NACCL-38 Plenary Speeches
NACCL-38 FEATURED SPEAKERS
| Dr. Chu-Ren Huang | Dr. Rebecca Hwa | Dr. Hongyin Tao | Dr. Marjorie K. M. Chan |
Keynote Address
Title: Living Language and Embodied Cognition: Thoughts on the Sciences of Language Inspired by the LLM Challenge [download abstract]
Speaker: Dr. Chu-Ren Huang, The Hong Kong Polytechnic University
About the speaker
Chu-Ren Huang, Ph.D. (Cornell), Dr.h.c.(Aix-Marseille), built his academic career at Academia Sinica and The Hong Kong Polytechnic University. He is fascinated by what language can tell us about human cognition and our collective reactions to natural and social environments. His recent books include Cambridge Handbook of Chinese Linguistics, Reference Grammar of Chinese, and Student Grammar of Chinese by Cambridge. He publishes in top journals across different disciplines, including Behavior Research Methods; Computational Linguistics; Cognitive Linguistics; Corpus Linguistics and Linguistic Theories; Humanities and Social Sciences Communications; IEEE Transactions in Affective Computing; Knowledge-based Systems; Language, Cognition and Neuroscience; Language Resources and Evaluation; Language Sciences; Lingua; Linguistics, Linguistics Vanguard; Natural Language Processing; PLoS One; Sage Open; Scientific Reports; etc. He is a Top 2% (Career Long) Scientist in Artificial Intelligence and Image Processing since 2024.
黄居仁，香港理工大学语言科学与技术学系讲座教授。研究方向包括汉语语言学、语料库语言学、数字人文、自然语言处理等。2024-2025 Stanford/Elsevier 生涯累计顶尖学者(AI 领域前百分之二)。美国康乃尔大学博士，法国艾克斯–马赛大学名誉博士。带领建构汉语平衡语料库、历史语料库、结构树库、词网、双语知识本体等语言资源。出版包括《Chinese Language Resources》《Cambridge Handbook of Chinese Linguistics》《Language and Ontology》等二十六本专书或期刊专号，160篇期刊论文， 150篇专书论文，及600篇会议论文。论文见于Behavior Research Methods, Computational Linguistics; Cognitive Linguistics; Corpus Linguistics and Linguistic Theories; Digital Scholarship in the Humanities, Humanities and Social Sciences Communications,IEEE Transactions on Affective Computing, Intercultural Pragmatics, Journal of Chinese Linguistics, Knowledge-based Systems; Language, Cognition and Neuroscience; Language Sciences; Language Resources and Evaluation; Linguistic Vanguard, Natural Language Processing; Perspectives, PLoS One; SageOpen, Scientific Reports 等期刊。
Keynote Address
Title: Symbolism and Meaning in Large Language Models [download abstract]
Speaker: Dr. Rebecca Hwa, The George Washington University
About the speaker
Dr. Rebecca Hwa is Professor and Chair of Computer Science at The George Washington University. Her research in computational linguistics focuses on understanding persuasion through AI-driven analysis. Recent projects explore student revision behaviors in argumentative writing, the use of symbolism in visual rhetoric, and the detection of group biases in social media. Prior to joining GW, Dr. Hwa was a faculty member at the University of Pittsburgh. She also served as a Program Officer at the National Science Foundation’s Computer and Information Science and Engineering Directorate, where she co-led the National AI Research Institute program. Dr. Hwa holds a Ph.D. in Computer Science from Harvard University (2001) and a B.S. in Computer Science and Engineering from UCLA (1993).
Keynote Address
Title: Leveraging Technology for Multimodality-Oriented Research and L2 Teaching: The Case of Compliments in Chinese [download abstract]
Speaker: Dr. Hongyin Tao , University of California, Los Angeles
About the speaker
Hongyin Tao is a professor of Chinese language and linguistics at UCLA. He also holds an honorary Distinguished Chair Professor position at the National Taiwan Normal University and was the 2014 president of the Chinese Language Teachers Association, USA. His research and teaching focus on the social, cultural, and interactional aspects of Chinese language use in context. Among his over 170 publications are Units in Mandarin Conversation: Prosody, Discourse, and Grammar (John Benjamins 1996), Global Chinese Variation - USA (Commercial Press 2022), and Learner Corpora Construction and Explorations in Chinese and Related Languages (Springer 2023).
Special Guest Speech
Title: Basic Emotions, Facial Expressions, and Affective Speech Prosody: Harnessing GenAI to Study Young Nezha [download abstract]
Speaker: Dr. Marjorie K. M. Chan (陳潔雯) , The Ohio State University
About the speaker
Marjorie K. M. Chan (陳潔雯) is Associate Professor of Chinese Linguistics at Ohio State University’s Department of East Asian Languages and Literatures, with an M.A. and Ph.D. program in Chinese Linguistics, plus courtesy appointment in Linguistics. She teaches phonetics/phonology, historical linguistics, dialectology, the writing system, and Chinese opera. She has published on Chinese dialects, humor, sentence-final particles, language and gender, and multimodality involving prosody, especially affective prosody.
She has served as an editorial board member for the Journal of the Chinese Language Teachers Association, Journal of Chinese Language Teaching, Korea Journal of Chinese Language and Literature, Frontiers in Chinese Linguistics, and 南方语言学. She has also served as VP, President and Immediate Past President, as well as inaugural webmaster, for the Chinese Language Teachers Association, Executive Secretary for the International Association of Chinese Linguistics, and web editor for CHINese Oral and PERforming Literature.