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The Halliday Centre for Intelligent Applications of Language Studies
韓禮德語言研究智能應用中心
About Us
Introduction
Vision & Mission
M.A.K Halliday
A brief biography
M.A.K. Halliday Memorial
Ruqaiya Hasan Memorial
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People
Alex Fang, Centre Director
Steering Committee
Core Members
Affiliated Members
Staff
Associated PhD Students
Research Areas
Linguistics
Translation
Natural Language Processing
Publications
Recent Publications
Books
Authored Books
Edited Books
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Book Chapters
Conference Proceedings
Journal Articles
Collected Works
M.A.K. Halliday
Ruqaiya Hasan
Braj B. Kachru
Other Publications
Conferences
The 2024 International Forum on Interoperable Semantic Annotation of Language Resources in Beijing
International Graduate Summer School on Frontiers in International (South Asia and Southeast Asia) Communication Theory and Research Methods
An International Conference on Brain, Language, and Communication
The 2nd International Halliday Forum on Journalistic Discourse
The 1st International Halliday Forum on Intelligent Applications of Languages
A Hongkong-Beijing-Lancaster Symposium on Research Methodologies for PhD Studies in Linguistics
Research Projects
On-going Projects
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News & Events
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New Publications
Liu, M., Zhang, Z., & Lee, J. S. Y. (2023).
Verb frame distribution and text difficulty: A corpus-based analysis of verb frames in Chinese textbooks.
International Journal of Applied Linguistics.
Hafner, C. A., Harrison, S., Ho, W. Y. J., & Kwan, B. S. C. (2023).
Digital mediation in ESP genres.
English for Specific Purposes, 71
, 115-122.
Catedral, L., & Djuraeva, M. (2023).
Whose voice matters? Chronotopic position (ing) s and the dialogic inclusion of marginalized stakeholders in critical applied linguistics.
Applied Linguistics, 44(3)
, 420-441.
Kim, J. W., Lee, J., & Dai, Y. (2023).
Misinformation and the paradox of trust during the COVID-19 pandemic in the U.S.: Pathways to risk perception and compliance behaviors.
Journal of Risk Research, 26(5)
, 469-484.
Zheng, H., Wang, X., & Huang, Y. (2023).
Fake news in a time of plague: Exploring individuals’ online information management in the COVID-19 era.
Computers in Human Behavior, 146
, 107790.
Publications
New Projects
New
Qingpeng Zhang. A Big Data Predictive Decision System for COVID-19 Epidemic in Hong Kong
Lydia Catedral. "Public" or "Private" Labor? A Discourse Analytic Comparison of Regulations on Women’s Transnational Domestic Work.
John Lee. Semantic Modeling for Sentence-level Readability Assessment.
Maggie Mai. Input and Experience in Early Trilingual Development.
Jackie Yan. Integrating audio description training into interpreting classes: Research and practice.
John Lee. CityPal: A Chatbot for Enhancing Young Adults' Psychological Well-Being.
Partner Centres
News & Events
Upcoming Events:
The 2024 International Forum on Interoperable Semantic Annotation of Language Resources in Beijing
11-15 September 2024
International Graduate Summer School on Frontiers in International (South Asia and Southeast Asia) Communication Theory and Research Methods
10 -18 August 2024
9-11 June 2024
Prof Alex Fang visited Beijing 9-11 June 2024. He met with colleagues from Standardization Administration of China (SAC), China National Institute of Standardization (CNIS), Beijing University of Aeronautics and Astronautics (Beihang), and Tsinghua University. Discussions covered collaborations in the areas of international standards, annotation of evaluative language, and large language models.
18-24 May 2024
ISO/TC 37/SC 4 resolved to appoint Prof Alex Chengyu Fang as secretary of ISO/TC 37/SC 4/WG 2 Semantic annotation to manage the administration of WG 2 affairs. Alex attended the meetings in Turin, Italy, in his capacity as representative expert certified by the Standardization Administration of China (SAC) and expert member of ISO in the area of language resource management.
25 April 2024
Centre member Prof Michaela Mahlberg has been promoted to the position of Humboldt Chair and Professor of Digital Humanities at Friedrich-Alexander-Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg. At the same time, she remains associated with the University of Birmingham as Honorary Professor. Many congratulations on this significant recognition of her academic achievements!
23-24 April 2024
HCLS co-organised an international conference on the theme of Brain, Language and Communication together with Yunnan Daily Press Group, School of Journalism (College of International Communication of South and Southeast Asia), Yunnan University, and The South and Southeast Asian University Network. The conference was sponsored by Yunnan Province Key Laboratory of All Media Convergence and was held 22-23 April 2024 on the premises of Yunnan Daily Press Group in Kunming, Yunnan Province. Five members of HCLS participated in the event and gave talks on their respective research. The conference marked a pioneering effort to combine the disciplines of brain, language and communication in the study of journalistic discourse. It has also generated enthusiastic expressions of interest in collaborations across disciplines, departments, universities and social sectors. HCLS will continue to play a vital role in the promotion and development of appliable linguistics to achieve even greater social impacts.
