About

Welcome! My name is Gábor Parti,¹ I am a linguist and philologist. In my research I am using digital technologies in philological and humanities research. I am interested in linguistic and cultural exchange along historic trade routes in Asia, especially around the Indian Ocean world and the Maritime Silk Road. My focus is on how to collect, store, process, analyze, and present humanities data in new and exciting ways. I am fascinated by etymology, pre-modern travel, and network theory.

I am a fresh Ph.D. graduate and a postdoctoral fellow at The Hong Kong Polytechnic University (PolyU). At PolyU, I have studied corpus linguistics, computational linguistics, and I learned about various techniques in natural language processing, machine learning, artificial intelligence, and dash of data science. Previously I have received training in traditional philology from various oriental departments at the Eötvös Loránd University (ELTE) in Budapest, including Semitic and Arabic studies, Korean studies, Islamic studies, and Indology.

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My Ph.D. dissertation is titled Mapping the Language of Spices: A Corpus-Based, Philological Study on the Words of the Spice Domain, and it aims to be a linguistic account of the items of the spice trade. It is about spices and spice names, their diffusion around the globe, and the relationship between materials and words. The project was supervised by Prof. Chu-Ren Huang, and funded by the Hong Kong PhD Fellowship Scheme (HKPFS) from the Research Grants Council (RGC) of the Hong Kong SAR. The dissertation is also accompanied by an online database, the Spice & Spice Terminology Database 1.2. The dissertation was subsequently awarded with a Distinguished Thesis Award on faculty level, and it was published in Sino-Platonic Papers (no. 338) edited by Prof. Victor Mair.

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2019-2023   PhD in East Asian Linguistics, The Hong Kong Polytechnic University (PolyU) | Hong Kong

2014–2017   MA in Islamic Studies, Eötvös Loránd University (ELTE) | Budapest

2010–2014   BA in Korean Studies, Eötvös Loránd University (ELTE) | Budapest

2009–2014   BA in Arabian Studies, Eötvös Loránd University (ELTE) | Budapest

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2023       Data Science Summer School 2023 (DS3), Hertie School Data Science Lab | Online

2022       Corpus Linguistics Summer School 2022, University of Birmingham | Online

2021       Digital Humanities at Oxford Summer School (DHOx2021), University of Oxford | Online

2017–2018   Indonesian Language Course, Yogyakarta State University (UNY) | Yogyakarta

Darmasiswa Scholarship Program from the Republic of Indonesia

2015       Arabic language course, Institut Bourguiba des Langues Vivantes | Tunis

Scholarship from the Republic of Tunisia