Chu-Ren Huang, Ph.D.

Chu-Ren Huang is a Chair Professor in Applied Chinese language Studies in the Department of Chinese and Bilingual Studies at The Hong Kong Polytechnic University. He holds a Ph.D. in Linguistics from Cornell University and has a distinguished record of scholarly publications as well as extensive experience in interdisciplinary and supranational joint research. He is also an experienced teacher and academic leader, having served as the Dean of the Faculty of Humanities from 2008 to 2015. He holds an honorary doctorate from Aix-Marseille and is an Academy Fellow in the Hong Kong Academy of the Humanities. He is also a permanent member of the International Committee on Computational Linguistics. He has been elected president of a number of national and international scholarly societies in the humanities, lexicography, linguistics, and computational linguistics.

A Student Grammar of Chinese

This concise introduction to Chinese grammar, published by Cambridge University Press, assumes only a basic knowledge of Chinese, and no knowledge of grammatical terminology. This student grammar compares Chinese grammar patterns with those of English, and illustrates points with real-life examples. Exercises within the book and online answer keys help students to reinforce learned material and assist with self-study.

A Reference Grammar of Chinese

A Reference Grammar of Chinese, published by Cambridge University Press, is a comprehensive and up-to-date guide to the linguistic structure of Chinese, covering all of the important linguistic features of the language and incorporating insights gained from research in Chinese linguistics over the past thirty years. With contributions from twenty-two leading Chinese linguists, this authoritative guide uses large-scale corpora to provide authentic examples based on actual language use.

The Cambridge Handbook of Chinese Linguistics

With contributions from internationally renowned experts in the field, this Handbook provides a state-of-the-art survey of the central issues in Chinese linguistics. Its dialectical design sets a state-of-the-art benchmark for research in a wide range of interdisciplinary and cross-lingual studies involving the Chinese language. It is an essential resource for students and researchers wishing to explore the fascinating field of Chinese linguistics.

The Routledge Handbook of Chinese Applied Linguistics

The Routledge Handbook of Chinese Applied Linguistics is written for those wanting to acquire comprehensive knowledge of China, the diaspora and the Sino-sphere communities through Chinese language. The Handbook focuses on the cultural, societal and communicative characteristics of the Chinese language environment.

Language Log Posts

Chinese Language Resources

This volume covers 30 years of development in Chinese language processing, focusing on the impact of conscientious decisions by some leading research groups. It focuses on constructing language resources, which led to thriving research and development of expertise in Chinese language technology today. Contributions from more than 40 leading scholars from various countries explore how Chinese language resources are used in current pioneering NLP research, the future challenges and their implications for computational and theoretical linguistics.

Mandarin Chinese Words and Parts of Speech

This monograph is a translation of two seminal works on corpus-based studies of Mandarin Chinese words and parts of speech. Suitable for graduate and scholars in the fields of linguistics and Chinese, Mandarin Chinese Words and Parts of Speech provides a comprehensive survey of the issues around wordhood and PoS.

Ontology and the Lexicon

The Routledge Handbook of Chinese Applied Linguistics is written for those wanting to acquire comprehensive knowledge of China, the diaspora and the Sino-sphere communities through Chinese language. The Handbook focuses on the cultural, societal and communicative characteristics of the Chinese language environment.

Computational Linguistics and Beyond

The papers in this volume represent plenary lectures and other papers from COLING 2002, and serve to explore the frontiers of computational linguistics at the turn of the 21st century.

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