Conferences

The 2024 International Forum on Interoperable Semantic Annotation of Language Resources in Beijing

Organised by China National Institute of Standardization and The Halliday Centre for Intelligent Applications of Language Studies, City University of Hong Kong. Sponsored and hosted by School of Foreign Languages, Beihang University School of Computer Science and Engineering, Beihang University Beijing. The Forum will be held from 11-15 September in Beijing. The advent and increasing importance of large language models (LLMs) have called for urgent attention to the semantic analysis of linguistic corpora. The purpose is to achieve better interoperability and exchange of semantically annotated language resources for better transparency leading towards the improvements of AI technologies such as generative pre-trained transformer (GPT). In response to the emergent requirements, the 2024 International Forum on Interoperable Semantic Annotation of Language Resources in Beijing is organised under the auspices of the International Organization for Standardization (ISO) in conjunction with the National Standardization Administration of the People’s Republic of China (SAC). It is held on the series of ISO standards for semantic annotation arising from the work at ISO’s Working Group 2 of the language resource management sub-committee. These standards cover general principles of semantic annotation for space, time, event, quantification, dialogue acts, semantic roles, discourse relations, and evaluative language as well as their interlinking.

International Graduate Summer School on Frontiers in International (South Asia and Southeast Asia) Communication Theory and Research Methods

Organized by the Faculty of Journalism and Communication, Communication University of China, School of Journalism, Yunnan University, Journalism and Communication Sub-Committee, South and Southeast Asia University Network, and The Halliday Centre for Intelligent Applications of Language Studies, City University of Hong Kong. The summer school will be held from 10-18 August 2024, in Kunming, Yunnan Province. It will explore advanced theories and practical issues in international communication, offering lectures and training on both mainstream and frontier research methods. This event aims to enhance the research capabilities of young scholars in international communication, fostering academic exchanges and contributing to global scholarly community development.

An International Conference on Brain, Language, and Communication, Kunming, 22-23 April 2024

Organized by Yunnan Daily, The School of Journalism, Yunnan University and The Halliday Centre for Intelligent Applications of Language Studies, City University of Hong Kong. The conference will be held on 22-23 April, at Chenggong Campus, Yunnan University. It will showcase some of the latest developments in research topics, methodologies and findings closely associated with the interdisciplinary collaboration across linguistics, media communication and brain science.

The 2nd International Halliday Forum on Journalistic Discourse, Hong Kong, 22 January 2024

The 2nd International Halliday Forum, on the theme of journalistic discourse, was held on Monday 22 January 2024. The talks explored the following topics: Measuring reader assessment of news credibility, by Shengqing Liao (Fudan and Yunnan Universities). Crisis management strategies, by Christine Huang (CityU). Multi-dimensional annotation of engagement in journalistic discourse, by Min Dong (BeihangU) and Alex Fang (CityU). ISO semantic annotation schemes, by Harry Bunt (Tilburg University). Social actor analysis applied to the Gladstone corpus, by Tony McEnery (Lancaster University).

The 1st International Halliday Forum on Intelligent Applications of Languages Studies, Hong Kong, 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.

A Hongkong-Beijing-Lancaster Symposium on Research Methodologies for PhD Studies in Linguistics, Hong Kong, 15-18 March 2022

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.