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Author IDs
ORCID iD: 0000-0002-6445-7400
Scopus Author ID: 13006266000
Google Scholar Profile: bJdKjIAAAAAJ
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Qualifications/Experiences
B.Eng. (Tsinghua University)
M.A. (Chinese Academy of Social Sciences)
M.Phil. (City Polytechnic of HK)
M.Sc. (Carnegie Mellon University)
PhD. (University of Sheffield)
Biography
Dr. Kit is a computational linguist currently teaching and researching in computational linguistics and machine translation in the Department of Linguistics and Translation. He joined the City University in September 1996. He obtained his BEng degree in computer science and technology from Tsinghua University (1985), MSc in computational linguistics from Carnegie Mellon University (1994) and PhD in computer science from the University of Sheffield (2001). He also holds an MA degree in applied linguistics from the Chinese Academy of Social Sciences (1988) and an MPhil in Linguistics from the City Polytechnic (later renamed University) of Hong Kong (1993). He was one of the youngest among those who pioneered Chinese language processing in the mid-1980s when he started his academic career in the Institute of Applied Linguistics, Ministry of Education, PRC. His research interests also include text mining, terminology, Chinese linguistics, psycholinguistics, poetry/poetics, and Taichi (Taijiquan) as a unique living embodiment of Chinese philosophy. He is a Chinese poet too. He has published over 100 research papers in academic journals (including Information Sciences, International Journal of Corpus Linguistics, Journal of Artificial Intelligence Research, Journal of Chinese Information Processing, Journal of Computer Science and Technology, Law Library Journal, Literary and Linguistic Computing, Machine Translation, and Terminology) and international conferences (including ACL, COLING, CoNLL, EMNLP and IJCAI). He has also contributed chapters to a number of books, including Language Acquisition, Change and Emergence (City University of Hong Kong Press, 2005), Linguistics (China Remin University Press, 2013), and The Routledge Encyclopedia of Translation Technology (Routledge, 2015).
Research Interests/Areas
- Computational linguistics
- Machine translation
- Text mining, Web mining
- Terminology, computational terminology
- Linguistics, psycholinguistics, language acquisition
- Poetry, computational poetry/poetics
- Taichi and Chinese philosophy
Teaching
- Computational linguistics / language technology / linguistic computing / Chinese computing
- Machine translation / translation technology / computer-aided translation
- Programming / computer programming for language studies / translation tools development
- Terminology
- Corpus linguistics
- Introduction to linguistics / general linguistics
- Electronic publishing / information retrieval and text processing / parsing
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Research output
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Listening to the verses: unveiling phonetic contrasts in Li Bai and Du Fu’s poetry
Meng, Y., Wan, Y. & Kit, C., 2025, In: Humanities and Social Sciences Communications. 12, 17 p., 365.Research output: Journal Publications and Reviews › RGC 21 - Publication in refereed journal › peer-review
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Sound symbolism is not “marginal” in Chinese: Evidence from diachronic rhyme books
Meng, Y., Wan, Y. & Kit, C., 2025, In: PLOS ONE. 20, 5, 18 p., e0322044.Research output: Journal Publications and Reviews › RGC 21 - Publication in refereed journal › peer-review
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互动视角下普通话儿童Wh-论元问句的习得模式研究
Translated title of the contribution :Acquisition Patterns of Wh-Argument Questions by Mandarin-Speaking Children: An Interactional Perspective Research output: Journal Publications and Reviews › RGC 21 - Publication in refereed journal › peer-review
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ByteScience: Bridging Unstructured Scientific Literature and Structured Data with Auto Fine-tuned Large Language Model in Token Granularity
