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. (2024). Presidents’ Messages in Higher Education in China and US. Presented at the 5th Asia Pacific Corpus Linguistics Conference (APCLC), 25-27 October, Shanghai. 

Liu, Y. (2024). A Corpus-based Study of Phraseological Patterns in English Academic Writing. Presented at the 16th Teaching and Learning Corpora Conference (TaLC), 7-10 July, Manchester, UK.

Liu, Y. (2018). Phraseological Patterns in English Academic Texts. Presented at the 16th Asia TEFL International Conference, 27-29 June, Macau.

Liu, Y. (2018). A Contrastive Analysis of Presidents’ Messages in Higher Education. Presented at the 4th Corpora and Discourse International Conference (CAD 2018), 22-24 June, Lancaster, United Kingdom.

Liu, Y. (2015). A corpus-based study of zunshou and its English equivalents. Paper presented at the 29th Pacific Asia Conference on Language, Information and Computation (PACLIC 29), 30 October - 1 November, Shanghai, China.

Liu, Y., Fang, A. C., & Wei, N. X. (2014). A corpus-based quantitative study of nominalizations across Chinese and British Media English. Paper presented at the 28th Pacific Asia Conference on Language, Information and Computation (PACLIC 28), 12-14 December, Phuket, Thailand.

Liu, Y., Wei, N. X., & Fang, A. C. (2014). Variations in nominalization across Chinese and British Media English: A corpus-based study. Paper presented at the 6th International Conference on Corpus Linguistics (CILC 2014), 22-24 May, Las Palmas, Spain.

Liu, Y., Fang, A. C. & Wei, N. X. (2014). A corpus-based comparative-contrastive approach towards the use of nominalizations across Chinese and British Media English. Paper presented at the Second Asia Pacific Corpus Linguistics Conference (APCLC 2014), 7-9 March, Hong Kong.