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Principal Investigator: Prof. WEBSTER, Jonathan

Example-based Machine Translation (EBMT) for Legal Texts

Expired
Grant Description: RGC Competitive Earmarked Research Grant

FHS Student Advising Scheme

Completed
Grant Description: CityU Teaching Development Grant

Functional Semantic Processing of Chinese and English Texts

Completed
Grant Description: CityU Strategic Research Grant

Staff development programme for school teachers: the school teachers WEBSITE management programme

Completed
Grant Description: UGC Interface Projects

Strategic Development Grant - CTL

on-going
Grant Description: CityU Strategic Development

Website Management (MMIT sub project)

Completed
Grant Description: CityU Teaching Development Grant

WWW Bilingual Chinese-English Language Dictionary Database

Completed
Grant Description: CityU Strategic Research Grant

WWW Lexical Database

Completed
Grant Description: CityU Strategic Research Grant
Principal Investigator: Mr. LEUNG, Wing Kwong Matthew

Development of an Interactive Computer-assisted Language Learning Software for the Teaching/Learning of Putonghua Phonetics for Tertiary Students

Completed
Grant Description: Research Grant funded from other External Sources
Principal Investigator: Prof. WU, Hung I

Shihua of the Qing Dynasty: Documentation and Critical Studies (The Sequel)

on-going
Grant Description: RGC Competitive Earmarked Research Grant
Principal Investigator: Prof. ZHANG, Longxi

Allegoresis: Ethics, Politics, and the Reading of Literature

Completed
Grant Description: CityU Small-scale Research Grant

Comparative Literature and Cultural Studies

on-going
Grant Description: CityU Strategic Development

Mutual Illuminations: Guide to Comparative Literature and Comparative Cultural Studies

on-going
Grant Description: CityU Strategic Research Grant for fundable CERG

Utopia East and West: A Comparative Study of the Idea of a Good Society

Completed
Grant Description: CityU Strategic Research Grant
Principal Investigator: Prof. CHEN, Y Matthew

A Cross-dialectal Survey of Tone Sandhi Phenomena

Completed
Grant Description: CityU Strategic Research Grant

Multiple Tonal Substitutions in Hakka and Tianjin

Completed
Grant Description: RGC Competitive Earmarked Research Grant

When Religions Meet

on-going
Grant Description: CityU Startup Grant for Professor
Principal Investigator: Prof. PAN, Haihua

A Comparative Study of Aspect in Cantonese and Mandarin

Completed
Grant Description: CityU Strategic Research Grant

A Comparative Study of Negation in Cantonese and Mandarin and Their Interaction with Focus

Completed
Grant Description: CityU Direct Allocation Grant

A Comparative Study of Reflexive Pronouns in English and Chinese (Cantonese, Mandarin, and Shanghainese)

Completed
Grant Description: CityU Strategic Research Grant for fundable CERG

A Semantic and Syntactic Investigation into Quantification, Eventuality, Focus and Modality 3/4 With a Special Reference to Cantonese Post-Verbal Particles

on-going
Grant Description: RGC Competitive Earmarked Research Grant

A Semantic Study of Cantonese Post-verbal Particles

on-going
Grant Description: CityU Strategic Research Grant for fundable CERG

Automatic Word Error Detection and Correction for Chinese Electronic Texts

Completed
Grant Description: RGC Competitive Earmarked Research Grant

Automatic Word Error Detection and Correction for Chinese Electronic Texts

Converted
Grant Description: CityU Strategic Research Grant

Centering Theory and Processing Local Coherence of Chinese and English Discourse

on-going
Grant Description: CityU Strategic Research Grant

Constraints on Wh-Quantification in Chinese and English

on-going
Grant Description: CityU Strategic Research Grant

Corpus-based Linguistic Knowledge Acquisition for Chinese Noun Phrase

Completed
Grant Description: CityU Strategic Research Grant

Knowledge Base of Chinese Linguistics

on-going
Grant Description: CityU Strategic Development

Statistics-based Content Classification and Information Access

Completed
Grant Description: CityU Strategic Research Grant

The Syntax and Semantics of Cantonese Predicative Suffixes

Completed
Grant Description: CityU Strategic Research Grant
Principal Investigator: Prof. ZEE, Yun Yang Eric

A Palatographic and Linguagraphic Investigation of the Syllable-initial Obstruent Sounds in Three Chinese Dialects: Beijing Mandarin, Shanghai and Cantonese