Xie, T., Zhang, H., Wang, S., Wan, Y., Razzak, I., Kit, C., Zhang, W. & Hoex, B., Dec 2024, Proceedings - 24th IEEE International Conference on Data Mining Workshops, ICDMW 2024. He, Y., Hamidouche, W., Razzak, I., Hacid, H. & Panov, M. (eds.). Los Alamitos, Calif.: IEEE Computer Society, p. 907-911 (IEEE International Conference on Data Mining Workshops, ICDMW).Research output: Chapters, Conference Papers, Creative and Literary Works › RGC 32 - Refereed conference paper (with host publication) › peer-review
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Creation of a structured solar cell material dataset and performance prediction using large language models
Xie, T., Wan, Y., Zhou, Y., Huang, W., Liu, Y., Linghu, Q., Wang, S., Kit, C., Grazian, C., Zhang, W. & Hoex, B., 10 May 2024, In: Patterns. 5, 5, 100955.Research output: Journal Publications and Reviews › RGC 21 - Publication in refereed journal › peer-review
Open AccessFile8 Citations (Scopus)37 Downloads (CityUHK Scholars)
Datasets
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HKC Corpus I: 98 Chinese Adults Reading 300 Sentences and 7 Long Passages
WU, Y. (Creator) & KIT, C. Y. (Creator), Center for Open Science , 2022
DOI: 10.17605/OSF.IO/7UQ3J, https://doi.org/10.17605/OSF.IO/7uq3j
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GRF: Towards Legal AI in Hong Kong: Intelligent Judgement Prediction with Large Language Models Using Hong Kong Legal Data
KIT, C. Y. (Principal Investigator / Project Coordinator), SIN, K. K. (Co-Investigator) & ZONG, C. (Co-Investigator)
1/01/25 → …
Project: Research
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GRF: Investigation of Cognitive Effort Distribution to Translation Subtasks by Eye Tracking and Computation Modeling
KIT, C. Y. (Principal Investigator / Project Coordinator)
1/01/19 → 31/08/23
Project: Research
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LF: A Mobile, Personal Reading Tutor for Learners of Chinese
LEE, J. S. Y. (Principal Investigator / Project Coordinator), KIT, C. Y. (Co-Investigator) & WEBSTER, J. J. (Co-Investigator)
1/02/16 → 31/07/18
Project: Research
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GRF: Develop a Large Scale Chinese Reading Corpus for Machine Learning of Unconscious Word Segmentation from Eye Movements
KIT, C. Y. (Principal Investigator / Project Coordinator)
1/01/16 → 26/06/20
Project: Research
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TDG(CityU): Data-driven Evaluation of Computer-assisted Translation Systems for Pedagogical Purposes
LEE, J. S. Y. (Principal Investigator / Project Coordinator) & KIT, C. Y. (Co-Investigator)
30/06/14 → 8/10/15
Project: Research
Activities
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Reverse Wrap-up Effects in Natural Chinese Reading: Evidence from Eye Movements
WU, Y. (Speaker) & KIT, C. Y. (Speaker)
12 Dec 2025 → 14 Dec 2025Activity: Talk/lecture or presentation › Talk/lecture
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the XXIII FIT World Congress
QIN, J. (Presenter), WU, Y. (Presenter) & KIT, C. Y. (Presenter)
5 Sept 2025Activity: Organizing or Participating in a conference / an event › Conference / Symposium
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Advancing Natural Reading Research: The Hong Kong Corpus of Sentence and Passage Reading (HKC) and Insights from Multilingual Eye-Tracking Corpora
WU, Y. (Speaker) & KIT, C. Y. (Speaker)
25 Jun 2025Activity: Talk/lecture or presentation › Talk/lecture
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International Conference on Quantitative Translation and Interpreting Studies in the Age of AI
QIN, J. (Presenter), WU, Y. (Presenter) & KIT, C. Y. (Presenter)
7 Jun 2025Activity: Organizing or Participating in a conference / an event › Conference / Symposium
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The 11th Asia-Pacific Translation and Interpreting Forum
QIN, J. (Presenter), WU, Y. (Presenter) & KIT, C. Y. (Presenter)
23 May 2025Activity: Organizing or Participating in a conference / an event › Conference / Symposium
Thesis
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A Chinese lexical-functional grammar for sentence parsing
KIT, C. Y. (Author), WEBSTER, J. J. (Supervisor), 1 Nov 1993Student thesis: Master's Thesis