Lecture and Roundtable on Corpus Construction for Special Populations

Venue: Lecture Hall 518, Huiwen Building, Siping Road Campus, Tongji University, Shanghai, China

Date: Thursday, May 29, 2025

Time: 14:00-17:00

Organizer: Research Center for Ageing, Language and Care, Tongji University

Featured Guest

l Prof. Brian MacWhinney (Teresa Heinz Professor of Cognitive Psychology, Carnegie Mellon University)

Invited Guests

l Prof. DING Hongwei (Professor in Linguistics and Phonetics, Shanghai Jiao Tong University)

l Ms. QIAN Qian (Head of Speech-Language Pathology Department, Shanghai Yangzhi Rehabilitation Hospital)

Moderator

Prof. HUANG Lihe (Research Center for Ageing, Language and Care, Tongji University)

Schedule

Organized by

Ø Research Center for Ageing, Language and Care, Tongji University

Ø School of Foreign Studies, Tongji University

Contact

Ø Dr. (Theo) YIH Tsy, a.k.a. YE ZI (yihtsy@outlook.com)

Professor Brian MacWhinney is Teresa Heinz Professor of Cognitive Psychology at Carnegie Mellon University. He has created TalkBank, an open-access repository for language studies across 14 topics, 40 languages, and thousands of speakers. Three unique features of TalkBank include a standardized transcription format for all corpora, advanced NLP/ASR/ML/AI methods for data analysis, and web-based tools for viewing and annotation. He also developed the Competition Model, an emergentist approach to first and second language learning that explains the formation of language structure over time and through human learning.