Achievements

• Enrico Santus, PhD candidate in the Department of Chinese and Bilingual Studies, was awarded the Distinguished Young Paper Award for the paper titled “Unsupervised Antonym-Synonym Discrimination in Vector Space”, written by Enrico Santus, Qin Lu, Alessandro Lenci and Chu-Ren Huang, at the Italian Conference on Computational Linguistics (CLiC-it) (http://clic.humnet.unipi.it/en/index.html), which took place in Pisa, Italy, during 9 - 10 December 2014. As part of the award, an extended version of the paper will be published in a journal.


• The LLT has developed a new system for the automatic identification of sentiment intensity in tweets using figurative language (range [-5; +5]). The system - which uses various features, including those specifically concerned with the identification of irony and sarcasm - obtained the third overall performance (out of fifteen models) in the SemEval-2015 Task 11 evaluation and the first performance for tweets involving irony and sarcasm.


• Best Paper Award: Lin, Jingxia, Chu-Ren Huang, Huarui Zhang, and Hongzhi Xu. 2012. The headedness of Mandarin Chinese serial verb constructions: A corpus-Based study. Proceedings of PACLIC 2012: The 26th Pacific Asia Conference on Language, Information and Computation.


• The best performing system in the 2009 Web People Search (WePS) competition of the WePS Workshop in 18th International World Wide Web (WWW) Conference. Ying Chen, Sophia Yat Mei Lee and Chu-Ren Huang, “PolyUHK: A Robust Information Extraction System for Web Personal Names”, In 2nd Web People Search Evaluation Workshop (WePS 2009), 18th WWW Conference, 2009.