Academic Staff
Prof. Chu-Ren HUANG
Emeritus Professor (Applied Chinese Language Studies)
- HHB810, Hung Hom Bay Campus
- +852 2766 4832
- churen.huang@polyu.edu.hk
- Personal Website
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Prof. Chu-Ren Huang is a Emeritus Professor in Applied Chinese language Studies in the Department of Language Scineces and Technology 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.
Education and Academic Qualifications
- BA in English Lang. and Lit., National Taiwan University, Taipei, Taiwan
- PhD in Linguistics, Cornell University, Ithaca, NY
Academic and Professional Experience
- Chair Professor of Applied Chinese Language Studies, Department of Chinese and Bilingual Studies / Language Sciences and Technology, The Hong Kong Polytechnic University
- PhD supervisor, The Hong Kong Polytechnic University
- Dean, Faculty of Humanities, The Hong Kong Polytechnic University
- Research Fellow, Institute of Linguistics, Academia Sinica
- Founding Director, Computational Linguistics and Chinese Language Processing PhD Program, Taiwan International Graduate Programs
- Vice-Director, Institute of Linguistics, Academia Sinica
- Research Fellow, Institute of History and Philology, Academia Sinica
- Associate Research Fellow, Institute of History and Philology, Academia Sinica
- Computational Linguist. Weidner Communications Corporation. Northbrook, Illinois
Research Interests
Selected Publications
- Chen, J., Chersoni, E., Schlechtweg, D., & Huang, C. (2026). Lexical Semantic Change Detection: A Survey of Tasks, Benchmarks, Models, and Potential Impacts in Digital Humanities and Social Sciences. Natural Language Processing, 1-39. https://doi.org/10.1017/nlp.2026.10032
- Salicchi, L., Huang, C.*, & Li, P. (2026). Verbal and facial expression cues in emotional alignment. Scientific Reports, 16(1), Article 18572. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-026-48837-0
- Chen, J., Chersoni, E., Marelli, M., & Huang, C.-R. (2026). The Multidimensional Nature of Semantic Transparency in a Cross‐Linguistic Perspective: Evidence From Human Intuitions, Computational Estimates, and Processing Data for Chinese Compounds. Cognitive Science, 50(3), e70194. https://doi.org/10.1111/cogs.70194
- Bao, X., Gu, J., Wang, Z., & Huang, C.-R. (2026). Sentimental image generation with image quality assessment. Pattern Recognition, 177. 113269. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.patcog.2026.113269
- Zhao, X., Chersoni, E., Huang, C.-R., & Xu, H. (2025). Translating vulgar language in video game localization: a case study of Black Myth: Wukong. Perspectives, 34(3), 493–512. https://doi.org/10.1080/0907676X.2025.2562027
- Hou, R., K. Ahrens, & Huang, C.-R. 2025. A Type-Theoretical Approach to Categorical Interaction and Complex System Adaptation: An Empirical Study Based on Register Classification. Humanities and Social Sciences Communications, 12(1). https://doi.org/10.1057/s41599-025-05089-z OA
- Huang, C.-R., Zhao, Q., Ahrens, K., Wang, Z., & LONG, Y. (2025). Linguistic synesthesia and embodiment: A study based on Mandarin modality exclusivity norms. Language Sciences, 109, 101715. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.langsci.2025.101715
- Peng, B., Hsu, Y. Y., Chersoni, E., Qiu, L., & Huang, C.-R. (2025). Multilingual prediction of semantic norms with language models: a study on English and Chinese. Language Resources and Evaluation, 59(4), 3911-3937. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10579-025-09866-9
- Zhao, Q., Long, Y., Jiang, X., Wang, Z., Huang, C. R., & Zhou, G. (2024). Linguistic synesthesia detection: Leveraging culturally enriched linguistic features. Natural Language Engineering, 31(3), 913-935. https://doi.org/10.1017/nlp.2024.9
- Zhu, Y., & Huang, C.-R. (2023). A Student Grammar of Chinese. Cambridge University Press. https://doi.org/10.1017/9781009233507
- Zhong, Y., Wan, M., Ahrens, K., & Huang, C. (2022). Sensorimotor norms for Chinese nouns and their relationship with orthographic and semantic variables. Language, Cognition and Neuroscience, 37(8), 1000-1022. Article A. http://hdl.handle.net/10397/92353
- Huang, C. R., Dong, S., Yang, Y., & Ren, H. (2021). From language to meteorology: kinesis in weather events and weather verbs across Sinitic languages. Humanities and Social Sciences Communications, 8(1), Article 4. https://doi.org/10.1057/s41599-020-00682-w
- Huang, C. R., Jing-Schmidt, Z., & Meisterernst, B. (2019). The routledge handbook of Chinese applied linguistics. Taylor and Francis - Balkema. https://doi.org/10.4324/9781315625157
- Huang, C., & Shi, D. (2016). A reference grammar of Chinese. Cambridge University Press.
- Lee, Y. M., Chen, Y., Huang, C., & Li, S. (2013). Detecting emotion causes with a linguistic rule-based approach. Computational Intelligence, 29(3), 390-416. https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1467-8640.2012.00459.x
- Huang, C., & Xue, N. (2012). Words without boundaries: Computational approaches to Chinese word segmentation. Language and Linguistics Compass, 6(8), 494-505. https://doi.org/10.1002/lnc3.357
- Huang, C., Calzolari, N., Gangemi, A., Lenci, A., Oltramari, A., & Prévot, L. (2010). Ontology and the lexicon: a natural language processing perspective. Cambridge University Press.
CONFERENCES CO-FOUNDED
- 2019
DMR: Designing Meaning Representations
The workshop aims to bring scholars from different backgrounds together in order to design meaning representations for text that have the necessary meaning “ingredients” that help us to develop systems that can actually “understand” human language and explain the decisions they make. - 2018
LiNCR: Linguistic and Neuro-Cognitive Resources
The goal of the LiNCR (pronounced ‘linker’) workshop is to provide a venue to share and explore a new generation of language resources which link and aggregate cognitive, behavioural, neuroimaging and linguistic data. - 2001
Asian Language Resources Workshops.
The goal of this workshop is to raise awareness of linguistic diversity in Asia as well as to coordinate efforts to build infrastructures for language processing for Asian languages. - 2000
CLSW: Chinese Lexical Semantics Workshops.
This is the first conference dedicated to Chinese lexical semantics and embraces both computational and linguistics approaches. - 1992
PACLIC: Pacific Asia Conference on Language, Information, and Computation.
This is a regional conference that pulls theoretical and computational linguists together. This was formed by merging two existing conference and is now held annually. - 1988
ROCLING: ROC Computational Linguistics Conference.
The first computational linguistics conference in Taiwan. The conference is held annually.
Life Member of:
- Association for Computational Linguistics and Chinese Language Processing (ACLCP, formerly ROCLING)
- Linguistic Society of America (LSA)
- Linguistic Society of Hong Kong (LSHK)
- Linguistic Society of Taiwan (LST)
- 2024, 2025
Top 2% (Career Long) Scientist in Artificial Intelligence and Image Processing (Elsevier and Stanford University’s Top 2% Scientist List) - 2013
Docteur Honoris Causa, Université d'Aix-Marseille - 2009
Fellow of the Hong Kong Academy of the Humanities (HKAH) - 2004
Permanent Member, the International Committee on Computational Linguistics (ICCL)