Expired
Grant Description: CityU Strategic Research Grant

A Prosodic Investigation of the Syllables and Compounds in Hong Kong Cantonese

Expired
Grant Description: RGC Competitive Earmarked Research Grant

Acoustic Characteristics of Vowels, Diphthongs, and Triphthongs in Beijing Mandarin

Completed
Grant Description: RGC Competitive Earmarked Research Grant

An Acoustic, Perceptual, and Articulatory Investigation of the Vowel Sounds in Hong Kong Cantonese

on-going
Grant Description: CityU Strategic Research Grant

An Articulatory and Acoustical Investigation of Syllable-Initial Obstruct Speech Sounds in Beijing Mandarin Chinese

Completed
Grant Description: CityU Small-scale Research Grant

An Articulatory and Prosodic Investigation of the Segments, Syllables, and Compounds in Beijing Mandarin

Completed
Grant Description: CityU Strategic Research Grant

Effects of Speech Rate on the Production of Speech Sounds in Hong Kong Cantonese

Completed
Grant Description: CityU Small-scale Research Grant

Frequency Analysis of HK Cantonese Vowels & Diphthongs from 50 Male & 50 Female Speakers

Completed
Grant Description: CityU Strategic Research Grant

Phonetics and Phonology of the Chinese Dialects: Beijing Putonghua, Hong Kong Cantonese, and Shanghai

on-going
Grant Description: RGC Competitive Earmarked Research Grant

Temporal Organization of Syllable Production in Beijing Mandarin Chinese

Completed
Grant Description: CityU Small-scale Research Grant

Temporal Structures of the Syllables and Compounds in Cantonese

Completed
Grant Description: CityU Direct Allocation Grant

Tone and Syntax Interplay in Chinese

on-going
Grant Description: CityU Strategic Development
Principal Investigator: Dr. ZHU, Chunshen

A Database of Chinese Translation Studies (1990-94): Bibliography with selected abstracts in English and Chinese

on-going
Grant Description: CityU Strategic Research Grant

A Database of Chinese Translation Studies (199599): Bibliography with Selected Abstracts in English and Chinese

on-going
Grant Description: CityU Strategic Research Grant

A Study of Formulation and Function of Chinese and English Interrogatives for the Purpose of Bilingual Language Education and Translation

Completed
Grant Description: CityU Strategic Research Grant

Machine-aided Teaching of English-Chinese Financial Translation

on-going
Grant Description: CityU Teaching Development Fund

Oscar Wilde's De Profundis and Its Chinese Translations: A Textual-stylistic Investigation with Reference to Form, Function and Effect and their Implications for Translation Methodology

Completed
Grant Description: CityU Direct Allocation Grant

Sentence-final Particles and Syntactic Structuring as Communicative Markers: A Comparative Study of Interrogatives in Chinese and English for Translation Purposes

Completed
Grant Description: CityU Small-scale Research Grant

Translation Studies in China: Towards an International and Interactive Perspective on its Current Debates, Tendencies and Future Development

Completed
Grant Description: CityU Small-scale Research Grant

Vertical Translation Units, Leitmotifs, and the Skopos: The Apurposeful Aspect of Literary Translating

Completed
Grant Description: CityU Small-scale Research Grant
Principal Investigator: Dr. CHAN, Yuet Hung Cecilia

A Sociolinguistic Study of Phonological Change and Variation of Syllable-initials /n-/ and /l-/ in Both L1 Cantonese and L2 English of Hong Kong Students

on-going
Grant Description: CityU Strategic Research Grant

An Investigation of L2 Acquisition of Reflexives-Data from L1 Chinese Learners of L2 English and L1 English Learners of L2 Chinese

Completed
Grant Description: UK/HK Joint Research Scheme

Construction of a Chinese Language Proficiency Test to be Used in Tertiary Institutions in Hong Kong

Completed
Grant Description: CityU Strategic Research Grant

Effects of Background Knowledge and Language Proficiency on the English Reading Comprehension of Hong Kong and Chinese Students

Completed
Grant Description: CityU Small-scale Research Grant

The Acquisition of English Reflexives by Chinese Speakers

Completed
Grant Description: CityU Small-scale Research Grant

The Influence of Linguistic Differences between Cantonese and Modern Standard Chinese on the Chinese Writing of Primary School Students in Hong Kong

Completed
Grant Description: CityU Strategic Research Grant

The Significance of Animal Symbolism in Ancient China

Completed
Grant Description: CityU Small-scale Research Grant
Principal Investigator: Dr. CHENG, Po Suen Maria

