Shu-Kai Hsieh
Professor, Graduate Institute of Linguistics, NTU
About
Shu-Kai Hsieh is a professor at the Graduate Institute of Linguistics at National Taiwan University, joint-appointed at the Brain and Mind Research Institute, and Vice Dean of the College of Liberal Arts. He received his PhD in Computational Linguistics from the University of Tübingen, Germany. He leads the LOPE Lab, which focuses on computational linguistics, lexical semantics, and Chinese language resources. His research explores the intersection of large language models and linguistic theory, including the concept of 'language compression' addressing LLM-driven linguistic inequality. He also leads Taiwan's team at the International Linguistics Olympiad.
Key Contributions
- Builds Chinese lexical and semantic resources, including Chinese Wordnet, for computational linguistics and language technology
- Developed the fluid lexicon idea, challenging fixed word-boundary assumptions in semantic modeling
- Leads LOPE Lab projects that connect ontologies, multimodal corpora, language processing, and e-humanities
- Frames LLMs as a language-compression problem, drawing attention to linguistic inequality under dominant model pipelines
- Co-authored 讓 AI 好好說話, translating LLM construction and language theory for Traditional Chinese readers
- Connects linguistics, humanities computing, and AI, though his critique asks harder questions than current evaluation benchmarks can easily answer
