NACCL-38 Plenary Speeches

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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

Title of plenary speech: “Living Language and Embodied Cognition: Thoughts on the sciences of language inspired by the LLM challenge”

• 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: "Leveraging Technology for Multimodality-Oriented Research and L2 Teaching: The Case of Compliments in Chinese"

• 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

  Title of plenary speech: "Facial Expressions and Affective Speech Prosody: Harnessing GenAI to Study Young Nezha"