PolyU LLT

The Linguistics and Language Technology Group (LLT) was founded when Prof. Chu-Ren Huang joined CBS, PolyU in fall 2008.

[PolyU LLT @PolyULLT]

LLT: Linguistics Theory and Language Technology. This is a group led by Prof. Huang Chu-Ren at PolyU that uses inter-disciplinary approaches to study language sciences. We will share the most updated publications, projects and all the research activities we are doing with you.

[Emmanuele Chersoni @EmmanueleChers1]

Join us this weekend at @PolyUCBS or online for PACLIC 2023! This year we have a terrific schedule, with lots of talks about the recent advances in linguistics and NLP!
For the full conference schedule and the Zoom links see: https://t.co/zygB1trN2l

@EnricoSantus @nlp_pranav

[PolyU LLT @PolyULLT]

Call for abstracts✍🏻(before Nov 22): The 2023 Postgraduate Research Symposium on Linguistics and Language Data Analytics(PRSLA), co-located with PACLIC 2023.

Submission link:
https://t.co/e5XfKbddoI

More information:

https://t.co/BmoE0v4GkP

Contact: 

[email protected]

[Kathleen Ahrens, Ph.D. @kathleen_ahrens]

CSR NLP I @LREC2022 – The First Computing Social Responsibility Workshop -NLP Approaches to Corporate Social Responsibilities – Final Call for Papers - April 24
Website: https://t.co/nhx8hbKMvv
Workshop Date: June 25, 2022
#NLProc #ComputationalLinguistics

[PolyU LLT @PolyULLT]

The 30th Joint Workshop on Linguistics and Language Processing (JWLLP) program is upcoming on 26 March 2022. Current and future participants will potentially have opportunities to present their projects at this international conference!
Please find more details as follows:

[Kathleen Ahrens, Ph.D. @kathleen_ahrens]

Just published: Yin Zhong, Mingyu Wan, Kathleen Ahrens & Chu-Ren Huang (2022) Sensorimotor norms for Chinese nouns and their relationship with orthographic and semantic variables, Language, Cognition and Neuroscience. https://t.co/4qAiNqDuz2

[Kathleen Ahrens, Ph.D. @kathleen_ahrens]

Newly published: Wang, X., Ahrens, K., & Huang, C. R. (2022). The distance between illocution and perlocution: A tale of different pragmemes to call for social distancing in two cities. Intercultural Pragmatics, 19(1), 1-33.
https://t.co/TjwzPXpNt9

[PolyU LLT @PolyULLT]

Lingua Sinica 徵稿通知

第一本採取「開放訪問下載 (Open Access)」研究中國境內語言理論及其使用的國際期刊
The first Open Access international journal focuses on languages and linguistics of China
More details can be found below:

[PolyU LLT @PolyULLT]

Boost your research visibility: publish in Lingua Sinica

We would like to take this opportunity to invite you to submit your research output to Lingua Sinica to achieve the widest possible visibility and optimal international impact. Please find more details here:

[PolyU LLT @PolyULLT]

Open Access content can be accessed online at
https://t.co/yJLg5f41MI

Huang, Chu-Ren, Shu-Kai Hsieh, & Keh-Jiann, Chen. (2017). Mandarin Chinese words and parts of speech: A corpus-based study. Routledge.
Open Access: Chapters 6-14 & Appendix V-VIII

[PolyU LLT @PolyULLT]

@PolyUCBS, K.D., Xu, H., German, J.S. & C.R. Huang. Database of word-level statistics for Mandarin Chinese (DoWLS-MAN). Behavior Research Methods (2021).

Quick Access Link: https://t.co/4L63OdoWSz

[PolyU LLT @PolyULLT]

Quick access link：https://t.co/ihjqtzKxZw
Su, Q., Liu, P., Wei, W. , Zhu S. & C.-R. Huang. Occupational gender segregation and gendered language in a language without gender: trends, variations, implications for social development in China. Humanit Soc Sci Commun 8, 133 (2021).

[Kathleen Ahrens, Ph.D. @kathleen_ahrens]

Dr. Meng-Han Jiang is the lead author @PolyUCBS @PolyULLT and a rising star in corpus linguistics and lexical semantics.

[Kathleen Ahrens, Ph.D. @kathleen_ahrens]

I hope to see you there! @RaAMconf @MetaphorLabAms @agdorst @AllisonC23 @JeannetteL16 @AndreasMusolff @elenasemino @VeronikaKoller @PolyULLT @PolyUCBS

[PolyU LLT @PolyULLT]

Zhong, Yin, and Chu-ren Huang. "Sweetness or Mouthfeel: A corpus-based study of the conceptualization of taste." Linguistic Research. 37.3 (2020): 359-387.
https://t.co/IBjK36kaQn

*Linguistic Research is a SCOPUS (Q2) and ESCI indexed open access journal.@HKPolyUENGL @PolyUCBS

[Kathleen Ahrens, Ph.D. @kathleen_ahrens]

Free download for in press paper on "Framing metaphor use over time: ‘Free Economy’ metaphors in Hong Kong political discourse (1997–2017)" https://t.co/xjBZvd3FjJ @HKPolyUENGL @RaAMconf @CFBurgers @Winnie_H_Zeng @PolyULLT @MetaphorInAds @MetaphorMagnet @MetaphorLabAms @PolyULLT

[Kathleen Ahrens, Ph.D. @kathleen_ahrens]

Just accepted in PlosOne: Jiang, M., Shen, X., Ahrens, K.& Huang, C.-R, 2021. Neologisms are Epidemic: Modeling the Life Cycle of Neologisms in China 2008-2016. @HongKongPolyU @HKPolyUENGL @PolyULLT @PolyUCBS

[PolyU LLT @PolyULLT]

A new look at the interaction among environment, human, and language, through kinesis of weather events.

PolyU’s first paper published in the only Nature series journal dedicated to the Humanities and Social Sciences: https://t.co/KIaN1ViJdi

@PolyUCBS @HKPolyUENGL

[Humanities & Social Sciences Communications @HSScomms]

Published today: From language to meteorology: kinesis in weather events and weather verbs across Sinitic languages https://t.co/Zj7bmGPYLH

[PolyU LLT @PolyULLT]

International Roundtable Seminar on Advances in Corpus Applications in Literary and Translation Studies
December 20, 2020
https://t.co/kgrnZVGmbq

[PolyU LLT @PolyULLT]

Can weather influence linguistic expressions? A new Lingua paper on a typology of meteorological terms is freely accessible for limited time till 1 Feb. 2021@ https://t.co/ArUO1GoqNr

@HongKongPolyU @PolyUCBS @HKPolyUENGL