22 April 2024
Centre director Prof Alex Fang and centre member Prof Niels Schiller visited Yunnan Daily Press Group on 22 April 2024. They met with the President of the Group and the director of the Key Laboratory of All Media Convergence of Yunnan Province. Prof Fang emphasised the importance of research in writer stance and reader engagement in journalistic writing. The president of Yunnan Daily and the lab director both expressed keen interest in collaborations with the Centre.
19 February 2024
Prof Shengqing Liao has just completed his visit to HCLS. As Dean of Journalism at Yunnan University and Professor of Communication at Fudan University, he engaged in meaningful interdisciplinary discussions, contributed to the Centre's 2024 CRF grant application in fake news detection, and delivered a lecture on news credibility at the 2nd International Halliday Forum. He also facilitated cross-institutional collaborations focusing on student exchanges, joint research, and academic conferences with Prof. Niels Schiller and Prof. Alex Fang.
1 February 2024
Professor Niels Olaf Schiller has joined the Centre as Core Member. Professor Schiller has been appointed by CityU as Professor and HoD of the Department of Linguistics and Translation. Niels's expertise and research interests will broaden the scope and profile of the research that HCLS embodies.
22 January 2024
The 2nd International Halliday Forum revolved around the theme of journalistic discourse, showcasing a variety of interdisciplinary methodologies to analyse this genre, as well as integrating Corpus Linguistics. The forum hosted five eminent speakers from internationally renowned universities. The event started at 3 pm and finished at 7 pm.
19 January 2024
Prof Shengqing Liao has just joined the Centre as Visiting Professor. He is Professor at Fudan University in Shanghai and Yunnan University in Kunming, where he serves as Dean of the School of Journalism, also known as College of International Communication of South and Southeast Asia. He was vice chairman of the Chinese Association of Ethnic Journalism & Communication as well as head of Department of Communication Studies, School of Journalism, at Fudan University. His visit will greatly strengthen the ongoing corpus-based research in journalistic discourse at HCLS.
8 December 2023
The Halliday Forum 2023 on Intelligent Applications of Languages Studies was held on 8 Dec. Centre director Prof Alex Fang opened the forum. Prof Kiyong Lee and Prof Jae Woong Choe, both of Korea Unviersity, were invited to deliver keynote talks. The core members of the Centre gave presentations on their latest research, touching on a variety of different topics, methodologies and thought-provoking findings. Research collaborators and associated PhD students attended the forum. The Centre director wishes to thank all the participants and looks forward to a future edition of greater and broader participation.
15-18 March 2022
A Hongkong-Beijing-Lancaster Symposium on Research Methodologies for PhD Studies in Linguistics. REMLing’22 was jointly organised by the Halliday Centre for Intelligent Applications for Language Studies (HCLS) at City University of Hong Kong, the MIIT Centre of AI-based Linguistic Information Processing (CALIP) at Beihang University, Beijing, and the ESRC Centre for Corpus Approaches to Social Sciences (CASS) at Lancaster University. The even is sponsored by the Beijing-HK University Alliance, Hong Kong.
7 September 2021
Elena Semino joined the Halliday Centre as Affiliated Member. She is Professor of Linguistics and Verbal Art and Director of ESRC Centre for Corpus Approaches to Social Science at Lancaster University.
22 August 2021
The Steering Committee of HCLS met and heard the Director's report on the latest developments. The committee endorsed the Centre's latest efforts to build a critical mass of expertise of core and affiliated members, grant applications to BHUA and SPPR, and international collaborations and fund raising activities. The committee endorsed healthcare language and communication as a strategic area of development for the centre and advised on imminent funding opportunities. The Steering Committee is chaired by Christine (CityU) and convened by Alex with Gerhard (Vienna) and Harry (Tilburg) as members. Jonathan as the Centre Advisor was also present at the meeting and spoke on strategic developments.
18 August 2021
Alex met with Prof Elena Semino, Director of the ESRC Center for Corpus Approaches to Social Sciences of Lancaster University, UK. Prof Jonathan Culpeper (HoD of Linguistics and English Language, Lancaster), Prof Richard Walker (Dean, College of Liberal Arts and Social Sciences, CityU) and Prof Christine Huang (Associate Dean, College of Liberal Arts and Social Sciences, CityU) were also at the meeting to discuss collaborations between the two research centres.
12 August 2021
Christoph Hafner joined the Halliday Centre as Core Member. He is Associate Professor in the Department of English at City University of Hong Kong.
26 July 2021
Ji Won Kim joined the Halliday Centre as Core Member. She is Assistant Professor in the Department of Media and Communication at City University of Hong Kong.
23 July 2021
Christine Yi-Hui Huang joined the Halliday Centre as Core Member. Christine is Chair Professor of Communication and Media and Associate Dean for Faculty and Research at College of Liberal Arts and Social Sciences, City University of Hong Kong.