Chunyu Kit's Homepage

A man can succeed at almost anything for which he has unlimited enthusiasm.

-- Charles M. Schwab

Chunyu KIT (Official homepage)

Professor || BEng (Tsinghua), MA (CASS), MPhil (CPHK), MSc (CMU), PhD (Sheffield)

Department of Linguistics and Translation, City University of Hong Kong,
|| Rm: LI 5486 | E-mail: ctckit (a) cityu.edu.hk || Tel.: +852 3442 9310 (O), 9810 0731 (M), +86 135 3948 3937 || Fax: +852 3442 0358, 3442 0359 ||

Research Interests: Computational linguistics / terminology, machine translation / computer-aided translation / human computer interactive translation / cognitive studies of translation / poetry translation / terminology translation, Chinese/computational poetry/poetics, machine learning of natural language, Taichi & Chinese/Buddhist/Taoist philosophy ...

Teaching: Computational linguistics, machine translation / computer-aided translation / human computer interactive translation, terminology / terminology & translation, language technology, ...

Publications [corresponding author marked with *] and my Google scholar citations

Meng Y., Wan, Y. & C. Kit* (2025). Sound symbolism is not “marginal” in Chinese: Evidence from diachronic rhyme books. PLOS ONE, 20(5): e0322044. [SCI IF 2.9 (2023), Q1 32/134, Multidisciplinary Sciences]
Meng Y., Wan, Y. & C. Kit* (2025). Listening to the Verses: Unveiling phonetic contrasts in Li Bai and Du Fu’s poetry. Humanities and Social Sciences Communications, 12: 365. [SCI IF 3.7 (2023), Q1 1/411 in Humanities, Multidisciplinary & Q1 13/267 in Social Sciences, Interdisciplinary]
Li, S., Kit, C., & Cheng, L.* (2024). Unveiling the landscape of onomastics from 1972 to 2022: A bibliometric analysis. Names, 72(3):40–64. Recipient of the 2024 Best Article of the Year.
Xie, T., Wan, Y., Zhou, Y., Huang, W., Liu, Y., Linghu, Q., Wang, S., Kit, C.*, Grazian, C., Zhang, W., & Hoex, B.* (2024). Creation of a structured solar cell material dataset and performance prediction using large language models. Patterns, 5(5): 100955. [SCI IF 6.7 (2023), Q1 31/197 Computer Science, AI & Q1 26/249 Computer Science, Information Systems]
Xie, T., Wan, Y., Wang, H., Østrøm, I., Wang, S., He, M., Deng, R., Wu, X., Grazian, C., Kit, C.*, and Hoex, B.* (2024). Opinion mining by convolutional neural networks for maximizing discoverability of nanomaterials. Journal of Chemical Information and Modeling, 64(7): 2746–59. [SCI IF 5.6 (2023), Q1 10/72 Chemistry, Medicinal / Q2 60/230 Chemistry, Multidisciplinary]
Meng, Y., Wan, Y. & Kit, C.* (2024). Du Fu’s conspicuous negativity and Li Bai’s hidden positivity: A sentiment comparison and exploration. Digital Scholarship in the Humanities, 39(1):280–295. Oxford University Press. [SCI IF 0.7 (2023), Q3 177/297 Linguistics; JCI Q1 60/406 Humanities, multidisciplinary & Q2 75/297 in Linguistics]
Wu, Y & Kit, C*. (2023). Hong Kong Corpus of Chinese Sentence and Passage Reading. Scientific Data, 10, 899. [SCI IF 5.8, Q1 16/134 Multidisciplinary Sciences]
Meichun Liu & Chunyu Kit (Eds). 2023. Lexical Semantics towards the Big-data Era, special issue of Chinese Language and Discourse, 14:1. John Benjamins. 207 p.
Chunyu Kit, Ying Lu & Meichun Liu. 2022. What more can empirical contextual data tell about the real usage of words and collocations? A case study of the qià (恰) cluster with Chinese Gigaword data, Chinese Language and Discourse, 13(1):50-99. John Benjamins. 50 p. https://doi.org/10.1075/cld.00041.kit
Kit, C. 2022. An Embroidering Needle through Ribs: Poem selection 2012-2020 (《一枚繡花針在肋骨間穿行》). Hong Kong: Manuscript Publishing Ltd. Recipient of Project Grant, HK Arts Development Council.
