Programme

9:00 - 9:30	Registration
9:30 - 9:40	Welcome address
9:40 - 10:40	Session 1 Title: Sense, emotion and figurative language Chair: Dr Sophia LEE Are synaesthetic metaphors inherently emotion-laden? A multilevel analysis of perception and emotion interactions via synaesthetic metaphors Yin ZHONG & Sicong DONG Onomatopoeia in linguistic synesthesia: Showing and saying Qingqing ZHAO (Supra-) Mundanity of Senses in Chinese Āgamas Jiajuan XIONG A Corpus-Assisted Analysis of the Representation of China’s Reform in People’s Daily Longxing LI
10:40 - 11:00	Coffee break
11:00 - 12:00	Session 2 Title: Words and the Lexicon Chair: Prof. Kathleen AHRENS Diachronic Changes of Word Length in Hong Kong Political Speeches Renkui HOU A syntactic and semantic analysis of Chinese verbs of creation Shan WANG Distribution of Chinese Adverbial "Jiu" and Its Function in Interactional Data Yue GUAN (Online) Measuring Intuitive Wordhood Strength Using Crowdsourced Word Segmentation Tasks Shichang WANG (Online)
12:00 - 14:00	Lunch break
14:00 - 15:00	Keynote speech by Prof. Shu-Kai HSIEH. Talk title: Language Resources with/in Language Models Chair: Prof. Kathleen AHRENS
15:00 - 15:05	Break
15:05 - 16:15	Session 3 Title: Discourse and Computational Modelling Chair: Dr Yao YAO Framing social issues in public discourse through metaphor: A corpus-based analysis of 'housing' metaphors in Chinese government speeches Huiheng Winnie ZENG & Menghan JIANG Evaluating ChatGPT on Chinese Grammatical Error Correction Jinghang GU A Reference Grammar Based Chinese Corpus Hongzhi XU & Jingxia LIN The linguistic behaviour of netizens under COVID-19: Analyses of comments on YouTube channels based in Macau Xi CHEN (Online) Are Transformer Language Models Sensitive to Complement Coercion? An Investigation on Mandarin Chinese and English Siyu LEI, Lavinia SALICCHI, Emmanuele CHERSONI & Enrico SANTUS
16:15 - 16:20	Closing remarks
16:20 - 16:35	Coffee break

(Updated 9 May 2023)