CHINESE LINGUISTICS. CINEMATIC CURIOSITY.
HAZELCHEN HANZHANG
01 / ASKING WHYAI &
AI &
Linguistics.
Chinese linguistics.
Language, meaning & AI.
02 / ASKING WHAT IFFilmmaking &
Filmmaking &
Localization.
Film. Photography.
Worlds beyond the frame.
MOVE YOUR CURSOR · EXPLORE BOTH SIDES
01 / THE PERSONHELLO, WORLD.
A curious mind.
Two different lenses.
✳ONE PERSON.
TWO WAYS OF SEEING.
TWO WAYS OF SEEING.
I’m Hazel, a PhD candidate in Chinese Linguistics at NTU Singapore. I work where language, technology and storytelling meet.
From the smallest shift in a Mandarin sentence to a story on screen, I’m interested in how meaning travels — and what changes along the way.
02 / TWO SIDESONE PERSON. TWO PERSPECTIVES.
CHINESE LINGUISTICS × AISmall words.
Small words.
Big questions.
Exploring meaning in Singaporean and Taiwanese Mandarin, with an interest in semantic roles, grammaticalization and language evolution.
My work combines linguistic analysis with BERT embeddings, semantic similarity and clustering. Translation, localization and interpreting connect that research to how meaning travels across cultures.
GLOBAL MANDARINNLPLINGUISTIC ANNOTATION
EXPLORE THE RESEARCH ↘FILMMAKING × PHOTOGRAPHYFinding stories.
Finding stories.
Making frames.
My creative practice spans screenwriting, directing, producing and photography, informed by an undergraduate background in Theatre, Film and Television.
I’ve worked on script review, cultural consultation and script supervision, and edited film, entertainment and sports content for Xinhua News Agency.
SCREENWRITINGPHOTOGRAPHYEDITING
EXPLORE THE FILMS ↘03 / SELECTED WORKA FEW THINGS I’VE PUT MY MIND TO.
In the making.
PROJECT VISUALS ARE EDITORIAL INTERPRETATIONS, NOT ORIGINAL FILM POSTERS.
04 / RESEARCH NOTESIDEAS OUT IN THE WORLD.
Off the page.
Into conversation.
Selected conference presentations across linguistics, translation and cinema.
Temple Crimes: Resisting Orientalism and the Colonial Gaze in Singaporean Cinema
74th ICA Conferencewith Ian Dixon
Machine Translation of Heterolingual Subtitles in Singaporean Films
Translation, Communication& Intercultural Studies · NTU
05 / OFF DUTYTHERE’S ALWAYS ANOTHER SIDE.
Outside
the lines.
Usually watching Formula 1, playing the F1 or GTA games, or getting lost in a sci-fi film or novel.
The Matrix and Pacific Rim are favourites. Great recommendations are always welcome.
SEND ME A RECOMMENDATION ↗THE CURIOSITY CIRCUITSG / 01