My name is Huteng Dai (xu˨˩.tʰəŋ˧˥.tai˥˨) or Dai Huteng 戴虎腾 in Chinese order [the meaning of my name].
I'm a fifth-year PhD candidate at the Rutgers Department of Linguistics. I'm also affiliated with Rutgers Center for Cognitive Science, Rutgers Computational Linguistics Lab, and UCI Language Processing Group. I am currently a student organizer of Rutgers Phonology and Phonetics Research Group (PhonX).
I am a computational linguist and theoretical phonologist. My research program synthesizes linguistic theory and computational analysis to develop interpretable learning models that are mathematically well-grounded and succeed with real-world data.
My recent projects investigate phonological acquisition from noisy input.
Research interests
Theoretical and methodological: |
| Computational Learning Theory |
Language acquisition |
| Formal Language Theory |
Psycholinguistic and Neurolinguistic methods |
| Information Theory |
Field methods |
Empirical: |
| Phonotactics |
Turkic |
| Harmony patterns |
Caucasian |
| Tone and prosody |
Chinese |
Recent activities:
- 2023 Feb, I submitted a draft on exceptionality in phonotactic learning [Link]. Comments are welcome!
- 2023 Spring, I will teach Introduction to Linguistic Theory for Rutgers Honors College.
- 2022 Nov. 4, Invited talk at MIT Exp/Comp group [link].
- 2022 Oct. 28, Invited talk at UCI QuantLang Lab.
- 2022 Oct. 21–23, I presented my third AMP talk at AMP 2022 @UCLA. [Slides][Code Demo][Photo]
- 2022 Sept. 22–25, Workshop on Model Theoretic Representations in Phonology: Talk. Huteng Dai. "Learning phonological constraints in the presence of exceptions".
- 2021 October 1–3, AMP 2021: Talk. Huteng Dai and Richard Futrell. "Learning Phonotactics in a Differentiable Framework of Subregular Languages" [Slides].
- 2021 August 5, ACL SIGMORPHON 2021: Talk. Huteng Dai and Richard Futrell. "Simple induction of (deterministic) probabilistic finite-state automata for phonotactics by stochastic gradient descent" [Paper].
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