中央研究院語言學研究所

我的研究包括語言學和計算語言學等兩個領域：

語言學方面包含語言習得、實驗語言學、歷史語言學等。主要研究方法使用電腦模型和語言習得的方法，對句法和語義的問題提出新的見解。目前進行過的研究包括華語的非賓格性、排灣語的態的語言習得等。歷史語言學部分，我曾做過台語介繫詞的語法化和西夏文的（助）動詞的解釋等題目。

計算語言學方面，我關注使用語言資料進行疾病如失語症、失智症、過動症、自閉症分類的研究以及低資源語言（台灣南島語等）的大型語言模型評測和領域適應等問題。

2024/7~2024/9 夏威夷大學資訊及電腦工程學系博士後研究
2024/10~ 本所助研究員

教育部留學獎學金
夏威夷大學成績優秀獎學金
波士頓大學第45、46屆語言發展會議（BUCLD-45, 46）Paula Menyuk Award （最高評分摘要）
美國東西中心基礎獎學金
日本交流協會獎學金

Lin, Kaiying, & Kamil Ud Deen (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. 2026LSA 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 46^thBoston 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 45^thBoston 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. 32^nd North American Conference on Chinese Linguistics (NACCL-32), University of Connecticut, CT, USA
Lin, Kaiying. (2020). An Ergative Marker Revisited in Tangut. 32^nd 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. 17^th 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. 25^th 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 32^nd 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.

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