Chunyu Kit & Yingying Meng. 2022. A Corpus-based Comparative Study of Li Bai and Du Fu's poetry, Chinese Language Review (Hong Kong), Issue 125 (2021 Nov.), pp. 20-33. 14 p. The Chinese Language Society of Hong Kong. http://huayuqiao.org/DOCC/DOC125/NO_020.php
Li, Siyue and Kit, Chunyu. 2021. Legislative discourse of digital governance: a corpus-driven comparative study of laws in the European Union and China, International Journal of Legal Discourse, 6(2): 349-379. De Gruyter. 30 p. https://doi.org/10.1515/ijld-2021-2059
Meichun Liu, Chunyu Kit and Qi Su (Eds.) 2021. Chinese Lexical Semantics 21st Workshop, CLSW 2020, Hong Kong, China, May 28–30, 2020, Revised Selected Papers. LNCS 12278. Springer. 917 p. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-81197-6
Wuya Chen, Chunyu Kit, Xiaojun Quan, Zhengcheng Min & Jiahai Wang. 2020. Multi-choice relational reasoning for machine reading comprehension. In COLING 2020, pp. 6448-6458. Barcelona.
Chunyu Kit. 2020. Taijiquan as a unique living embodiment of Chinese philosophy: its essence, content, and terminology, in Sin-wai Chan (Ed.), The Routledge Encyclopedia of Traditional Chinese Culture, pp.400-417. Routledge.
Chunyu Kit. 2018. Crossing a River on a Petal of Sound: Poem selection 1982-2011 (《乘一朵声音过河》). Hong Kong: Manuscript Publishing Ltd. Recipient of Project Grant, HK Arts Development Council.
Chunyu Kit & Meichun Liu. 2018. Frontiers of Empirical and Corpus Linguistics 《实证和语料库语言学前沿》. Beijing: China Social Sciences Press.
Chunyu Kit. 2018. The origins and frontiers of empirical linguistics. In Chunyu Kit & Meichun Liu (eds.), Frontiers of Empirical and Corpus Linguistics, pp. 1-28. Beijing: China Social Sciences Press.
Hai Zhao, Deng Cai, Changning Huang & Chunyu Kit. 2018. Chinese word segmentation: Another decade review (2007-2017). In Chunyu Kit & Meichun Liu (eds.), Frontiers of Empirical and Corpus Linguistics, pp. 139-162. Beijing: China Social Sciences Press.
Nannan Zhou & Chunyu Kit*. 2018. The effects of spacing on the reading of Chinese: more evidence from eye movements. In Chunyu Kit & Meichun Liu (eds.), Frontiers of Empirical and Corpus Linguistics, pp. 257-300. Beijing: China Social Sciences Press.
Ting-Wei Wu, Nannan Zhou, & Chunyu Kit*. 2018. An eye tracking study of cognitive effort allocation across translation subtasks. In Chunyu Kit & Meichun Liu (eds.), Frontiers of Empirical and Corpus Linguistics, pp. 301-341, Beijing: China Social Sciences Press.
Chaochao Wang, Deyi Xiong, Min Zhang, & Chunyu Kit. 2015. Learning bilingual distributed phrase representations for statistical machine translation. In Proceedings of MT Summit XV, Vol. 1, pp. 32-43. Oct 30-Nov. 3, 2015. Miami.
Xiaojun Quan & Chunyu Kit*. 2015. Towards non‐monotonic sentence alignment. Information Sciences, 323:34-47. Elsevier. [SCI 3.364, Q1, 8/145 Computer Science, Information Systems]
Xiaojun Quan, Chunyu Kit, Yong Ge, & Sinno Jialin Pan. 2015. Short and sparse text topic modeling via self-aggregation. In IJCAI 2015, pp. 2270-2276. July 25-31, 2015, Buenos Aires, Argentina.
Chunyu Kit & Jian-Yun Nie. 2015. Information retrieval and text mining. Chapter 31 in Sin-wai Chan (ed.), The Routledge Encyclopedia of Translation Technology, pp. 494-535. Routledge.
