RESEARCH INTERESTS

• Syntactic Theory
• (Formal) Semantics
• Corpus Linguistics
• Machine Translation
• Computational Linguistics

EDUCATION

• Ph.D. in Linguistics 1995 Department of Linguistics, University of Texas at Austin, Austin, Texas, USA 

  Ph.D Thesis: Locality, Self-Ascription, Discourse Prominence, and Mandarin
                       Reflexives (abstract, contents, gz, zip, ps) (see PUBLICATIONS)
  Advisors: Manfred Krifka, Robert F. Simmons (Carl L Baker)

• M.A. in Computer Science 1986 Wuhan University, Wuhan, China    (more pictures)  M.A. Thesis: An Artificial Intelligence Approach to Machine Translation (MT)
• B.A. in Computer Science 1983 Huazhong University of Science & Technology (English version) (HUST, Alumini), Wuhan, China  (more pictures)

ON-GOING AND COMPLETED RESEARCH PROJECTS

• Prominence and Differential Grammatical Marking in the Encoding of Syntactic Categories --- A Study with Special Reference to Chinese (CityU 146509),  RGC Competitive Earmarked Research Grant (CERG) #9041462, Hong Kong Government, 01/10-12/11.
• An Argument-Structure Based Approach to Transitivity Alternations: With Special Reference to Chinese and English (CityU 148607),  RGC Competitive Earmarked Research Grant (CERG) #9041288, Hong Kong Government, 01/08-02/11.
• A Syntactic and Semantic Investigation into Topic and Focus Articulations in Chinese (Mandarin and Wu Dialects) (CityU 1514/06H),  RGC Competitive Earmarked Research Grant (CERG) #9041187, Hong Kong Government, 01/07-12/09.
• Prominence and Locality in Grammar: An Experimental Study of the Conceptualization of Quantification Scope in Chinese (CityU 1501/05H),  RGC Competitive Earmarked Research Grant (CERG) #9041067, Hong Kong Government, 11/05-10/08.
• The Syntax of Retained Object Constructions in Mandarin Chinese, Strategic Research Grant #7001917, Principal Investigator, City University of Hong Kong, 06/2006- 05-2008.
• A Semantic and Syntactic Investigation into Quantification, Eventuality, Focus and Modality - With a Special Reference to Cantonese Post-Verbal Particles (CityU 1290/03H), RGC Competitive Earmarked Research Grant (CERG) #9040855, Hong Kong Government, 11/03-10-06
• Constraints on Wh-Quantification in Chinese and English, Strategic Research Grant #7001509, Principal Investigator, City University of Hong Kong, 06/2003- completed
• A Semantic Study of Cantonese Post-Verbal Particles, Strategic Research Grant #7001397, Principal Investigator, City University of Hong Kong, 09/2002- completed
• A Comparative Study of Negation in Cantonese and Mandarin and Their Interaction with Focus, Direct Allocation Grant #7100234, Principal Investigator, City University of Hong Kong, 05/2002- completed
• Centering Theory and Processing Local Coherence of Chinese and English Discourse, Strategic Research Grant #7001319, Principal Investigator, City University of Hong Kong, 03/2002- completed
• The Syntax and Semantics of Cantonese Predicate Suffixes, Strategic Research Grant #7001252, Principal Investigator, City University of Hong Kong, 07/2001- completed.
• A Comparative Study of Reflexive Pronouns in Chinese and English, Strategic Research Grant #7001122, Principal Investigator, City University of Hong Kong, 01/2001- completed
• A Comparative Study of Aspect in Cantonese and Mandarin,  Strategic Research Grant #7000994, Principal Investigator, City University of Hong Kong, 6/00-completed
• Example-based Machine Translation (EBMT) for Legal Texts,  RGC Competitive Earmarked Research Grant (CERG) #9040482, Hong Kong Government, Co-investigator, 7/00 - completed (Principal Investigator, Dr. Jonathan Webster)
• Focus and Sentence Interpretation, Strategic Research Grant #7000811, Co-investigator, City University of Hong Kong, 7/98 - completed (Principal Investigator, Xu Liejiong)
• Automatic Word Error Detection and Correction for Chinese Electronic Texts, RGC Competitive Earmarked Research Grant (CERG) #9040329, Principal Investigator, Hong Kong Government, completed
• Statistics-based Content classification and Information Access, Strategic Research Grant #7000626, Principal Investigator, City University of Hong Kong, completed
• Corpus-based Linguistic Knowledge Acquisition for Chinese Noun Phrase Extraction, Strategic Research grant #7000543, Principal Investigator, City University of Hong Kong, completed
• A Workstation Environment for Chinese Text Analysis and Processing, Strategic Research Grant, Associate Investigator, City University of Hong Kong, completed
• CityU-BALIS Website Management Program, Supervisory Team Member, Teaching Development Fund, City University of Hong Kong, 1996-present
• Design and Implementation of a Modular and Extensible Workbench for Natural Language Processing, Team Member, Quality Enhancement Fund, City University of Hong Kong, completed
• An English-Chinese Machine Translation System for Scientific Sentences, University Science Foundation of HUST, Principal Investigator, 1986-88, completed.

