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Corpus and Empirical Linguistics Workshop 2016

(with one-day seminar on Deep Learning for Natural Language Processing)

Rm4405 MMW
Dates Venue Event
16 June (Thursday) -
17 June (Friday) 2016

B7603 (LT Multi-purpose Room)
Blue Zone, Level 7, Academic 1

City University of Hong Kong

Workshop on Corpus and Empirical Linguistics
18 June (Saturday) 2016

B7603 (LT Multi-purpose Room)
Blue Zone, Level 7, Academic 1

City University of Hong Kong

Seminar on Deep Learning for Natural Language Processing

Registration

Registration for the workshop is free of charge. But the number of places is limited and will be offered on a first-come-first-serve basis.

You are advised to register in advance for this workshop (or the seminar) by filling in this online form.

For further enquiry please write to Mr. Steven SO.

Workshop (tentative program)

Date Time Speakers/ Presentation Titles (40 mins presentation, 5 mins Q&A)
  Corpus Linguistics session
16 June 2016 (Thursday) 9:00 am – 9:45 am




9:45 am – 10:30 am



10:30 am – 11:15 am
  1. HUANG Changning (Former senior researcher and the research manager of the NLC group at Microsoft Research Asia (MSRA))
    Chinese Grammatical Problems Observed from the Penn Chinese Treebank
  2. T'SOU Benjamin (City University of Hong Kong)
    LIVAC as Big Data for Global Monitoring and Micro-investigations
  3. MATUŠKA Ondřej (Sketch Engine, UK)
    Exploiting Sketch Engine for Chinese
  11:15 am – 11:30 am break
  11:30 am – 12:15 pm

Panel discussion (Host: Professor Liu Meichun)

  • CHEN Keh-Jiann (Academia Sinica, Taiwan)
  • HSIEH Shu-Kai (Graduate Institute of Linguistics, NTU)
  • T'SOU Benjamin (City University of Hong Kong)
  12:30 pm – 1:10 pm

Lunch for invited speakers and LT faculty
Venue: City Chinese Restaurant (8/F)

  1:10 pm

Student Helpers will meet visitors on the ground floor of Amenities Building (lift 19 and lift 20) and lead the way to Creative Media Centre.

  1:35 pm – 2:15 pm

Guided tour at Creative Media Centre
Pure Land at Gallery 360, 8/F
Dunhuang AR(ipad version, 3/F) and some other facilities

  Empirical Linguistics session
  2:30 pm – 3:15 pm


3:15 pm – 4:00 pm



4:00 pm – 4:45 pm
  1. LI Xingshan (Institute of Psychology, Beijing)
    Word segmentation during Chinese reading
  2. HUANG Chih-Mao (National Chiao Tung University, Taiwan)
    The adaptive aging brain: the interplay of cognitive aging and cultural experiences
  3. SCHNUPP Jan (City University of Hong Kong)
    Encoding of vocal sound properties in the early stages of the mammalian auditory pathway
  4:45 pm – 5:00 pm break
  5:00 pm – 5:45 pm
  • Panel discussion (Host: Professor Johnathan Webster)
  6:00 pm

Dinner for invited speakers and LT faculty
Venue: Festive China

 
 
  Corpus Linguistics session
17 June 2016 (Friday) 9:00 am – 9:45 am


9:45 am - 10:30 am





10:30 am – 11:15 pm


11:15 am – 12:00 noon
  1. 俞士汶，朱学锋 (北京大学计算语言学教育部重点实验室)
    句中谓词及其论元语义角色标注
  2. FENG Zhiwei (Senior Research Fellow, Institute of Applied Linguistics, the Ministry of Education (PRC), Distinguished Professor of Hangzhou Normal University)
    Corpus-based Synergetic relationship between word length and its frequency of Chinese
    （基于语料库的汉语词长与词频的协同关系研究）
  3. SONG Rou (Guangdong University of Foreign Studies)
    Formal Structure of Clause Complex in Chinese and English
  4. SUN Maosong (Tsinghua University)
    Computational Study on Classical Chinese Poetry
  12:00 pm – 12:30 noon

Panel discussion (Host: Dr. Kit Chunyu)

  • CHEN Keh-Jiann (Academia Sinica, Taiwan)
  • HUANG Chu Ren (Dept. of Chinese & Bilingual Studies, PolyU)
  • HSIEH Shu-Kai (Graduate Institute of Linguistics, NTU)
  12:30 pm – 1:20 pm

Lunch for invited speakers and LT Faculty
Venue: Amaroni’s

  1:20 pm

Student helpers will wait beside the security booth near Mong Man-wai Building and lead the way to Lang Shining New Media Art Exhibition.

  1:25 pm – 1:50 pm

"Giuseppe Castiglione – Lang Shining New Media Art Exhibition" (18/F AC3)

  Empirical Linguistics session
  2:00 pm – 2:50 pm



2:50 pm – 3:40 pm




3:40 pm – 4:30 pm
  1. WU Denise (National Central University, Taiwan)
    Unveiling Linguistic Structure Represented in the Brain: Evidence from Chinese Sentence Comprehension
  2. HUANG Hsu-Wen (National Chiao Tung University, Taiwan)
    How Much Do you Read into It?
    Effects of Literacy on Language Comprehension across the Adult Lifespan
  3. WU Ting-wei and Co-presenter: KIT Chunyu (City University of Hong Kong)
    An Eye Tracking Study of Cognitive Effort Allocation across Translation Subtasks
  4:30 pm – 5:00 pm break
  5:00 pm – 5:50 pm
  • Panel discussion (Host: Dr. Cecilia Chan)
  6:00 pm

Dinner for invited speakers and LT Faculty
Venue: City Chinese Restaurant (8/F)

Seminar on Deep Learning for Natural Language Processing

Instructor: Prof. QIU Xipeng, Fudan University

Xipeng Qiu is an associate professor at the School of Computer Science, Fudan University. He received his B.S. and Ph.D. degrees from Fudan University in 2001 and 2006, respectively. His research interests include statistical machine learning and natural language processing. He has published more than 30 top journal/conference papers (such as ACL, IJCAI, EMNLP, ICCV, etc.). He is lead developer of the open source project FudanNLP for Chinese language processing.

Date Time Speakers/Titles
18 June 2016 9:00 am – 12:00 noon
  • Background: machine learning, natural language processing, and artificial neural network
  12:15 pm – 1:45 pm

Lunch: City Chinese Restaurant (8/F)
  2:00 pm – 5:00 pm
  • Neural models, typical tasks of NLP and selected latest neural based approaches

Click here to download a detailed breakdown of the Deep Learning seminar.

 

Enquiry: LTenquiry@cityu.edu.hk

Page last updated: 16 June 2016