Chunyu Kit & Tak-Ming Wong. 2015. Evaluation in machine translation and computer-aided translation. Chapter 12 in Sin-wai Chan (ed.), The Routledge Encyclopedia of Translation Technology, pp. 213-236. Routledge.
Chunyu Kit. 2013. Recent advances in computational linguistics. A book chapter in Jenny Wang & Dongdong Chen (eds.), Linguistics, pp. 585-633. China Renmin University Press. (In Chinese)
Chengzhi Zhang, Xuchen Yao, & Chunyu Kit. 2013. Finding more bilingual web pages with high credibility via link analysis. In Proceedings of the Sixth Workshop on Building and Using Comparable Corpora (BUCC 2013), pp.138-143. 8 August 2013, Sofia, Bulgaria
Xiaona Ren, Xiao Chen, & Chunyu Kit. 2013. Combine constituent and dependency parsing via reranking. In IJCAI 2013, pp. 2155-2161 August 6-9, 2013. Beijing.
Xiaojun Quan, Chunyu Kit, & Yan Song. 2013. Non-monotonic sentence alignment via semi-supervised learning. In ACL 2013, Volume 1, pp. 622-630. August 4-9, 2013, Sofia.
Hai Zhao, Xiaotian Zhang, & Chunyu Kit*. 2013. Integrative semantic dependency parsing via efficient large-scale feature selection. Journal of Artificial Intelligence Research (JAIR), Volume 46, pages 203-233. [SCI 0.904, Q3, 76/121 Computer Science, Artificial Intelligence]
Jianqiang Ma, Chunyu Kit, & Dale Gerdemann. 2012. Semi-automatic annotation of Chinese word structure. In the 2nd CIPS-SIGHAN Joint Conference on Chinese Language Processing (CLP-2012), pp.9-17. Dec 20-21, 2012, Tianjin, China.
Yan Song, Prescot Klassen, Fei Xia, & Chunyu Kit. 2012. Entropy-based training data selection for domain adaptation. In Proceedings of COLING 2012: Posters, pp.1191-1200. Dec. 8-15, 2012. Mumbai, India.
Billy T.M. Wong & Chunyu Kit. 2012. Extending machine translation evaluation metrics with lexical cohesion to document level. In EMNLP-CoNLL 2012, pp.1060-1068. July 12-14, 2012, Jeju, Korea.
Xiao Chen & Chunyu Kit. 2012. Higher-order constituent parsing and parser combination. In ACL 2012, Vol. 2, pp.1-5. July 8-14, 2012, Jeju, Korea.
Yan Song, Changning Huang, & Chunyu Kit. 2012. Construction of Chinese CCGbank. Journal of Chinese Information Processing, 26(3):3-8. (In Chinese)
Ruifeng Xu & Chunyu Kit (Guest editors). 2011. Guest Editor's Introduction, Special Issue: Selected papers from IJCPOL 2011, International Journal of Computer Processing of Languages, 23(4):307-308.
Ruifeng Xu & Chunyu Kit. 2011. Learning multiple level features for opinion analysis, International Journal of Computer Processing of Languages, 23(4):349-371.
Billy T.M. Wong, Cecilia F.K. Pun, Chunyu Kit, & Jonathan J. Webster. 2011. Lexical cohesion for evaluation of machine translation at document level. In NLPKE 2011 7th International Conference on Natural Language Processing and Knowledge Engineering (NLP-KE 2011), pp.238-242. Nov. 27-29, 2011, Tokushima, Japan.
Xiao Chen & Chunyu Kit. 2011. Improving part-of-speech tagging for context-free parsing, in Proceedings of the 5th International Joint Conference on Natural Language Processing (IJCNLP 2011), pp.1260-1268. November 8-13, 2011, Chiang Mai, Thailand.
Billy Wong & Chunyu Kit. 2011. Comparative evaluation of term informativeness measures for machine translation evaluation metrics, in MT Summit 2011, pp.537-544. Sep 19-23, 2011, Xiamen, China.
Hai Zhao & Chunyu Kit*. 2011. Integrating unsupervised and supervised word segmentation: The role of goodness measures. Information Sciences, 181(1):163-183. Elsevier. [SCI 2.833, Q1, 10/128 Computer Science, Information Systems]
Hio Tong Chan & Chunyu Kit. 2010. Two cores in Chinese negation system: A corpus-based view. In Proceedings - 2010 International Conference on Asian Language Processing (IALP 2010), pp. 87-90. Dec. 28-30, 2010. Harbin, China.
