Chinese Language Resources: Data Collection, Linguistic Analysis, Annotation and Language Processing

Chu-Ren Huang is a chair professor in the Department of Chinese and Bilingual Studies at The Hong Kong Polytechnic University. Focusing on Chinese, computational, and corpus linguistics, he is fascinated by what language can tell us about human cognition and our collective reactions to natural and social environments. He approaches these questions with a deep and comprehensive study of the Chinese language. His recent books on Chinese include A Reference Grammar of Chinese (Cambridge), the Routledge Handbook on Chinese Applied Linguistics, and the Cambridge Handbook of Chinese Linguistics, His recent papers appeared in Behavior Research Methods; Computational Linguistics; Cognitive Linguistics; Corpus Linguistics and Linguistic Theories; Humanities and Social Sciences Communications, Knowledge-Based Systems; Language, Cognition and Neuroscience; Language Resources and Evaluation; Lingua; Natural Language Engineering; PLoS One; etc.

Dr. Shu-Kai Hsieh is Associate Professor of Linguistics at National Taiwan University, Taiwan. He received his PhD in Computational Linguistics from the University of Tübingen, Germany. He is the supervisor of NTU Lab of Ontologies, Language Processing and e-Humanities, and the founder of Taiwan Olympiad in Linguistics (TOL) and serves as the team leader and head coach of the Taiwanese national teams for International Olympiad in Linguistics.

Peng Jin is a full professor at Leshan Normal University. He co-founded the Sichuan Provincial Key Laboratory of Philosophy and Social Science for Language Intelligence in Special Education in 2022. He also founded the Key Laboratory of Internet Natural Language Processing of Sichuan Provincial Education Department in 2014. He has published tens of top journal and conference papers on natural language processing and has been granted two NSFC projects. He received his PhD degree from Peking University in July 2009, working on word sense disambiguation for his thesis. As a visiting scholar and student, he worked and studied at the University of Sussex, UK, in 2007 and 2014, respectively.