Kai-ying Kevin LIN (Khai-in LIM)
Assistant Research Fellow
Expertise
Language acquisition, Experimental Linguistics, Comptutational Linguistics, Syntax, Clinical Linguistics, Historical Linguistics
Education
PhD in Linguistics, University of Hawaii
MS in Information and Computer Science, University of Hawaii
MA in Chinese linguistics, Humanities and Social Science, University of Tokyo
BA in Japanese language and literature, National Taiwan University (minor in Political Science, International relations)
MS in Information and Computer Science, University of Hawaii
MA in Chinese linguistics, Humanities and Social Science, University of Tokyo
BA in Japanese language and literature, National Taiwan University (minor in Political Science, International relations)
E-mail
limkhaiin@as.edu.tw
My research crosses two important aspects:
Linguistics:
My research areas include language acquisition, experimental linguistics, computational modeling, and historical linguistics. I employed computational models and language acquisition approaches to offer new insights into issues of syntax and semantics. Previous research topics include Mandarin unaccusativity and the Voice system in Paiwan. In the domain of historical linguistics, my work focuses on the grammaticalization of prepositions in Taiwanese and the interpretation of (auxiliary) verbs in Tangut.
Computational Linguistics:
My research involves using NLP data to conduct classification tasks regarding healthcare issues, such as aphasia, dementia, ADHD, and autism. The research approaches include fine-tuning and evaluation of large language models (LLMs). In addition, I am also interested in low-resource language research, including the evaluation and adaptation of LLMs in data-scarce settings.
Linguistics:
My research areas include language acquisition, experimental linguistics, computational modeling, and historical linguistics. I employed computational models and language acquisition approaches to offer new insights into issues of syntax and semantics. Previous research topics include Mandarin unaccusativity and the Voice system in Paiwan. In the domain of historical linguistics, my work focuses on the grammaticalization of prepositions in Taiwanese and the interpretation of (auxiliary) verbs in Tangut.
Computational Linguistics:
My research involves using NLP data to conduct classification tasks regarding healthcare issues, such as aphasia, dementia, ADHD, and autism. The research approaches include fine-tuning and evaluation of large language models (LLMs). In addition, I am also interested in low-resource language research, including the evaluation and adaptation of LLMs in data-scarce settings.
- 2024/7~2024/9 Postdoctoral Assistant in Information and Computer Science, University of Hawaii
- 2024/10~ Assistant Research Fellow
- Government Scholarship to Study Abroad, Taiwan (2-year scholarship $16,000/yr.)
- Achievement scholarship, University of Hawai'i, Manoa (a cumulative GPA of 3.5 or above)
- Paula Menyuk Award (Top-rated abstracts), 45, 46th Boston University Conference Language Development (BUCLD-45, 46)
- East-West Center Foundation Scholarships（$ 8,000/yr.）
- The Scholarship of Interchange Association, Japan (3-year Full scholarship, full tuition waiver, stipend approximately $17, 300/yr.)
- Lin, Kaiying (In press). Semantic gradients mediate Mandarin-speaking children’s acquisition of unaccusativity. Language Acquisition.
- Lin, Kaiying, Abdur Rasool, Saimourya Surabhi, Cezmi Mutlu, Haopeng Zhang, Dennis P Wall, Peter Washington (2025). Aiding Large Language Models Using Clinical Scoresheets for Neurobehavioral Diagnostic Classification From Text: Algorithm Development and Validation. JMIR AI 4, e75030.
- Ali Kargarandehkordi, Shizhe Li, Kaiying Lin, Kristina T Phillips, Roberto M Benzo, Peter Washington. (2025). Fusing wearable biosensors with artificial intelligence for mental health monitoring: A systematic review. Biosensors 15 (4), 202.
- Lin, Kaiying, & Peter Y. Washington. (2024). Multimodal deep learning for dementia classification using text and audio. Scientific Reports 14, 13887. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-024-64438-1.
- Lim, Khai-in. (2020). Causatives and Causativization in Tangut language. International Journal of Chinese Linguistics (IJChL) 6:2, p.238-259. https://doi.org/10.1075/ijchl.18010.lim
- Lim, Khai-in. (2015). The Historical Changes of “ka7(共)” in Taiwanese. Bulletin of the Research Room of Chinese Linguistics and Literature at the University of Tokyo, 18, p.1-31.