Xiaona Ren, Qiaoli Zhou, Chunyu Kit & Dongfeng Cai. 2010. Automatic identification of predicate heads in Chinese sentences. In CLP 2010: CIPS-SIGHAN Joint Conference on Chinese Language Processing, pp.93-98. Aug. 28-29, 2010, Beijing.
Ruifeng Xu, Jun Xu, Xiangying Dai & Chunyu Kit. 2010. Combine person name and person identity recognition and document clustering for Chinese person name disambiguation. In CLP 2010: CIPS-SIGHAN Joint Conference on Chinese Language Processing, pp.359-365. Aug. 28-29, 2010, Beijing.
Yan Song, Chunyu Kit & Hai Zhao. 2010. Reranking with multiple features for better transliteration. In Proceedings of the 2010 Named Entities Workshop, pp.62-65. July 16, 2010, Uppsala, Sweden.
Billy Wong & Chunyu Kit. 2010. The parameter-optimized ATEC metric for MT evaluation. In Proceedings of the Joint Fifth Workshop on Statistical Machine Translation and MetricsMATR, pp.360-364. July 15–16, 2010, Uppsala, Sweden.
Ruifeng Xu, Jun Xu & Chunyu Kit. 2010. HITSZ_CITYU: Combine collocation, context words and neighboring sentence sentiment in sentiment adjectives disambiguation. In Proceedings of the 5th International Workshop on Semantic Evaluation, pp.448-451. July 15–16, 2010, Uppsala, Sweden.
Yan Song & Chunyu Kit. 2010. Does joint decoding really outperform cascade processing in English-to-Chinese transliteration generation? The role of syllabification. In Proceedings of 2010 International Conference on Machine Learning and Cybernetics (ICMLC 2010), pp.3323-3328. July 11-14, 2010, Qingdao, China.
Ruifeng Xu & Chunyu Kit. 2010b. Opinion retrieval based on mutual reinforcement between opinion analysis and relevance estimation. In Proceedings of 2010 International Conference on Machine Learning and Cybernetics (ICMLC 2010), pp.3347-3352. July 11-14, 2010, Qingdao, China.
Ruifeng Xu & Chunyu Kit. 2010a. Incorporating feature-based and similarity-based opinion mining – CTL in NTCIR-8 MOAT. In Proceedings of the 8th NTCIR Workshop Meeting (NTCIR-8), pp. 276-281. June 15–18, 2010, Tokyo.
Hai Zhao, Yan Song, Chunyu Kit. 2010. How large a corpus do we need: Statistical method versus rule-based method. In Proceedings of the Seventh conference on International Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC'10), pp. 1672-1677. May 19-21, 2010, Malta.
Ruifeng Xu & Chunyu Kit. 2009b. Incorporating multi-level features for sentiment analysis. In Proceedings of Second Chinese Opinion Analysis Evaluation Workshop (COAE2009), pp.74-82. Shanghai, November, 2009
Xiao Chen, Changning Huang, Mu Li & Chunyu Kit. 2009. Better parser combination. In Proceedings of CIPS-ParsEval-2009, pp.81-90. Beijing, Nov. 10, 2009.
Yan Song & Chunyu Kit. 2009. PCFG parsing with CRF tagging for head recognition. In Proceedings of CIPS-ParsEval-2009, pp.133-137. Beijing, Nov. 10, 2009.
Billy Wong & Chunyu Kit. 2009. ATEC: automatic evaluation of machine translation via word choice and word order. Machine Translation, 23(2):141-155. Springer. DOI: 10.1007/s10590-009-9061-x.
Yan Song, Chunyu Kit & Xiao Chen, 2009. Transliteration of name entity via improved statistical translation on character sequences. In Proceedings of the 2009 Named Entities Workshop: Shared Task on Transliteration (NEWS 2009), pp.57-60. Suntec, Singapore, 7 August, 2009.
Hai Zhao, Wenliang Chen & Chunyu Kit. 2009. Semantic dependency parsing of NomBank and PropBank: An efficient integrated approach via a large-scale feature selection. In EMNLP 2009: Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing, pp.30-39. Singapore, August 6-7, 2009.
