David MOELJADI

Indonesian, linguist, lecturer, traveler, language lover, ink painting certified instructor

Areas of interest: Indonesian grammar, Old Javanese grammar, wordnets and lexicography, corpus development, Chinese loanwords

Research and projects

Computational linguistics, corpus linguistics

• Indonesian Resource Grammar (INDRA): a computational grammar for Indonesian
• JATI: a treebank for formal Indonesian
• Cendana: a treebank for informal Indonesian
• Barasa: Indonesian SentiWordNet for sentiment analysis
• Indonesian Frog Storytelling Corpus: Indonesian written and spoken corpus
• Old Javanese computational grammar
• IndoNLP
• Morphology: Reduplications in Contemporary Indonesian Grammar (Tata Bahasa Indonesia Kontemporer)
• Syntax: Serial Verb Constructions in Contemporary Indonesian Grammar (Tata Bahasa Indonesia Kontemporer)
• Aplikasi Penyuntingan Ejaan Bahasa Indonesia (Sipebi) [Indonesian Spelling Checker Application]
• (Kaken project 23K12235, 2023/04/01–2026/03/31) Building an Error-Annotated Corpus of Learner Indonesian and Developing an Automated Writing Support for Japanese Students Using Deep Linguistic Indonesian Parsers
• (Kaken project 23H00639, 2023/04/01–2027/03/31) Building a Corpus of Linguistic Acceptability for Malay/Indonesian

Dictionaries and Lexicography

• Wordnet Bahasa: semantic dictionary of Malay languages (Malaysian and Indonesian)
• Old Javanese Wordnet: semantic dictionary of Old Javanese
• Kamus Besar Bahasa Indonesia (KBBI) Daring: online Indonesian dictionary database
• KBBI Android application, KBBI iOS application: mobile applications for KBBI Indonesian Dictionary
• Chinese loanwords in Indonesian (Sinophone), Indonesian loanword database
• Kamus Pemelajar Kanji Jepang–Indonesia (Japanese Kanji–Indonesian Learner's Dictionary): editor-in-chief

Projects I have participated in

• Onomatopoeia - what's in a name?
• DFG-Projekt: Information distribution and language structure - correlation of grammatical expressions of the noun/verb distinction and lexical information content in Tagalog, Indonesian and German
• Modality and Corpora: Analyzing modal strength in Indonesian (a corpus-based study)
• Verb class analysis accelerator for low-resource languages (The Czech Science Foundation/GAČR project)
• MALINDO Conc: online concordance system for Malay/Indonesian
• MALINDO Morph: a morphological dictionary for Malay/Indonesian
• TALPCo: TUFS Asian Language Parallel Corpus
• Nanyang Technological University - Multilingual Corpus (NTU-MC)

Recent talks and seminars