- Lin, Kaiying. (2026). Bayesian Modeling Reveals Underlying Binary Verb Classes. 2026 LSA Annual Meeting, Sheraton New Orleans Marriott in New Orleans, Louisiana, LA, USA.
- Kaiying Kevin Lin, Hsi-Yu Chen, & Haopeng Zhang. (2025). FormosanBench: Benchmarking Low-Resource Austronesian Languages in the Era of Large Language Models. EMNLP, Suzhou, China.
- Joseph Lin, Kai-Ying Lin and Hung-Yu Kao (2025). From Scarcity to Scalability: Lexicon and Grammar Enhanced Amis to Mandarin Translation with GPT Models. The 37th Conference on Computational Linguistics and Speech Processing (ROCLING 2025), Taipei, Taiwan.
- Lin, Kaiying. (2025). Do Mandarin speakers retain categories for unaccusativity? Architectures and Mechanisms for Language Processing Asia (AmLaP), Charles University, Prague, Czech Republic.
- Lin, Kaiying, Patrick O'Neil, Joshua Hartshorne. (2025). What Can Be Learned from Sparse Voice Distributions? A Bayesian Data Analysis of Verb-Voice Associations in a Philippine-Type Language, Crosslinguistic Perspectives on Processing and Learning (X-PPL), Zurich, Switzerland.
- Lin, Kaiying (2025). FormosanBench. Computational and Instrumental Research in Linguistics, Academia Sinica, Taipei, Taiwan
- Lin, Kaiying. (2024). A perspective from Bayesian learning on unaccusativity. Architectures and Mechanisms for Language Processing Asia (AmLaP Asia), Singapore, Singapore.
- Lin, Kaiying. (2024). How categories of intransitive verbs are formed? The interaction between meaning and grammar based on evidence from children’s acquisition. Poster Presentation at the annual meeting of the Cognitive Science Society (Cogsci 2024), Rotterdam, Netherland.
- Lin, Kaiying. (2024). Verb + ‘to do’ construction in Tangut. Talk at the 36th North American Conference on Chinese Linguistics (NACCL-36), Pomona College, Claremont, CA, USA. (withdrawn)
- Lin, Kaiying, & Kamil Ud Deen. (2024). Categorizing intransitive verbs in child Mandarin: meaning versus syntax. Poster Presentation at 2024 LSA Annual Meeting, Sheraton New York Times Square, New York, NY, USA.
- Deen, Kamil, Patrick Brennan, Yu-tzu Chang, Raymond Daniels, Youngin Lee, Kaiying Lin, Akari Ohba, Anupama Reddy, Alexander Tang, Shigeo Tonoike, Annika Topelian, JueWang, Mayuko Yusa, Louward Allen Zubiri (2023). Subsets from supersets: how children correctly interpret presubject only. Poster Presentation at 48th Boston University Conference Language Development (BUCLD-48), Boston University, MA, USA.
- Lin, Kaiying, & Peter Y. Wahington. (2023). The categorization of intransitive verbs: Evidence from word2vec modeling and a behavioral experiment. Poster Presentation at the annual meeting of the Cognitive Science Society (Cogsci 2023), Sydney, Australia
- Lin, Kaiying, Yu-tzu Chang, & Kamil Ud Deen. (2021) Child acquisition of Voice in the Paiwan language. Talk at 46th Boston University Conference Language Development (BUCLD-46), Boston University, MA, USA. (Received Paula Menyuk Award)
- Lin, Kaiying, & Kamil Ud Deen. (2020). Unaccusativity in child Mandarin language. Talk at 45th Boston University Conference Language Development (BUCLD-45), Boston University, MA, USA. (Received Paula Menyuk Award)
- Lin, Kaiying, & Kamil Ud Deen. (2020). Unaccusative and unergative verbs in Child Mandarin Chinese. 32nd North American Conference on Chinese Linguistics (NACCL-32), University of Connecticut, CT, USA
- Lin, Kaiying. (2020). An Ergative Marker Revisited in Tangut. 32nd North American Conference on Chinese Linguistics (NACCL-32), University of Connecticut, CT, USA
- Lin, Kaiying, & Kamil Ud Deen. (2019). Using an Acceptability Judgement Task to test Unaccusativity on Mandarin Child. Chuo-UHM-UTokyo Student Conference on Linguistics, Psycholinguistics, and Second Language Acquisition, University of Hawai’i, Manoa.