Hai Zhao, Yan Song, Chunyu Kit & Guodong Zhou. 2009. Cross language dependency parsing using a bilingual lexicon. In ACL-IJCNLP 2009, pp.55-63. Singapore, 3-5 August, 2009.
Hai Zhao, Chunyu Kit, & Yan Song. 2009. Character dependency tree based lexical and syntactic all-in-one parsing for Chinese. In Maosong Sun & Qunxiu Chen (eds.), Advances in computational linguistics in China, the Proceedings of the 10th Chinese National Conference on Computational Linguistics (CNCCL-2009), pp. 82-88. Yantai, China, July 24-26, 2009. (in Chinese)
Xiaoyue Liu & Chunyu Kit. 2009. Statistical term-hood measurement for mono-word terms via corpus comparison. In 2009 International Conference on Machine Learning and Cybernetics (ICMLC 2009), Vol. 6, pp.2499-3504. Baoding, Hebei, China, July 12-15, 2009.
Ruifeng Xu & Chunyu Kit. 2009a. Coarse-fine strategy in opinion mining. In 2009 International Conference on Machine Learning and Cybernetics (ICMLC 2009), Vol. 6, pp.3469-3474. Baoding, Hebei, China, July 12-15, 2009.
Yan Song, Chunyu Kit, Ruifeng Xu & Hai Zhao. 2009. How unsupervised learning affects character tagging based Chinese word segmentation: A quantitative investigation. In 2009 International Conference on Machine Learning and Cybernetics (ICMLC 2009), Vol. 6, pp.3481-3486. Baoding, Hebei, China, July 12-15, 2009.
Hai Zhao, Wenliang Chen, Chunyu Kit, & Guodong Zhou. 2009. Multilingual dependency learning: A huge feature engineering method to semantic dependency parsing. In Proceedings of 13th Conference on Computational Natural Language Learning (CoNLL 2009): Shared task, pp. 55-60. Boulder, CO, USA, June 4-5, 2009
Chunyu Kit & Zhiwei Feng. 2009. Ontology-based definition of term. Terminology Standardization & Information Technology, 2009 Issue 02, pp.4-8 (part 1) , Issue 03 pp.14-23 (part 2). (in Chinese)
Hai Zhao & Chunyu Kit. 2009. A simple and efficient model pruning method for conditional random fields. In W. Li & D. Mollá-Aliod (Eds.): ICCPOL 2009, LNAI 5459, pp. 145–155, 2009. Springer. PDF (236.8 KB)
Xiaoyue Liu, Jonathan Webster, & Chunyu Kit. 2009. An Extractive Text Summarizer Based on Significant Words. In W. Li & D. Mollá-Aliod (Eds.): ICCPOL 2009, LNAI 5459, pp. 168–178, 2009. Springer. PDF (184.5 KB)
Billy T-M Wong & Chunyu Kit. 2009. Meta-evaluation of machine translation using parallel legal texts. In W. Li & D. Mollá-Aliod (Eds.): ICCPOL 2009, LNAI 5459, pp. 337–344, 2009. Springer. PDF (190.1 KB)
Chunyu Kit & Xiaoyue Liu. 2008. Measuring mono-word termhood by rank difference via corpus comparison. Terminology, 14(2):204-229. (December 2008) [AHCI/SSCI 0.474, Q3, 62/93 Linguistics]
Liu, Xiaoyue & Chunyu Kithunyu. 2008. An Improved Corpus Comparison Approach to Domain Specific Term Recognition. In PACLIC 22: Proceedings of the 22nd Pacific Asia Conference on Language, Information, & Computation, pp. 253-261. Cebu, Philippines, Nov. 20-22, 2008.
Billy T-M Wong & Chunyu Kit. 2008. Word choice & word position for automatic MT evaluation. In AMTA 2008 Workshop: MetricsMATR, Waikiki, Hawai'i, October 25, 2008. Also, see NIST Metrics for Machine Translation 2008 Evaluation (MetricsMATR08).
