Lea Tuan Anh Le
Software Engineer
Singapore, Vietnam
Summary
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SeniorTuan Le is a software engineer and computational linguist with 13 years of experience, a PhD from Nanyang Technological University, and deep expertise in computational semantics and language documentation. He builds robust NLP tools by combining structural and lexical semantics—applying Sign-Based Construction Grammar and Systemic Functional Linguistics—to produce fully traceable, well-documented datasets and analyses. Comfortable across Python, Kotlin/Java, and Lisp, he prefers GNU/Linux and Emacs for most of his work and Android Studio for mobile projects. Beyond research-grade tooling, he contributes to free software and pursues language learning and personal development coaching, blending technical rigor with human-centered interests. An interesting detail: his dissertation and project materials emphasize producing a "complete stack trace" for every linguistic abstraction, reflecting an unusual commitment to provenance and reproducibility in language resources.
13 years of coding experience
Github Skills (41)
linguistics10
python10
conll10
corpus10
nltk10
transcription10
praat10
mecab10
dictionary10
kanji10
ontologies9
machine-learning9
natural-language-processing9
text-processing9
wordnet9
Programming languages (5)
Github contributions (5)
letuananh/texttaglib
Mar 2018 - May 2021
a Python library for managing and annotating text corpuses in different formats.
Contributions:6 releases, 12 PRs, 76 pushes in 3 years 2 months
nlppython-librarypythonformatsnatural-language-processing
letuananh/pysemcor
Dec 2014 - Oct 2020
Contributions:1 release, 24 commits, 14 pushes in 5 years 11 months
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