• PolyU Linguistic & Language Group
  • PolyU Linguistic Theory & Language Technology Group

Team Members

Chu-Ren Huang, Professor

Chu-Ren Huang is Chair Professor at The Hong Kong Polytechnic University and Dean of Faculty of Humanities. His research interests include Computational Linguistics, Ontology, Corpus Linguistics...

Adam Pease, PhD

Adam Pease is CEO and principal consultant of Articulate Software. His current work is on the Suggested Upper Merged Ontology, and Sigma ontology environment.

Jiajuan Xiong, PhD

Jiajuan Xiong is a postdoctoral fellow interested in Chinese linguistics and syntax.

Hongzhi Xu, PhD candidate

Hongzhi Xu is a PhD candidate interested in basic Natural Language Processing problems, including Word Segmentation and Part-of-Speech Tagging with Machine Learning approaches.

Jing Ding, PhD candidate

Jing Ding is a final year PhD candidate at The Hong Kong Polytechnic University with a project about Chinese antonyms. Her interests include: lexical semantics, corpus linguisitics and ontologies.

Francesca Quattri, PhD candidate

Francesca is a PhD candidate and her research interests are Computational Linguistics, Corpus Linguistics, Applied Linguistics, Lexicology and Lexicography, Semantics, Syntax, Natural Language Processing....

Shichang Wang, PhD candidate

Shichang Wang is a PhD candidate mainly interested in 'the science and technology of words' and he is working on the GRF project 'Crowdsourcing, Linguistic Analysis, and Language Resources'

Anna Laszlo, PhD candidate

A native Hungarian doing PhD in the Hong Kong Polytechnic University; the current research focus is on the textual features of irony and sarcasm in a soap opera corpus.

Karl Neergaard, PhD candidate

Karl Neergaard is a PhD candidate at the Hong Kong Polytechnic University currently researching the network characteristics of the mental lexicon through psycholinguistic, corpus and graph theory methodologies.

Enrico Santus, PhD candidate

Enrico Santus is a PhD candidate at The Hong Kong Polytechnic University and he is researching  new methods for the "Unsupervised Ontology Development and Population using Distributional Semantics Models".

Ren-feng Duann, PhD candidate

Ren-feng Duann is an exchange student at the Hong Kong Polytechnic University. She is a last-year PhD candidate in linguistics at the National Taiwan University

Menghan Jiang, PhD candidate

Menghan is a PhD student from the Department of Chinese and Biligual Studies at the Hong Kong Polytechnic University. Her research interests are Chinese syntax, corpus linguistics and language variation.

Qingqing Zhao, PhD candidate

Qingqing Zhao is a PhD candidate in the CBS Department at the Hong Kong Polytechnic University. She is interested in lexical semantics, computational linguistics, and ontology.

Xiaodan Bai, MPhil candidate

BAI Xiaodan is a Mphil student interested in the study of endangered Oroqen language. She also engages in the ongoing project of creating a digital museum for Oroqen culture and language.

Hongchao Liu, PhD candidate

Hongchao Liu is a PhD candidate in the Department of Chinese and Bilingual Studies at the Hong Kong Polytechnic University whose interests lie in Chinese linguistics, Chinese information processing and corpus construction.

Rebecca Zhu, PhD candidate

Rebecca Zhu is a PhD candidate in the Department of Chinese and Bilingual Studies at the Hong Kong Polytechnic University.