Hai Zhao & Chunyu Kit. 2008. Parsing syntactic & semantic dependencies with two single-stage maximum entropy models, in Proceedings of 12th Conference on Computational Natural Language Learning (CoNLL-2008), pp.203-207, Manchester, UK, August 16-17, 2008
Hai Zhao, & Chunyu Kit*. 2008. Scaling conditional random fields by one-against-the-other decomposition. Journal of Computer Science & Technology, 23(4):612-619 (July 2008). Springer. PDF (320.0 KB) [SCI 0.5760, Q4, 68/84 Computer Science, Software Engineering]
Guohong Fu, Chunyu Kit & Jonathan Webster. 2008. A morpheme-based lexical chunking system for Chinese. In Proceedings of the 7th International Conference on Machine Learning & Cybernetics (ICMLC 2008), pp 2455-2460, Kunming, China, 12-15 July 2008.
Guohong Fu, Chunyu Kit, & Jonathan J. Webster. 2008. Chinese word segmentation as morpheme-based lexical chunking. Information Sciences, 178(9):2282-2296. (1 May 2008) [SCI 3.095, Q1, 8/99 Computer Science, Information Systems]
Chunyu Kit & Tak Ming Wong. 2008. Comparative evaluation of online machine translation systems with legal texts. Law Library Journal, 100(2):299-321. (Spring 2008) [SSCI 0.296, Q4, 53/61 Information Science & Library Science]
Hai Zhao & Chunyu Kit. 2008. Exploiting unlabeled text with different unsupervised segmentation criteria for Chinese word segmentation. Research in Computing Science, Vol. 33, pp. 93-104. March 2008
Risong Na, Chunyu Kit, & Zhiwei Feng. 2008. Statistical analysis of legal terms in Hong Kong bilingual laws information system. Terminology Standardization & Information, 2008 Issue 02, pp.32-35. February 2008. (in Chinese)
Hai Zhao & Chunyu Kit. 2008. Unsupervised segmentation helps supervised learning of word segmentation & named entity recognition. In Proceedings of the Sixth SIGHAN Workshop on Chinese Language Processing (SIGHAN-6), pp.106-111. Hyderabad, India, 11-12 January 2008.
Hai Zhao & Chunyu Kit. 2008. An empirical comparison of goodness measures for unsupervised Chinese word segmentation with a unified framework. In Proceedings of the Third International Joint Conference on Natural Language Processing (IJCNLP-08), Vol. 1, pp.9-16. Hyderabad, India, 7-12 January, 2008.
Chunyu Kit, Hio Tong Chan, & Xiaoyue Liu. 2008. Encoding hierarchical bilingual texts of Hong Kong laws with XCES. In ICGL 2008: The First International Conference on Global Interoperability for Language Resources, pp.130-137. City University of HK.
Chunyu Kit & Jessica Y. H. Ng. 2007. An intelligent Web agent to mine bilingual parallel pages via automatic discovery of URL pairing patterns. In Proceedings of the 2007 IEEE/WIC/ACM International Conferences on Web Intelligence & Intelligent Agent Technology - Workshops: Workshop on Agents & Data Mining Interaction (ADMI-07), pp.526-529. Silicon Valley, California, November 2-5, 2007.
Hai Zhao & Chunyu Kit. 2007c. Incorporating global information into supervised learning for Chinese word segmentation. In Proceedings of the 2007 Conference of the Pacific Association for Computational Linguistics (PACLING 2007), pp.66-74, University of Melbourne, Australia, September 19-21, 2007
Hai Zhao & Chunyu Kit. 2007b. Scaling conditional random field with application to Chinese word segmentation. In Third International Conference on Natural Computation (ICNC'07), Vol. 5, pp.95-99. Haikou, China. Aug. 24-27, 2007.
Hai Zhao & Chunyu Kit. 2007a. Effective subsequence-based tagging for Chinese word segmentation (in Chinese). Journal of Chinese Information Processing, 21(5):8-13. Also in Maosong Sun & Qunxiu Chen (eds.), Frontiers of Content Computing: Research & Application, the Proceedings of the 9th Chinese National Conference on Computational Linguistics (CNCCL-2007, formerly JSCL-2007), pp. 45-51, Tsinghua University Press. Dalian, Aug. 6-8, 2007.
Chunyu Kit & Xiaoyue Liu. 2007. Mono-word termhood as rank difference in domain & background corpora. In International Conference: Keyness in Text, pp. 41-45. Pontignano, Siena, Italy, June 26-30 2007.
