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Jian Zhu is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Linguistics at the University of British Columbia. He focuses on the processing of spoken language and engages in various research themes such as evolving language and the information economy. His work primarily centers around natural language processing and computational social science, with a specific emphasis on unsupervised and semi-supervised methods for tasks like speech segmentation and alignment, multilingual speech processing, and spoken information retrieval. Furthermore, Jian's expertise integrates linguistic theories with data-driven methodologies from network science and machine learning, demonstrating a commitment to advancing the field of linguistics through empirical research.
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