University Research Areas

Information and Automation Technology

One of the Depart ment’s research foci is ‘Digital Humanities’ and faculty members are involved in both research and teaching projects that explore ‘Big Data and eLearning’. Below are some indicative examples of work by Faculty members in this area:

Big Data and eLearning Research

Carmen Lee’s main research interest lies in the area of internet linguistics, with a specific focus on multilingual practices on the internet. Her on-going work has been interested in how the affordances of digital media allow people to produce and consume new forms of multilingual and multimodal writing, and how these practices are increasingly embedded in people’s ‘offline’ everyday lives
Jookyoung Jung explores how to promote eLearning in the context of second language instruction. Within the gaze-contingency paradigm, her research project investigates if eye-tracking can be used as an educational tool to trigger learners’ attention to target second language constructions. In addition, she also explores if gamification and multimodal input can promote second language learning
Haerim Hwang explores (second) language development by analyzing both written and spoken data produced from learners. For this line of work, she creates a learner corpus, proposes novel linguistic indices explaining learner development, such as syntactic diversity, and develops natural language processing tools in Python. She expects her work in this line to contribute to improvement in the automatic assessment of learner production data, education of learners of English, and professionalization of language educators
Collier Nogues’s research explores the immersive and interactive possibilities of poetry written inside 360˚ photographs using A-Frame, the VR web framework. She also researches and publishes about creative collaboration with Generative AI. In her creative writing courses, she teaches hybrid and multimodal forms including Tumblr poems, interactive fiction in Twine, and digital erasure poetry. Students not only read works in these media but also compose their own
Wilkinson Daniel Wong Gonzales is compiling a contemporary sociolinguistic corpus of Englishes and other linguistic varieties in East Asia. The corpus will utilize a mix of machine learning and Deep Learning methods to annotate the text for part-of-speech and dependency parsing as well as impute missing social information

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General Enquiries	english@cuhk.edu.hk