Chunyu Kit & Hai Zhao. 2007. Improving Chinese word segmentation with description length gain. In 2007 International Conference on Artificial Intelligence (ICAI'07), pp.846-851. Las Vegas, June 25-28, 2007.
Jing Li, Le Sun, Chunyu Kit & Jonathan Webster. 2007. A query-focused multi-document summarizer based on lexical chains. In DUC 2007, NIST, Rochester, NY, USA, 26-27 April 2007. http://www-nlpir.nist.gov/projects/duc/pubs.html.
Zhiming Xu, Chunyu Kit & Jonathan J. Webster. 2006. Integration algorithm of English-Chinese word segmentation & alignment. In Proceedings of the 2006 International Conference on Machine Learning & Cybernetics (ICMLC 2006), pp.5105-4110. Available from IEEE Xplore here.
Zhiming Xu, Qiang Wang, Jonathan J. Webster, Chunyu Kit. 2006. An empirical study of the effectiveness of n-gram modeling in probabilistic Chinese word segmentation. International Journal of Computer Science & Network Security (IJCSNS), 6(1):81-86. (Abstract)
Zhiming Xu, Jonathan J. Webster & Chunyu Kit. 2006. A new dictionary-based word alignment algorithm. Journal of Chinese Language & Computing, 16(4):225-238. (Word File)
Chunyu Kit, Xiaoyue Liu, & Jonathan J. Webster. 2006. Abbreviation recognition with Maxent model. In Alexander Gelbukh (ed.), Computational Linguistics & Intelligent Text Processing: CICLing 2006, LNCS Vol. 3878, pp.117-120. Springer. PDF (263.1 KB) [SCI expanded 0.402, Q4, 61/72 Computer Science, Theory & Method]
Chunyu Kit, & Xiaoyue Liu. 2005. An example-based Chinese word segmentation system for CWSB-2. In SIGHAN-4, pp. 146-149. 14-15 Oct., Jeju Island.
Chunyu Kit, Xiaoyue Liu, King Kui Sin, & Jonathan J. Webster. 2005. Harvesting the bitexts of the laws of Hong Kong from the Web. In the 5th Workshop on Asian Language Resources (ALR-05), pp.71-78. 14 Oct., Jeju Island.
Chunyu Kit, & Xiaoyue Liu. 2005. Period disambiguation with Maxent model. In R. Dale, K-F Wong, J. Su & O Y Kwong (eds.), Natural Language Processing - IJCNLP 2005, LNCS 3651, pp.223-232. Springer. PDF (327.4 KB) [SCI expanded 0.402, Q4, 1/72 Computer Science, Theory & Method]
Chunyu Kit. 2005. Unsupervised lexical learning as inductive inference via compression. In J. W. Minett & W. S.Y. Wang (eds.), Language Acquisition, Change & Emergence, pp. 251-296. CityU of HK Press.
Haodi Feng, Kang Chen, Chunyu Kit, & Xiaotie Deng. 2005. Unsupervised segmentation of Chinese corpus using accessor variety. In K. Y. Su, J. Tsujii, J. H. Lee & O. Y. Kwong (eds.), Natural Language Processing - IJCNLP 2004, LNCS 3248, pp. 694-703. Springer. PDF (195.3 KB) [SCI expanded 0.402, Q4, 61/72 Computer Science, Theory & Method]
Qinan Hu, Haihua Pan, & Chunyu Kit. 2005. An example-based study on Chinese word segmentation using critical fragments. In K. Y. Su, J. Tsujii, J. H. Lee & O. Y. Kwong (eds.), Natural Language Processing - IJCNLP 2004, LNCS 3248, pp.714-722. Springer. PDF (359.2 KB) [SCI expanded 0.402, Q4, 61/72 Computer Science, Theory & Method]
Chunyu Kit, Zhiming Xu, & Jonathan J. Webster. 2004. Integrating n-gram model & case-based learning for Chinese word segmentation. Journal of Chinese Language & Computing, 14(3):213-219.
Chunyu Kit, Jonathan J. Webster, King Kui Sin, Haihua Pan, & Heng Li. 2004. Clause alignment for bilingual HK legal texts: A lexical-based approach. International Journal of Corpus Linguistics, 9(1):29-51.
