Hakyung Sung
Contact
sungh [at] hawaii [dot] edu
About Me
I am an Assistant Professor in the Department of Second Language Studies at the University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa. I study how second language learners use words and grammatical structures at different levels of proficiency. More broadly, I hope to contribute to the development and validation of empirical measures for learner corpus research. To do this, I use natural language processing to extract and quantify linguistic features from learner corpora, while also building, documenting, and publicly releasing related resources.
📣 PhD Student Recruitment (Fall 2027)
I am looking to work with one PhD student beginning in Fall 2027. Potential research topics include, but are not limited to:
- Corpus-based analysis of learner language
- Multilingual research on NLP and language models
- Usage-based approaches to second language development
Candidates with a master’s degree in a language-related field and some training in quantitative research methods would be a good fit for this position. If you are considering applying and would like to discuss potential research fit, please feel free to email me.
| Position | 4 years of support (through a Graduate Assistantship) |
|---|---|
| Start date | August 2027 |
| Application deadline | January 1, 2027 |
| More info | UH Mānoa SLS Graduate Program |
Education
- University of Oregon, PhD in Linguistics and MS in Computer Science, 2021.9–2025.6
- Seoul National University, MA in English Language Education, 2016.3-2018.2
- Ewha Womans University, BA in English Language and Literature, 2011.3-2016.2
Misc.
| Corpus | |
|---|---|
| NLP tools | |
| Treebanks |