Vincent B. Y. Ooi

ORCID: 0000-0002-8005-7407
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Research Areas
  • Natural Language Processing Techniques
  • Lexicography and Language Studies
  • linguistics and terminology studies
  • Linguistics, Language Diversity, and Identity
  • Translation Studies and Practices
  • Linguistic research and analysis
  • Second Language Acquisition and Learning
  • Linguistic Variation and Morphology
  • Multilingual Education and Policy
  • Language, Discourse, Communication Strategies
  • Neurobiology of Language and Bilingualism
  • Linguistic Education and Pedagogy
  • Digital Communication and Language
  • Modular Robots and Swarm Intelligence
  • Text Readability and Simplification
  • Robotics and Sensor-Based Localization
  • Publishing and Scholarly Communication
  • Historical Linguistics and Language Studies
  • Speech and dialogue systems
  • Mathematics, Computing, and Information Processing
  • Robotics and Automated Systems
  • Semantic Web and Ontologies
  • Language Development and Disorders
  • Dementia and Cognitive Impairment Research
  • Discourse Analysis in Language Studies

National University of Singapore
1997-2025

Imperial College London
2019

Abstract Treebanks (parsed corpora) play an important role in linguistic research, but creating high-quality parses can be very labor-intensive. This paper discusses the prospects of such context New Englishes and what kinds research insights deliver. We present Singapore English as a case study. suggest that despite many contact-derived lexical grammatical properties English, it is quite feasible to apply off-the-shelf American parser generate English. In addition, we exploratory analysis...

10.1075/eww.23069.hua article EN English World-Wide A Journal of Varieties of English 2025-03-21

Patients with Alzheimer's disease present difficulty in lexical retrieval and reversal of the concreteness effect nouns. Little is known about phenomena before onset symptoms. We anticipate early linguistic signs speech people who suffer from amnestic mild cognitive impairment (MCI). Here, we report results a corpus-linguistic approach to detection impairment.

10.1002/dad2.12588 article EN cc-by-nc Alzheimer s & Dementia Diagnosis Assessment & Disease Monitoring 2024-04-01

1National University of Singapore Corpus Linguistics at Work (Studies in Linguistics.) ElenaTognini‐Bonelli AmsterdamJohn Benjamins 200122390 272 2276 2 (Europe), 1 58811 061 3 (USA)

10.1093/llc/17.2.263 article EN Literary and Linguistic Computing 2002-06-01

Further to the idea suggested in Ooi (2000) that Sinclair's most recent lexical model can be considered for examining linguistic phenomena on Web such as electronic gaming, this paper proposes refine methodology discovering units of meaning popular online genre. The evidence comes from an approximately 1-million word corpus comprising advertising descriptions, gaming reviews, and discussion forums among participants. This dataset is first subjected integrated tool, WMatrix, which affords...

10.1093/ijl/ecn021 article EN International Journal of Lexicography 2008-05-31

Abstract It is well‐known that Outer Circle English has undergone extensive contact‐induced lexical and grammatical restructuring. Is it possible to use common NLP tools developed for Inner process texts? Here, we report our experience of using the Stanford PoS tagger tag Singaporean component International Corpus (ICE‐SIN). We isolate two major contact‐related causes tagging errors: (1) loans directly borrowed from local languages; (2) English‐origin words with new meanings acquired...

10.1111/weng.12597 article EN World Englishes 2022-07-21

10.1515/9783110223231.2.143 article EN Lexicographica - International Annual for Lexicography / Internationales Jahrbuch für Lexikographie 2010-12-13

Abstract It is well-documented that patients with semantic dementia and Alzheimer’s disease present difficulty in lexical retrieval reversal of the concreteness effect nouns verbs. Little known about phenomena before onset symptoms. We anticipate there are linguistic signs speech people who suffer from mild cognitive impairment (MCI), prodromal stage dementia. Here, we report results a novel corpus-linguistic approach to early detection impairment. recorded 40 hours natural, unconstrained...

10.21203/rs.3.rs-1136322/v1 preprint EN cc-by Research Square (Research Square) 2021-12-29

This article proposes a ‘Concentric Circles Model’ (CCM) for diglossic ‘balancing’ of both prescriptivist and descriptivist concerns regarding English usage in Japan. The model draws on theories lexical priming cultural intelligence, characterises the construct ‘Japanese English’ as inseparable from speaker’s prior linguistic, societal experiences. Codification is an important step towards legitimisation non-native variety such Japanese English; at same time, dictionary has become more fluid...

10.1080/13488678.2021.1876952 article EN Asian Englishes 2021-01-02
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