Welcome

Tong is a first year MSc student in [Computational Linguistics].[Artificial Intelligence].[DCS@UofT]. His supervisor is Professor Graeme Hirst.

He held a BSc degree in a joint program of CS and maths and a MSc in automatic control theory from [Northeastern University] in Shenyang, China. Adding to his ESL teaching experience, it's not surprising that one day he woke up thinking about putting CS, maths and linguistics together and came to Toronto for study and research in computational linguistics.

In his spare time, Tong plays a lot of tennis and billiard and is a novice photographer.

Winter08

• CSC2511 - Natural Language Computing
• CSC2125 - Topics in Software Engineering.

• CSC2501 - Computational Linguistics
• CSC2404 - Computability and Logic.

Winter08

• CSC104 - The How and Why of Computing.

• CSC148 - Introduction to Computer Science.

Currently Tong's research interests are in 1). clustering of semantically related words, 2). representing and extracting nuances of near synonyms and 3) developing evaluation framework for such representation and extraction. His approach to such problems is characteristic in the use of machine readable dictionaries.