Powering Up Grapheme-to-Phoneme Conversion for Old Chinese
Alan Ding ’22, NLP+Humanities Fellow at the CDH, implemented a neural network to predict the pronunciation of Old Chinese characters.
Alan Ding
2021 NLP+Humanities Undergraduate Summer Fellow
Alan Ding ’22 hails from the Columbus, Ohio area, and is pursuing a major in computer science as well as a certificate in statistics and machine learning. With the Center for Digital Humanities, he is working as a summer fellow with the New Languages for NLP program on context-aware predictions of Classical Chinese phonology. He is also broadly interested in researching the applications of computational, statistical, and mathematical techniques to improving various aspects of political and societal spheres, such as combatting gerrymandering. On campus, Alan is primarily involved with the Princeton Running Club, Princeton Undergraduate Composers Collective, and the Princeton University Wind Ensemble.