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Cantao Su

I’m a PhD candidate, supervised by Dr. Dong Nguyen in the NLP and Society Lab at Utrecht University in the Netherlands. More specifically, I work on themes like embedding models and data diversity measurement, within the DataDivers project.

Previously, I obtained my master’s degree in Voice Technology from University of Groningen, where I worked on dysarthric speech recognition, and my bachelor’s degree in Korean Language and Literature from Beijing International Studies University.

More broadly, I’m drawn to language itself — how people perceive it, how they learn it, and how it marks who they are. The Research page has the specifics.

Research

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Three components of diversity: variety (number of groups), balance (evenness across groups) and disparity (distance between groups).
Paper Oct. 2026

Measuring Data Diversity with Embeddings: A Taxonomy and Benchmark for Diversity Measures

C. Su, A. Wegmann, E. Ploeger, D. Nguyen · EMNLP 2026 (Main)
Overview of emb-diversity: two datasets are embedded, several diversity measures are computed on the embeddings, and the resulting scores are compared.
Paper Jul. 2026

emb-diversity: A Tool for Embedding-Based Measurement of Data Diversity

C. Su, M. Velayuthan, E. Ploeger, D. Nguyen, A. Wegmann · arXiv preprint
Thesis Jun. 2024

Enhancing English Dysarthric Speech Recognition with Age-Matched Healthy Speech: A Fine-Tuning Approach Using wav2vec 2.0

MSc thesis · University of Groningen

News

Jan. 2026

UniDive

Yerevan, Armenia
Sep. 2025

AthNLP

Athens, Greece

Shelf

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Book Oct. 2026

Normal People2019

Sally Rooney
Book Oct. 2026

太古和其他的时间2017

[波兰] 奥尔加·托卡尔丘克 · Prawiek i inne czasy
Film Oct. 2026

姥姥的外孙

Film Oct. 2026

故园风雨后