Research at the Department of Chinese

The Department of Chinese conducts research on contemporary Chinese linguistics, focusing on digital communications, corpus linguistics, cognitive linguistics, sociolinguistics, and second language acquisition. Our research explores language use in modern Sinophone societies, the intersection of language and technology, the interaction between language and cognition, and the role of language in social change.

The research activities of the department have been focusing on the following areas:

  • Chinese construction grammar
  • Digital platform-mediated communication  
  • Chinese language and gender
  • East Asian languages and human bodily experience
  • Discourses regarding emerging social phenomena
  • Chinese language learning and teaching 

Recent Publications

An Expanded Massive Multilingual Dataset for High-Performance Language Technologies (HPLT) (2025)

Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics
Burchell, Laurie; De Gibert Bonet, Ona; Arefyev, Nikolay; Aulamo, Mikko; Bañón, Marta; Chen, Pinzhen; Fedorova, Mariia; Guillou, Liane; Haddow, Barry; Hajič, Jan; Helcl, Jindřich; Henriksson, Erik; Klimaszewski, Mateusz; Komulainen, Ville; Kutuzov, Andrey; Kytöniemi, Joona; Laippala, Veronika; Mæhlum, Petter; Malik, Bhavitvya; Mehryary, Farrokh; Mikhailov, Vladislav; Moghe, Nikita; Myntti, Amanda; O’Brien, Dayyán; Oepen, Stephan; Pal, Proyag; Piha, Jousia; Pyysalo, Sampo; Ramírez-Sánchez, Gema; Samuel, David; Stepachev, Pavel; Tiedemann, Jörg; Variš, Dušan; Vojtěchová, Tereza; Zaragoza-Bernabeu, Jaume
(A4 Refereed article in a conference publication )
Keywords
Chinese
See also
Department of Chinese
Research at the School of Languages and Translation Studies