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PAKAWAT NAKWIJIT

Hi, my name is ภควัต นาควิจิตร; Pakawat Nakwijit (please call me TK).

I'm a unofficial PhD under the supervision of Prof. Matthew Purver at Queen Mary University of London.

My main research interests lie in Computational Linguistics, particularly its applications in the Thai language 🇹🇭. Specifically, my current research focuses on the semantics of spelling variation in Thai. For example, considering มาก and มว๊าก—while both mean "a lot", the latter seems to be "a lot more" than the former one. Similarly, มึง and เมิง both literally serve as second-person pronouns, but the latter carries a relatively less aggressive tone. Moreover, I'm also interested in Mathematics, and Philosophy in general.

Professionally, I work as a web developer and, more recently, as a project manager (?). I have contributed to the development of various web platforms, including an online magazine, a data-intensive platform designed to handle terabytes of data and generate extensive reports, and a mobile application leveraging web technologies.

Publications
  • Pakawat Nakwijit, Attapol T Rutherford, Matthew Purver. 2024. How do Encoder-only LMs Predict Closeness and Respect from Thai Conversations? In Proceedings of the 28th Workshop on the Semantics and Pragmatics of Dialogue, Trento, Italy.
  • Pakawat Nakwijit, Mahmoud Samir, and Matthew Purver. 2023. Lexicools at SemEval-2023 Task 10: Sexism Lexicon Construction via XAI. In Proceedings of the 17th International Workshop on Semantic Evaluation (SemEval-2023), pages 23–43, Toronto, Canada. Association for Computational Linguistics.
  • Pakawat Nakwijit and Matthew Purver. 2022. Misspelling Semantics in Thai. In Proceedings of the Thirteenth Language Resources and Evaluation Conference, pages 227–236, Marseille, France. European Language Resources Association.
  • Juan Ye, Pakawat Nakwijit, Martin Schiemer, Saurav Jha, and Franco Zambonelli (2020). Continual Activity Recognition with Generative Adversarial Networks, ACM Transactions on Internet of Things, 2020.
  • Pakawat Nakwijit, and Paruj Ratanaworabhan (2015). A Parser Generator using the Grammar Flow Graph. In 2015 International Computer Science and Engineering Conference (ICSEC). IEEE.
More about me
  • Try-to-be Blogger (mostly written in Thai 🇹🇭).
  • Cat Slave 😾😾😹😾😾😹
  • Big Fan of The Big Bang Theory
  • Boardgame Enthusiasts; [[BGG account]]