KIT, Chunyu
Biography
Prof. Kit is a computational linguist currently teaching and researching in related fields in the Department of Linguistics and Translation. He holds the following degrees: BEng in computer science and technology (Tsinghua, 1985), MA in applied linguistics (CASS, 1988), MPhil in linguistics (CityUHK, 1993), MSc in computational linguistics (CMU, 1994) and PhD in computer science (Sheffield, 2000). His research interests include computational linguistics, terminology, Chinese linguistics, psycholinguistics, poetry, and Chinese philosophy. He is a Chinese poet who has published two poem selections funded by the project grant of HK Arts Development Council. He has published over 150 research papers in academic journals (including Scientific Data, Information Sciences, Patterns, International Journal of Corpus Linguistics, Journal of Artificial Intelligence Research, Digital Scholarship in the Humanities, Journal of Chinese Information Processing, Law Library Journal, Machine Translation, and Terminology) and top international conferences for computational linguistics (including ACL, COLING, CoNLL, EMNLP and IJCAI). He co-edited Frontiers of Empirical and Corpus Linguistics (China Social Sciences Press, 2018) and Lexical Semantics towards the Big-data Era, Special Issue of Chinese Language and Discourse (Benjamins, 2023), and also contributed chapters to a number of books, including Language Acquisition, Change and Emergence (CityUHK Press, 2005), Linguistics (China Remin University Press, 2013), and The Routledge Encyclopedia of Translation Technology (Routledge, 2015), and The Routledge Encyclopedia of Traditional Chinese Culture (Routledge, 2019).
Research Interests
- Computational linguistics
- Terminology
- Chinese reading
- Translation process research
- Poetry
- Digital humanities
Key Publications
- Xie, T., Wan, Y., Zhou, Y., Huang, W., Liu, Y., Linghu, Q., Wang, S., Kit, C.*, Grazian, C., Zhang, W., & Hoex, B.* (2024). Creation of a structured solar cell material dataset and performance prediction using large language models. Patterns, 5(5), Articl
- Xie, T., Wan, Y., Wang, H., Østrøm, I., Wang, S., He, M., Deng, R., Wu, X., Grazian, C., Kit, C.*, and Hoex, B.* (2024). Opinion Mining by Convolutional Neural Networks for Maximizing Discoverability of Nanomaterials. Journal of Chemical Information and M
- Meng, Y., Wan, Y. & Kit, C.* (2024). Du Fu’s conspicuous negativity and Li Bai’s hidden positivity: a sentiment comparison and exploration. Digital Scholarship in the Humanities, 39(1):280–295. Oxford university Press.
- Wu, Y & Kit, C*. (2023). Hong Kong Corpus of Chinese Sentence and Passage Reading. Scientific Data, 10, 899.
- Kit, C*, Lu, Y., & Liu, M. (2023). What more can empirical contextual data tell about the real usage of words and collocations? A case study of the qià (恰) cluster with Chinese Gigaword data, Lexical Semantics towards the Big-Data Era, special issue of Ch