Programme

Contagious Words/Epidemic Behaviours:
Language Big Data Approaches to COVID-19
17 October 2020 (Saturday) @Zoom, and @The Hong Kong Polytechnic University
Time Event
9:00-9:15 Opening Ceremony
9:15-10:15 Invited talk 1

Chinese state and society in epidemic governance, past and present. Angela KC Leung, Joseph Needham-Philip Mao Professor in Chinese History, Science & Civilization, will talk about her historical data driven research on the governance of epidemics in imperial China.

[Video] [PPT]
10:15-10:45
Bayesian Network analysis of the Australian Bureau of Statistics COVID-19 Household Survey. Christine M. Ji et al. [University of Sydney]

[Video] [PPT]

Relevant publications

  • M. Ji and M. Oakes (eds.) Advances in Empirical Translation Studies: Developing Translation Resources and Technologies, New York: Cambridge University Press 
  • M. Ji and S. Laviosa (eds.) The Oxford Handbook of Translation and Social Practices, New York: Oxford University Press
  • M. Ji, P. Bouillon, M. Seligman (under contract) Translation Technology in Accessible Health Communication, New York: Cambridge University Press  P. Faber, M. Ji and León-Araúz (under contract) Environmental Linguistics and Communication, New York/Cambridge: Cambridge University Press
  • M. Ji (ed.) (under contract) Transcreation: Creativity in Translation, In Leonardo, Massachusetts, United States: The MIT Press
  • M. Ji and M. Oakes (eds. in press) The data turn in empirical translation studies, special issue of Meta: Journal des traducteurs, Les presses de l'Université de Montréal (French/English bilingual)
  • M. Ji (in French, in press) Traduction en environnement: genres et constantes, Montréal, Canada, Les presses de l'Université de Montréal  S. Petrilli and M. Ji (eds.) (in press) Translatability of Social Emotions, Palgrave, UK
  • M. Ji and Michael Oakes (eds.) (in press) Corpus Exploration of Lexis and Discourse in Translation, Oxon, Routledge
10:45-11:00 Break
11:00-11:30
Contagious words and epidemic behaviors: A usage-based exploration of internet neologisms related to COVID-19. Siyu Lei et al. [Xian Jiaotung University, PolyU]

[Video] [PPT]

Relevant publication

  • Siyu Lei, Chu-ren Huang and Ruiying Yang. (under review). Contagious words and epidemic behaviors: A usage-based exploration of internet neologisms related to COVID-19.
11:30-12:00
Epidemic or Memetic: Modelling Chinese Neologisms with internet usage data. Menghan Jiang et al. [PolyU, CUHK, Peking University]

[Video] [PPT]

Relevant publication

  • Menghan Jiang et al. (under review). Memetic or Epidemic: Modelling Internet- Based Neologisms in China 2008-2016
12:00-12:30
Extreme Multilabel Classification on Covid19 Literature. Jinghang Gu et al. [PolyU]

[Video]
14:00-15:00 Invited talk 2

Observational data in the pandemic – problems with both the numerator and the denominator

[Video]

Christian Reich, VP Real World Analytics Solutions of IQVIA, will talk about how to correlate the sentiments and conversation trends to the actual progression of the disease, especially in the context of COVID-19 and available clinical and other resources.
15:00-15:30
From Contact Prevention to Social Distancing: The Co-evolution of Bilingual Neologisms and Public Health Campaigns in Two Cities in the Time of COVID-19. Xiaowen Wang et al. [Guangdong University of Foreign Studies, PolyU]

[Video]

Relevant publication

  • Xiaowen Wang et al. (under review). From Contact Prevention to Social Distancing: The Co-evolution of Bilingual Neologisms and Public Health Campaigns in Two Cities in the Time of COVID-19
15:30-16:00
Grappling with the COVID-19 health crisis: Analysis of communication strategies and their effects on public engagement on social media. Cindy Sing Bik Ngai et al. [PolyU, HKU, BUHK]

[Video] [PPT]

Relevant publication

  • Cindy Sing Bik Ngai et al. (2020). Grappling with the COVID-19 health crisis: Analysis of communication strategies and their effects on public engagement on social media. Journal of Medical Internet Research. https://doi.org/10.2196/21360
16:00-16:30
Social Media Keyphrase Prediction for COVID-19 Context Modelling. Jing Li et al. [PolyU]

[Video] [PPT]

16:30-16:45 Break
16:45-17:15
Two Tales of One city: Unveiling the sentiments and conceptual metaphors for a pandemic in Macao. Vincent Xian Wang et al. [University of Macau, Macau Polytechnic Institute, PolyU]

[Video] [PPT]

Relevant publication

  • Vincent Xian Wang et al. (shortlisted).Two tales of a city: Unveiling the sentiments and conceptual metaphors for a pandemic in Macao. Special Issue on COVID-19 of the International Journal of Corpus Linguistics.

Relevant project

  • “瘟疫期間的希望與痛楚 — 基於澳門語料的隱喻和通感研究 HOPE and PAIN in the Time of a Pandemic: A corpus-based study of metaphor and synaesthesia in Macau”. Specialized Subsidy Scheme for Macao Higher Education Institutions in the Area of Research in Humanities and Social Sciences. HSS-UMAC-2020-10.
17:15-17:45
Understanding and Combating ‘Infodemic’: A Corpus Linguistic Approach to Analyzing COVID19 Misinformation. MingyuWan et al. [PolyU, Peking University]

[Video] [PPT]

Relevant publication

  • Mingyu Wan et al. (shortlisted). Understanding and Combating ‘Infodemic’: A Corpus Linguistic Approach to Analyzing COVID19 Misinformation. Special Issue on COVID-19 of the International Journal of Corpus Linguistics
17:45-18:00 Closing Ceremony
18:00-19:00 Internal Research Discussion
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