A Psycholinguistic Approach to the Translation Process: An Experiment with News Translators

on-going
Grant Description: CityU Strategic Research Grant

Localization of Global Magazines : A Socio-Psychological Approach

Completed
Grant Description: CityU Strategic Research Grant

The Principles and Strategies of Trans-editing for the News Media

Completed
Grant Description: CityU Direct Allocation Grant
Principal Investigator: Dr. CHENG, Ting Au

A Comprehensive Bibliography of Chinese Dialectology (1900 - 1999)

Completed
Grant Description: CityU Strategic Research Grant

Data Logging: Technical Preparation for Constructing an Example-based Lexibank of Cantonese (EBLC)

Completed
Grant Description: CityU Small-scale Research Grant

Data Logging: Technical Preparation or Constructing an Example-based Databank of Cantonese for Teaching/Learning Cantonese/Putonghua Interpretation

Completed
Grant Description: CityU Quality Enhancement Fund

Formal Patterning of Ba [?]-sentences in Contemporary Chinese

Terminated
Grant Description: CityU Direct Allocation Grant

Interpreting Device for Cantonese/Putonghua (Putonghua Counterparts)

Completed
Grant Description: CityU Quality Enhancement Fund

Lexibank for Cantonese-Mandarin-English (English Counterparts)

Completed
Grant Description: CityU Small-scale Research Grant

Pilot Investigation for Exploring Grammatical Errors in Chinese Language Learning and Use

Expired
Grant Description: CityU Quality Enhancement Fund

Pilot Investigation of Chinese Verbs: Calculating the Number of Senses of Action Verbs

Completed
Grant Description: CityU Direct Allocation Grant

Prepositional Phrases in Contrast: Evidence from Dialects of Guangzhou, Shanghai, Taiyuan and Urumqi

Completed
Grant Description: CityU Direct Allocation Grant
Principal Investigator: Dr. JIA, Jinhua

Li Bai and the Tradition of "Ancient Airs"

Completed
Grant Description: CityU Small-scale Research Grant

Synopses of the Ancient Chinese Books in the Hong Kong Collection

Expired
Grant Description: CityU Strategic Research Grant for fundable CERG

The Collections of Gathering and the Groups of Poets in the Tang Dynasty

Completed
Grant Description: CityU Direct Allocation Grant

The Hongzhou School of Chan Buddhism

Completed
Grant Description: CityU Direct Allocation Grant
Principal Investigator: Dr. KIT, Chunyu

Automatic Language Learning from Naturally-occurring Chinese Texts

Completed
Grant Description: CityU Strategic Research Grant

Corpus-based Studies of HK Legal Terminology Based on Very Large Corpora

on-going
Grant Description: RGC Competitive Earmarked Research Grant
Principal Investigator: Mr. LAI, Bong Yeung Tom

Dependency-based Parsing of Chinese ? Development of a Parsed Corpus and an Supporting Lexicon

Expired
Grant Description: CityU Strategic Research Grant

Design and Implementation of a Modular and Extensible Workbench for Natural Language Processing

Completed
Grant Description: CityU Quality Enhancement Fund

Interactive Multi-agent Natural Language Processing on the Internet Supported by a Message and Data Blackboard

Completed
Grant Description: CityU Strategic Research Grant

Remote Components for a Natural Language Processing Workbench

Completed
Grant Description: CityU Quality Enhancement Fund
Principal Investigator: Dr. LaPOLLA, Randy

Comparative Tibeto-Burman Morphosyntax

Completed
Grant Description: CityU Strategic Research Grant

Grammar, Texts, and Glossary of the Northern Qiang Dialect

Completed
Grant Description: CityU Small-scale Research Grant

Project for Fieldwork on and Analysis of the Dulong and Anung Languages

Completed
Grant Description: CityU Strategic Research Grant

Qiang Language Dialect Atlas Project

Completed
Grant Description: CityU Strategic Research Grant

Qiang Language Dialect Atlas Project

on-going
Grant Description: RGC Competitive Earmarked Research Grant

Rawang Texts and Dictionary Project

Completed
Grant Description: CityU Small-scale Research Grant

Tibeto-Burman Morphosyntax

Completed
Grant Description: CityU Strategic Research Grant
Principal Investigator: Dr. MOK, Wai Han Olivia

Subtitling Videotapes on Science and Technology: A Learning Experience for BATI Students

Completed
Grant Description: CityU Quality Enhancement Fund
Principal Investigator: Mr. NG, Sheung Chee

Changing Trends and Lasting Norms: Chinese and English Practical Writing in the Context of Bilingual Representation

Converted
Grant Description: CityU Strategic Research Grant

Changing Trends and Lasting Norms: Chinese and English Practical Writing in the Context of Bilingual Representation

on-going