NACCL-38 Plenary Speeches

↲ back to main

The following speakers have been confirmed. More information on plenary speeches will be available soon.

Keynote speakers:

• Dr. Chu-Ren Huang, Chair Professor in Applied Chinese language Studies, Department of Chinese and Bilingual Studies, The Hong Kong Polytechnic University

Tentative title of plenary speech: “From Sensory Lexicon to Embodied AI: Challenges and Opportunities for Chinese Linguistics in the Time of LLMs”

• Dr. Hongyin Tao, Professor of Chinese Language and Linguistics, Department of Asian Languages and Cultures, University of California, Los Angeles

Tentative title of plenary speech: TBD

• Dr. Rebecca Hwa, Professor & Department Chair, Department of Computer Science, George Washington University

  Tentative title of plenary speech: TBD (topic will be about computational challenges of teaching AI systems to understand non-literal language such as metaphors, idioms, and other figurative speech)

Special guest speaker:

• Dr.  Marjorie K. M. Chan, Associate Professor in Chinese, Department of East Asian Languages and Literatures, The Ohio State University

  Tentative title of plenary speech: "Facial Expressions and Affective Speech Prosody: Harnessing Emotional AI to Study Young Nezha"