Liwen Hou is a PhD student researching computational linguistics and natural language processing at Northeastern University’s Khoury College of Computer Sciences, advised by Professor David Smith. Before coming to Northeastern, she earned her Bachelor of Mathematics degree from the University of Waterloo, Canada, and then attended McGill University, Canada, to earn a second bachelor’s degree in linguistics and computer science. At Northeastern, Liwen is able to make use of her mixed background by taking a computational approach to investigating the evolution of language over time.
I am a PhD candidate studying Natural Language Processing and Computational Linguistics.
I am interested in using computational methods to gain insights into how natural languages work, which may in turn improve the abilities of computers to process language. Currently, I am particularly interested in changes that languages undergo over time.
With the help of datasets containing billions of words, I am currently working on automatically detecting syntactic changes that have occurred in the English language over the last two hundred years.
The evolution of language over time is an area that has always fascinated me. I think applying computational methods to diachronic linguistics is an exciting direction.
I would like to make lifelong contributions to the field of Computational Linguistics by working either for universities or in industry.
I grew up on three different continents, but I spent half of my life in Canada.
I obtained my first degree from the University of Waterloo. After that, I earned another undergraduate degree from McGill University.
Liwen Hou is a PhD student researching computational linguistics and natural language processing at Northeastern University’s Khoury College of Computer Sciences, advised by Professor David Smith. Before coming to Northeastern, she earned her Bachelor of Mathematics degree from the University of Waterloo, Canada, and then attended McGill University, Canada, to earn a second bachelor’s degree in linguistics and computer science. At Northeastern, Liwen is able to make use of her mixed background by taking a computational approach to investigating the evolution of language over time.
I am a PhD candidate studying Natural Language Processing and Computational Linguistics.
I am interested in using computational methods to gain insights into how natural languages work, which may in turn improve the abilities of computers to process language. Currently, I am particularly interested in changes that languages undergo over time.
With the help of datasets containing billions of words, I am currently working on automatically detecting syntactic changes that have occurred in the English language over the last two hundred years.
The evolution of language over time is an area that has always fascinated me. I think applying computational methods to diachronic linguistics is an exciting direction.
I would like to make lifelong contributions to the field of Computational Linguistics by working either for universities or in industry.
I grew up on three different continents, but I spent half of my life in Canada.
I obtained my first degree from the University of Waterloo. After that, I earned another undergraduate degree from McGill University.
