Funded Projects:

Principle Investigator. Leveraging Advanced Language Models for Personalized Education: Design and Evaluation of AI-assisted Course Tutoring. Teaching Innovation Grant 2024, The Chinese University of Hong Kong, Shenzhen, RMB80,000 (2024-2026)

Principle Investigator. A Contrastive Analysis of Presidents’ Messages in Higher Education in China and US. HSS Research Grant, The Chinese University of Hong Kong, Shenzhen, RMB30,000 (2023-2025)

Publications:

Liu, Y., Fang, A. C., & Wei, N. X. (2017). A corpus-based study of syntactic patterns of nominalizations across Chinese and British Media English. In Z. C. Xu, D. Y. He & D. Deterding. (Eds.). Researching Chinese English: State of the Art, pp. 77-92. Dordrecht: Springer.

Liu, Y., Wei, N. X., & Fang, A. C. (2016). Variations in nominalizations across Chinese and British Media English: A corpus-based study. In F. A. Almeida, I. O. Barrera, E. Q. Toledo & M. S. Cuervo (Eds.). Input a Word, Analyze the World: Selected Approaches to Corpus Linguistics, pp. 183-200. Newcastle upon Tyne: Cambridge Scholars Publishing.

Liu, Y. (2015). A Corpus-based study of zunshou and its English equivalents. In Proceedings of the 29th Pacific Asia Conference on Language, Information and Computation (PACLIC 29), pp. 378-386. 

Liu, Y., Fang, A. C., & Wei, N. X. (2014). A corpus-based quantitative study of nominalizations across Chinese and British Media English. In Proceedings of the 28th Pacific Asia Conference on Language, Information and Computation (PACLIC 28), pp. 101-110. 

Liu, Y. (2014). Subjectless clauses in Chinese political texts: Features and their English equivalents. In N. X. Wei and J. Lu, (Eds.). Phraseology in Contrast: Evidence from English-Chinese Corpora, pp. 210-232. Beijing: Foreign Language Teaching and Research Press.

Conference Presentations:

Liu, Y. (2025, July 25-27). Variations in nominalization across Chinese and British Media English [Conference presentation]. The 26^th Conference of the International Association for World Englishes (IAWE26), Giessen, Germany. https://www.uni-giessen.de/en/faculties/f05/engl/ling/iawe26

Liu, Y. (2025, July 18-20). The design and evaluation of AI-assisted tutor for personalized education [Conference presentation]. The International Conference of Computer-Assisted Language Learning 2025 (JALTCALL 2025), Tokyo, Japan. https://jaltcall.org/jaltcall-2025/

Liu, Y. (2025, July 10-13). A contrastive analysis of welcome messages from presidents in universities [Conference presentation]. The 23^rd AsiaTEFL International Conference 2025, Hong Kong, China. https://www.asiatefl2025.org/

Liu, Y. & Wang, Q. (2025, July 4-7). Leveraging large language models for personalized course tutoring [Conference presentation]. International Summit on the Use of AI in Learning and Teaching Languages and Other Subjects, Hong Kong, China. https://events.polyu.edu.hk/AIinLT/home

Liu, Y. (2024, October 25-27). Presidents’ messages in higher education in China and US [Conference presentation]. The 5^th Asia Pacific Corpus Linguistics Conference (APCLC 2024), Shanghai, China. https://apclc2024.org/

Liu, Y. (2024, July 7-10). A corpus-based study of phraseological patterns in English academic writing [Conference presentation]. The 16^th Teaching and Language Corpora Conference (TaLC 2024), Manchester, UK. https://talc2024.co.uk/