Chaak-Ming Lau
劉擇明
Linguist & Digital Humanities Researcher
I am an Assistant Professor in the Department of Linguistics and Modern Language Studies at The Education University of Hong Kong, and Director of its Centre for Research on Linguistics and Language Studies (CRLLS).
My research focuses on digital humanities and language resources (lexicography, NLP and LLMs), Cantonese as an additional language, and discourse structure, including sentence-final particles and syntax. My projects include TypeDuck, Words.hk, and text-to-speech tools for Waitau and Hakka.
I am President of the Linguistic Society of Hong Kong (LSHK, 2026–2027) and Vice Chairman of the Association for Conservation of Hong Kong Indigenous Languages (HKILang). I received my Ph.D. from The Chinese University of Hong Kong in 2019.
繁體中文簡介
我是劉擇明，現任香港教育大學語言學及現代語言系助理教授，兼任語言學及語言研究中心主任。
我的研究主要涉及數碼人文與語言資源（詞典編纂、自然語言處理與大型語言模型）、粵語作為附加語言的教學，以及話語結構，包括句末助詞和句法。參與的項目包括 TypeDuck 粵拼輸入法、粵典 Words.hk，以及圍頭話和客家話的文字轉語音工具。
我現任香港語言學學會會長（2026–2027），以及香港本土語言保育協會副主席，並於2019年獲香港中文大學博士學位。
See Output for my publications and projects, Experience for my professional background.
You can call me Chaak [tʃʰɑːk] in English or 阿擇 a3 zaak6 [a˧ tsaːk̚˨] in Cantonese.