Academic Staff
- HHB812c, Hung Hom Bay Campus
- +852 2766 7451
- kl.liu@polyu.edu.hk
- Personal Website
ORCID ID
SCOPUS ID學歷
- Bachelor of Arts, South China Normal University
- Master of Arts, Guangdong University of Foreign Studies
- Doctor of Philosophy, The Chinese University of Hong Kong
Academic and Professional Experience
- 2024 - Present
Associate Professor, Department of Language Science and Technology, The Hong Kong Polytechnic University (2024-now) - 2018 - 2024
Assistant Professor, Department of Language Science and Technology, The Hong Kong Polytechnic University - 2011 - 2018
Assistant Professor, Department of English, Hong Kong Shue Yan University - 2010 - 2011
Senior Lecturer, Department of English, Hong Kong Shue Yan University - 2010
Research Project Officer, School of Professional and Continuing Education, The University of Hong Kong
Teaching Areas
- Translation for Legal Work
- Advanced Legal Translation
- Advanced Translation for Business and Commerce
- Translation and Interpreting Studies: Quantitative and Empirical Methods
- Hu, Y., Liu, K.*, & Lei, L. (2026). Quantifying Syntagmatic Patterning in Translated and Native Chinese: An R-Motif Approach Based on POS Sequences. Journal of Quantitative Linguistics, 1-25. https://doi.org/10.1080/09296174.2026.2634477
- Zhu, L., Su, Y., Xu, S., & Liu, K.* (2025). Enhancing EFL argumentative writing through an AI-powered corpus: impact on learner writing proficiency. Computer Assisted Language Learning, 1-26. https://doi.org/10.1080/09588221.2025.2599152
- Kwok, H. L., Shi, Y., Xu, H., Li, D., & Liu, K.* (2025). GenAI as a translation assistant? A corpus-based study on lexical and syntactic complexity of GPT-post-edited learner translation. System, 130, 103618. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.system.2025.103618
- Su, Y., Xu, S., & Liu, K.* (2025). Adapt or adopt? Examining the efficacy of ChatGPT in providing translation feedback. The Interpreter and Translator Trainer, 19(3-4), 296-316. https://doi.org/10.1080/1750399X.2025.2541486
- Xu, S., Su, Y., & Liu, K.*. (2025). Investigating student engagement with AI-driven feedback in translation revision: A mixed-methods study. Education and Information Technologies, 30(12), 16969-16995. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10639-025-13457-0
- Liu, K., Yin, H., & Cheung, A. K. (2025). Interactional metadiscourse in translated and non-translated medical research article abstracts: a corpus-assisted study. Perspectives, 33(3), 542-562. https://doi.org/10.1080/0907676X.2024.2328756
- Wang, L., Xu, S., & Liu, K.* (2025). What Drives University Students to Use ChatGPT for Translation? Disciplinary and Experiential Influences. International Journal of Applied Linguistics. https://doi.org/10.1111/ijal.12856
- Xu, H., & Liu, K.* (2024). The impact of directionality on interpreters’ syntactic processing: Insights from syntactic dependency relation measures. Lingua, 308, 103778. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.lingua.2024.103778
- Chen, J., Li, D., & Liu, K.* (2024). Unraveling cognitive constraints in constrained languages: A comparative study of syntactic complexity in translated, EFL, and native varieties. Language Sciences, 102, 101612. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.langsci.2024.101612
- Chou, I., & Liu, K.* (2024). Style in speech and narration of two English translations of Hongloumeng: A corpus-based multidimensional study. Target, 36(1), 76-111. https://doi.org/10.1075/target.22020.cho
- Wang, Z., Cheung, A. K., & Liu, K.* (2024). Entropy-based syntactic tree analysis for text classification: a novel approach to distinguishing between original and translated Chinese texts. Digital Scholarship in the Humanities, 39(3), 984-1000. https://doi.org/10.1093/llc/fqae030
- Xu, H., & Liu, K.* (2023). Syntactic simplification in interpreted English: Dependency distance and direction measures. Lingua, 294, 103607. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.lingua.2023.103607
- Liu, Y., Cheung, A. K., & Liu, K.* (2023). Syntactic complexity of interpreted, L2 and L1 speech: a constrained language perspective. Lingua, 286, 103509. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.lingua.2023.103509
- 2024 - 2025
Principal Investigator, Modality in Common Law Judicial Discourse: A Bidirectional Parallel Corpus-Based Investigation of Judgments in Hong Kong. RGC GRF (Project No. 15601624) - 2020 - 2023
Principal Investigator, Translation or Mediation Universals? A Corpus-Based Multidimensional Analysis of Learner Translation with Professional Translation and Non-Native Language Variety. RGC GRF (Project No. 15605520) - 2022 - 2025
Principal Investigator, The Effect of Feedback on Students’ Metacognitive Strategies in Translation and Interpreting, The Hong Kong Polytechnic University Teaching Development Grantt - 2025 - 2027
Principal Investigator, Developing a GenAI-integrated Corpus Platform to Enhance Translation Teaching and Learning: A Mixed-Methods Study, PolyU Faculty Award Grant - 2025 - 2026
Principal Investigator, Enhancing EFL Writing through an AI-Powered Corpus Platform: Issues and Challenges, PolyU FLTC project
- 2021 - 2024
Co-Investigator, Translation or Mediation Universals? A Corpus-Based Multidimensional Analysis of Learner Translation with Professional Translation and Non-Native Language Variety. RGC GRF (Project No. 15602621)
- 2025 - Present
Editor-in-Chief, Generative AI and Humanities (Book Series) - 2025 - Present
Editor-in-Chief, SpringerBriefs in AI-Enhanced Language Research (Book Series) - 2024 - Present
Associate Editor, Heliyon (Journal) - 2023 - Present
Editor, Humanities and Social Sciences Communications (Journal) - 2017 - Present
Associate Editor, Translation Quarterly (Journal)
- 2023
Conference Chair, International Conference on Translation, Culture, and Technology (THTT2023), The Hong Kong Polytechnic University - 2021
Conference Secretary and Co-organiser, International Conference on Translation Studies in East Asia (2021EAST) - 2012 - Present
Executive Committee Member, Hong Kong Translation Society - 2015 - Present
Executive Committee Member, Translators Association of China
- 2023 / 2024
Outstanding Young Researcher Award, Faculty of Humanities, The Hong Kong Polytechnic University - 2022 / 2023
Dean’s Award for Research Excellence (DARE), Faculty of Humanities, The Hong Kong Polytechnic University - 2020 / 2021
Teaching Excellence Award, Department of Chinese and Bilingual Studies, The Hong Kong Polytechnic University