ORGANIZATIONAL EXPERIENCE

• Programme Committee, The 5th Chinese Lexical Semantics Workshop (CLSW-5), Singapore (June 14-16, 2004) and Genting Highland, Malaysia (June 17-19, 2004)
• Program committee, Workshop on the Syntax and Semantics of Existence, University of Nancy 2, Nancy, FRANCE, 26-28 September 2002
• Organizing committee, First International Conference on Modern Chinese Grammar for the New Millennium, City University of Hong Kong, Feb. 1-3, 2001
• Organizing committee, Symposium on the Referential Property of Noun Phrases in Chinese (Relevant Publication) (1996)
• Program committee, The 10th Pacific Asia Conference on Language, Information and Computation (1996)
• Editorial board member of Language Research, Seoul, Korea (2002-2004)
• Editorial board member of the Contemporary Linguistic Theory Series, China Social Sciences Publishing House, Beijing, China (1996-)
• Editorial board member of Linguistics & Applied Linguistics, Guangzhou, Guangdong, China (1997-)
• Editorial board member of Contemporary Linguistics, Beijing, China (2001-)

REFEREE WORK

• Computer Processing of Oriental Languages (1998)
• Journal of East Asian Linguistics (1997, 2000-2002)
• Journal of Linguistics (2002)
• Linguistic Inquiry (2001)
• Linguistics (1998)
• Contemporary Linguistics (China) (1999, 2001)
• Natural Language and Linguistic Theory (1995-1999)
• Natural Language Semantics (1996)
• SynCom (2001) 
• Zhouguo Yuwen (Chinese Language) (2002)
• Working Papers in Linguistics, Chinese University of Hong Kong (1997)
• UGC Grant Proposal Review (1998)
• External examiners of the following Ph. D. theses: Binli Wen (Guangdong Foreign Studies University, 1997), Yaqing Wu (Guangdong Foreign Studies University, 2000), Jun Da (The University of Texas at Austin, 2000), Hongbiao Chen (Guangdong Foreign Studies University, 2001), Jiayue Wang (Guangdong Foreign Studies University, 2001), Yuzhu Tang (Guangdong Foreign Studies University, 2002)
• Reviewer: the Asian Language session of the Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics, the Hong Kong University of Science & Technology, 3-6 Oct. 2000; the International Symposium on Topic and Focus, the Hong Kong Polytechnic University, Hong Kong, 21-23 June 2000; and the 14^th North-American Conference on Chinese Linguistics, Tucson, Arizona, USA, May 15-17, 2002.

DISSERTATIONS

• HU, Jianhua, Prominence and Locality in Grammar: The Syntax and Semantics of Wh-Questions and Reflexives (PDF Files: cover, abbrev, abst, chap1, chap2, chap3, chap4, ref), City University of Hong Kong, June 2002.
• LEE, P.-L. Peppina, Affixal Quantification: A Syntax-Semantics Mapping Approach to Cantonese Suffixal Quantifiers, With Special Reference to Cantonese Verbal Particles, City University of Hong Kong, March 2003 (The thesis can be downloaded at the USC Chinese Linguistics website, or here).

MEMBERSHIP

• Linguistic Society of Hong Kong (1995-)
• Terminology Society of Hong Kong (1999-)
• Linguistic Society of America (1989-)
• International Association for Chinese Linguistics (1990-1993, 1998, 2000-)
• Association for Computational Linguistics (1990-1993)

AWARDS AND HONORARY POSITIONS HELD

• Adjunct Professor, Department of Linguistics, Hunan University, Changsha, China (9/2001 -)
• Adjunct Professor, Institute of Chinese Language Research, Huazhong University of Science and Technology, Wuhan, China (2000--)
• Research Scientist, Research Centre for General Linguistics, Typology and Universals (ZAS), Berlin, Germany, Oct. 1-12, 1998
• Adjunct Research Fellow, Institute of Language Research, Shanghai Normal University, Shanghai, China (1997--)
• LSA Fellowship for the Summer Institute of Linguistics, Tucson, Arizona, 1989
• MCC Competitive Fellowship at the then Center for Cognitive Science, the University of Texas at Austin, 1988-89
• HUST Excellent M.A. Thesis Award (third prize), Wuhan, China, 1986.

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