Alvin Cheng-Hsien Chen

I am a linguist, teaching at the Department of English, National Taiwan Normal University, Taiwan. My research interests revolve around quantitative corpus-linguistic analyses on the inter-relationship between language, interaction and cognition. In particular, I am interested in the computational modeling of language use, its applications in language learning, and its implications for mental representation.


Sources of Inspirations

[B]ecause language is a means of communicating mental concepts between humans, understanding language requires an understanding of human mental processess.

Peter Norvig (1987) A Unified Theory of Inference for Text Understanding

It is the mark of a truly intelligent person to be moved by statistics.

George Bernard Shaw

Your connections to all the things around you literally define who you are.

Aaron O’Connell

學會說:「關你屁事,關我屁事。」可解決人生百分之九十九的煩惱。

江明 《別在風暴中坐以待斃》

Where I teach


: alvinchen@ntnu.edu.tw
: +886-2-77341800
: +886-2-23634793
: No. 162, Section 1, Heping E. Rd., Department of English, National Taiwan Normal University, Taipei City 106, Taiwan.
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