Heng Li, Jonathan J. Webster, Chunyu Kit, & Tianshun Yao. 2003. Transductive HMM based Chinese text chunking. In IEEE NLP-KE2003, pp.257-262. Beijing.
Zhiming Xu, Chunyu Kit, & Jonathan J. Webster. 2003. An adaptive training algorithm for probabilistic language model & its application to Chinese word segmentation (in Chinese). In Maosong Sun & Qunxiu Chen (eds.), Language Computing & Content-based Text Processing, pp. 73-78. JSCL2003, Harbin, 8-12 Aug., 2003.
Chunyu Kit, Jonathan J. Webster, King Kui Sin, Haihua Pan, & Heng Li. 2003. Clause alignment for bilingual HK legal texts with available lexical resources. In Maosong Sun, Tianshun Yao, & Chunfa Yuan (eds.), Advances in Computation of Oriental Languages: 20th ICCPOL Proceedings, pp.286-292. Shenyang, 4-6 Aug., 2003.
Chunyu Kit, Zhiming Xu, & Jonathan J. Webster. 2003. Integrating n-gram model & case-based learning for Chinese word segmentation. In Qing Ma & Fei Xia (ed.), SIGHAN-2, pp.160-163. Sapporo, 11 July, 2003. (ACL-2003)
Chunyu Kit. 2002. How does lexical acquisition begin? A cognitive perspective. Cognitive Science, 1(1):1-50. (.ps)
Chunyu Kit. 2002. Corpus tools for retrieving & deriving termhood evidence. In 5th East Asia Forum of Terminology, pp.69-80. Haikou, China. Dec. 6, 2002.
Chunyu Kit, Haihua Pan & Jonathan J. Webster. 2002. Example-based machine translation: A new paradigm. In S.W. Chan (ed.), Translation & Information Technology, pp.57-78. Chinese U. of HK Press.
Chunyu Kit, Haihua Pan & Hongbiao Chen. 2002. Learning case-based knowledge for disambiguating Chinese word segmentation: A preliminary study. In SIGHAN-1, pp. 33-39. 1 Sept., 2002. Taipei.
Chunyu Kit & Yorick Wilks. 1999. Unsupervised learning of word boundary with description length gain. In M. Osborne & E. T. K. Sang (eds.), CoNLL-99, pp.1-6. 12 June 12, Bergen, Norway.
Chunyu Kit 1998. Ba & bei as multi-valence prepositions in Chinese (.pdf). In Benjamin K. T'sou (ed.), Studia Linguistica Sinica, pp.497-522. Language Information Sciences Research Centre, City University of Hong Kong..
Chunyu Kit & Yorick Wilks. 1998. The Virtual Corpus approach to deriving n-gram statistics from large scale corpora.(.pdf) In C. N. Huang (ed.), Proceedings of 1998 International Conference on Chinese Information Processing Conference, pp.223-229. Nov. 18-20, Beijing.
Chunyu Kit. 1998. A goodness measure for phrase learning via compression with the MDL principle. In I. Kruijff-Korbayova(ed.), The ELLSSI-98 Student Session, Chapter 13, pp.175-187. Aug. 17-28, Saarbrueken.
Jonathan J. Webster & C. Kit. 1995. Computational analysis of Chinese & English texts with the functional semantic processor & the C-LFG parser. Literary & Linguistic Computing, 10(3):203-211. Oxford University Press.
Chunyu Kit 1994. Automatic terminology extraction for thematic corpus based on subterm co-occurrence. In ROCLING\/-94, July, 1994, Taipei.
Chunyu Kit & J. Webster. 1992. Parsing Chinese pivotal constructions in an LFG approach. In Proceedings of 1992 International Conference on Computer Processing of Chinese & Oriental Languages, Dec. 15-19, 1992, S& Key, Florida.
Chunyu Kit. 1992. Parsing Chinese ba & bei constructions: An LFG approach. In Proceedings of 3rd International Conference on Chinese Information Processing, October 12-16, 1992, Beijing.
Jonathan J. Webster & Chunyu Kit. 1992. Tokenization as the initial phase in NLP. In COLING-92, Vol. IV, pp.1106-1110, July, 1992, Nantes, France.
Chunyu Kit. 1991. Design & implementation of the applied system of Chinese automatic word segmentation - CASS. Journal of Chinese Information Processing, 5(4):27-34. (In Chinese)
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