- Lin, Kaiying, & Kamil Ud Deen. (2019). Unaccusativity in child Mandarin Chinese: an experiment from aspect selection and subject positions. UHM-NINJAL Linguistics Workshop on Syntax-Semantics Interface, Language Acquisition, and Naturalistic Data Analysis, University of Hawai’i, Honolulu, HI, USA
- Lin, Kaiying, & Yu-hsin Chang. (2018). A pilot study on directional and resultative complements of Japanese and Korean L2 Mandarin Chinese learners. 17th International Annual Conference of Teaching Chinese as a Second Language, Dong-hwa University, Hua-lian, Taiwan
- Lim, Khai-in. (2017). Applicative patient ka7 in Taiwanese Southern Min. 25th Annual Meeting of the International Association of Chinese Linguistics (IACL). Research Institute for Linguistics (Hungarian Academy of Sciences) and Eötvös Loránd University, Budapest, Hungary.
- Lim, Khai-in. (2016). The historical change of handing verb in Taiwanese. 66th Annual Meeting of Chinese Language Society of Japan, Ritsumeikan Asia Pacific University, Oita, Japan
- Lim, Khai-in. (2016). Applicatives and causatives. 49th International Conference on Sino-Tibetan Languages and Linguistics. Jinan University, Guangzhou, China
- Lim, Khai-in. (2016). The historical evolution of the ‘give’ verb in Southern Min. 29th Paris meeting on East Asian Linguistics, l’Ecole de hautes études en sciences sociales, Paris, France.
- Lim, Khai-in. (2014). The historical changes of “ka7(共)” in Taiwanese. Regional regular meetings in the Kanto area of the Chinese Language Society of Japan. Waseda University, Tokyo, Japan
- Kaiying K. Lin, Hsi-Yu Chen, & Haopeng Zhang. (2025). FormosanBench: Benchmarking Low-Resource Austronesian Languages in the Era of Large Language Models. In Findings of the Association for Computational Linguistics: EMNLP 2025, pages 16527–16539, Suzhou, China. Association for Computational Linguistics.
- Lin, Kaiying. (2024). How are categories of intransitive verbs formed? The interaction between meaning and grammar based on evidence from children’s acquisition. In L. K. Samuelson, S. L. Frank, M. Toneva, A. Mackey & E. Hazeltine (Eds.) Proceedings of the 46th Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Science Society , p.5958-5965.
- Lin, Kaiying, & Peter Y. Washington. (2023). The categorization of intransitive verbs: Evidence from word2vec modeling and a behavioral experiment. In M. Goldwater, F. K. Anggoro, B. K. Hayes, & D. C. Ong (Eds.), Proceedings of the 45th Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Science Society, p.1990-1997.
- Lin, Kaiying, Yu-tzu Chang, Kamil Ud Deen. (2022). Child acquisition of Voice in Paiwan language In Y. Gong and F. Kpogo (Eds.), Proceedings of the 46th Annual Boston University Conference on Language Development, p.456-468, Somerville, MA: Cascadilla Press.
- Lin, Kaiying & Kamil Ud Deen. (2021). Unaccusativity in child Mandarin language. In D. Dionne and L.-A. Vidal Covas (Eds.), Proceedings of the 45th Annual Boston University Conference on Language Development, p.486-498. Somerville, MA: Cascadilla Press.
- Lin, Kaiying & Kamil Ud Deen. (2021). Unaccusative and unergative verbs in Child Mandarin Chinese. In Proceedings of 32nd North American Conference on Chinese Linguistics (NACCL-32).
- Lim, Khai-in. (2021). An Ergative Marker Revisited in Tangut. In Proceedings of 32nd North American Conference on Chinese Linguistics (NACCL-32).
- Lin, Kaiying & Yu-hsin Chang. (2019). A pilot study on directional and resultative complements of Japanese and Korean L2 Mandarin Chinese learners. Proceedings of 17th International Annual Conference of Teaching Chinese as a Second Language, p.517-523.
