Penelope Gia Bao Huu Nguyen

Penelope Gia Bao Huu Nguyen is a UKRI Doctoral Fellow on the Marie Skłodowska-Curie Doctoral Network, CASCADE. She is working on the automation of concepts through time via the automatic construction of an English-language historical thesaurus. Penelope holds a bachelor’s degree in English Studies from Can Tho University in Vietnam, where she first developed her passion for linguistics, particularly in the field of pragmatics. As a Fulbright scholar, she completed her master’s in Linguistics at Purdue University (USA), focusing on impoliteness and emoji usage on Vietnamese Facebook pages. Her research integrates computational and corpus linguistics to address questions that advance linguistic theory and interdisciplinary fields.