn University, Bangkok, Thailand, May 2013. abstract

John LEE, Tak-sum WONG. "Glimpses of ancient China from Classical Chinese poems". Presented in the 24^th International Conference on Computational Linguistics (COLING-2012), IIT Bombay, Mumbai, India, December 2012.

Tak-Sum WONG, Foong Ha YAP and Weirong CHEN. "Valence-reducing Phenomena in Chinese". Presented in the 45^th International Conference on Sino-Tibetan Languages and Linguistics (ICSTLL45), Nanyang Technological University, Republic of Singapore, October 2012. abstract

YANG Ying, Foong Ha YAP and Tak-sum WONG. " “I am sure but I hedge”: fear expression kongpa as a rhetorical interactive strategy in Mandarin conversation ". Presented in the Workshop on Epistemicity, Evidentiality and Attitude in Asian Languages, the Hong Kong Polytechnic University, Hong Kong, P. R. of China, September 2012.

WONG Tak-Sum and YAP Foong Ha. "From Classifier to Stance Marker: On the Diachronic Development of Cantonese go³". Presented in the 2^nd Symposium on Chinese Language and Discourse 2012, Nanyang Technological University, Republic of Singapore, June 2012. abstract

YANG Ying, Tak-Sum WONG and Foong Ha YAP. "A Diachronic Study of Epistemic Kongpa in Mandarin Discourse". Presented in the 6^th Conference on Language, Discourse, and Cognition (CLDC 2012), National Taiwan University, T'aipei City, R. of China, May 2012. abstract

WONG Tak-sum, YANG Ying and YAP Foong-Ha.〈利用語料庫分析廣州話“唔知”與其相關之負面感情態度語句──否定、不定及情態間之關係〉[A corpus analysis of Cantonese m4zi1(‘don’t know’) and related negative attitudinal expressions: Implications for the relationship between negation, indefiniteness and stance]. Presented in the 16^th International Conference on Yue Dialects, The Hong Kong Polytechnic University, Hong Kong SAR, P. R. of China, December 2011. abstract

Tak-Sum WONG. "The Historical Origin of the Post-clausal sin in Cantonese". Presented in the 2011 Annual Research Forum of the Linguistic Society of Hong Kong (LSHK-ARF 2011), City University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong SAR, P. R. of China, December 2011.

Tak-sum WONG. "A Pilot Study on the Outcome of Teaching Phonological Correspondence in Cantonese Class for Mandarin Speakers" Presented in the 2010 Annual Research Forum of the Linguistic Society of Hong Kong (LSHK-ARF 2010), The Chinese University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong SAR, P. R. of China, December 2010.

WONG Tak-sum. "A Hypothesis on the Mechanism behind the Lateralization of the Alveolar Nasal-Initial in Hong Kong Cantonese" Presented in the 2009 Annual Research Forum of the Linguistic Society of Hong Kong (LSHK-ARF 2009), The Hong Kong Institute of Education, Hong Kong SAR, P. R. of China, December 2009.

WONG Tak-Sum. 〈廣州話中入調與元音長短之規律再探〉[The Phonological Rule between Tone D1b and Vowel Length in Cantonese Revisited]. Presented in the 14^th International Conference on Yue Dialects cum the 5^th International Conference on Pinghua, Kwei-Lin, P. R. of China, December 2009.

WONG Tak-Sum. 〈去聲別義於現代方言之表現〉[The Manifestation of Differentiating Acceptation by the Departing Tone in Modern Chinese Dialects]. Presented in the 15^th International Conference on Chinese Dialects cum Annual Conference of the National Association of Chinese Dialects, Universidade de Macau, Macau SAR, P. R. of China, December 2009.

WONG Tak-Sum. 〈“訓民粵音”── 以諺文書寫廣州話之嘗試〉[The Cantonese Sounds for the Instruction of the People: An Attempt of Utilizing the Korean Script to Write Cantonese]. Presented in the Ninth Workshop on Cantonese (WOC), The Hong Kong University of Science and Technology, Hong Kong SAR, P. R. of China, November 2009. Abstract

WONG Tak-Sum. 〈上古漢語末期之押韻概況：魏晉韻文之數理統計硏究〉 [On the Rhyming of pre-Middle Chinese: A Statistical Study on the Verse in the Wèi-Chìn Period]. Presented in the 16^th Annual Conference of the International Association of Chinese Linguistics, Peking University, Péking, P. R. of China, May 2008. Citation

WONG Tak-Sum. 〈試探音變之另一成因──重新分析〉 [A Preliminary Investigation on Another Origin of Sound Change: Re-analysis]. Presented in the Seventh Workshop on Cantonese (WOC), The Hong Kong University of Science and Technology, Hong Kong SAR, P. R. of China, March 2008.

WONG Tak-Sum. 〈廣州話“啲”、“尐”與“的”〉[The di, dit and dik in Cantonese]. Presented in the 12^th Symposium of the Research Project on the Comparison of Dialects in South-East China, Ku-lang Hsü, Amoy, P. R. of China, May 2007.

WONG Tak-sum. "The Beginning of Merging of the Tonal Categories B2 and C1 in Hong Kong Cantonese". Presented in the Annual Research Forum (ARF) 2005 of the Linguistic Society of Hong Kong, City University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong SAR, P. R. of China, December 2005.

WONG Tak Sum. "On the Rhyming of pre-Middle Chinese: a Statistical Study of the Verse in the Wèi-Jìn Period". MPhil Thesis, The Hong Kong University of Science and Technology, Hong Kong SAR, P. R. China. 2008. Citations

Reviewer:

Pattern Recognition (2008), International Journal of Corpus Linguistics (2014), Journal of the American Academy of Religion (2016), Current Research in Chinese Linguistics (2018)