Prof Chu-Ren Huang

Chu-Ren Huang, Ph.D. (Cornell), Dr.h.c.(Aix-Marseille), built his academic career at Academia Sinica and The Hong Kong Polytechnic University. He is fascinated by what language can tell us about human cognition and our collective reactions to natural and social environments. His recent books include Cambridge Handbook of Chinese Linguistics, Reference Grammar of Chinese, and Student Grammar of Chinese by Cambridge. He publishes in top journals across different disciplines, including Behavior Research Methods; Computational Linguistics; Cognitive Linguistics; Corpus Linguistics and Linguistic Theories; Humanities and Social Sciences Communications; IEEE Transactions in Affective Computing; Knowledge-based Systems; Language, Cognition and Neuroscience; Language Resources and Evaluation; Language Sciences; Lingua; Linguistics, Linguistics Vanguard; Natural Language Processing; PLoS One; Sage Open; Scientific Reports; etc. He is a Top 2% (Career Long) Scientist in Artificial Intelligence and Image Processing since 2024.

 

 

 

 

Prof Shalom Lappin

Shalom Lappin is Professor of Natural Language Processing in the School of Electronic Engineering and Computer Science at Queen Mary University of London, Senior Scientific Researcher in the Centre for Linguistic Theory and Studies in Probability at the University of Gothenburg, and Emeritus Professor of Computational Linguistics at King's College London. He is a Fellow of the British Academy and a Member of the Academaea Europea.

 

 

 

 

Prof Mark Liberman

As a researcher and research manager at AT&T Bell Labs from 1975-1990, as a member of Penn’s faculty since 1990, and as founder and director of the Linguistic Data Consortium since 1992, Liberman has participated actively in the evolution of speech and language research towards a model of quantitative, replicable studies based on well-defined datasets. The LDC has distributed more than 220,00 copies of more than 3,000 datasets to more than 6,000 research organizations in more than 100 countries. The availability of such datasets has been a key enabler of progress in applications such as speech recognition, speech synthesis, machine translation, document retrieval, and information extraction. Liberman's own research has touched on all of those areas, as well as the use of such technologies in empirical research on human speech, language, and communication. In recent years, he has been especially focused on clinical and educational applications.

 

 

 

 

Prof Marco Marelli

Marco Marelli is a full professor of General Psychology at the University of Milano-Bicocca, Milano, Italy. His works focus on the psychology of language and memory, and in particular on the varying involvement of semantics in a number of different processes, and the interface between language, sensorimotor experience and the conceptual system. In his research he combines methods from experimental psychology, cognitive neuroscience and computational linguistics. He is currently principal investigator of the ERC project "BraveNewWord", dedicated to the semantics of unfamiliar words as emerging from compositionality (at the level of both sentences and morphologically complex words) and systematicity (in a statistical learning perspective).

 

 

 

 

Prof Derek F. Wong

Derek F. Wong is a Full Professor at the University of Macau, where he leads the Natural Language Processing and Chinese–Portuguese Machine Translation Laboratory (NLP2CT Lab). He is an active contributor to the research community, serving on the Board of Directors and the Machine Translation Steering Committee of the Chinese Information Processing Society of China (CIPS), the Natural Language Processing Committee of the China Computer Federation (CCF), and as a Member-at-Large of the Asian Federation of Natural Language Processing (AFNLP). Prof. Wong also holds key editorial roles, including Associate Editor for IEEE/ACM Transactions on Audio, Speech, and Language Processing (TASLP) and ACM Transactions on Asian and Low-Resource Language Information Processing (TALLIP), and Action Editor for Transactions of the Association for Computational Linguistics (TACL) and the ACL Rolling Review (ARR). His research excellence has been recognized with several prestigious awards, including the Second-Class Prize in both the Science and Technology Progress (2012) and Technological Invention (2022) categories of the Macao Science and Technology Awards, the FST Research Excellence Award, and the Incentive Scheme for Outstanding Academic Staff (2022), as well as the Teaching Excellence Award (2024) from the University of Macau. He has further contributed to the international NLP community as Program Co-Chair, Senior Area Co-Chair, Area Co-Chair, and Program Committee Member for top-tier conferences such as ACL, NeurIPS, ICML, IJCAI, AAAI, EMNLP, NAACL, COLING, and IJCNLP.