The Knowledge Base of Language Teacher Education
Social, Cultural, and Political Contexts of Language Teacher Education
Collaborations in Language Teacher Education
Practices of Language Teacher Education
The transformative nature of the role of language and communication in human cognition
The analysis of language and language use as providing a window into non-linguistic cognitive
processes and structures
The relationship between linguistic structure and cognitive processes
Input and output of large character sets of Asian languages
Typesetting and font designs of Asian languages
Asian character encoding and compression
Multimodal representations and processing
Voice input and output
Phonology and morphology
Lexical semantics and word sense
Grammars, syntax, semantics and discourse
Word segmentation, chunking, tagging and syntactic parsing
Word sense disambiguation, semantic role labeling and semantic parsing
Discourse analysis
Language, linguistic and speech resource development
Evaluation methods and user studies
Machine learning for natural language
Text analysis, understanding, summarization and generation
Text mining and information extraction, summarization and retrieval
Text entailment and paraphrasing
Text Sentiment analysis, opinion mining and question answering
Machine translation and multilingual processing
Linguistic, psychological and mathematical models of language, computational psycholinguistics,
computational linguistics and mathematical linguistics
Language modeling, statistical methods in natural language processing and speech processing
Spoken language processing, understanding, generation and translation
Rich transcription and spoken information retrieval
Speech recognition and synthesis
Natural language applications, tools and resources, system evaluation
Asian language learning, teaching and computer-aided language learning
NLP in vertical domains, such as biomedical, chemical and legal text
NLP on noisy unstructured text, such as email, blogs, and SMS
Language Change and Variation
Role of English and Asian languages in globalised contexts
New Varieties of English
English for Specific Purposes (ESP)
Language, Identity and Culture
Language and Literature
Language and Popular Culture
Literature and Film
Language and Power
Language and Gender
Language and the New Media
Language, Culture and Translation
New Writings in English
Women’s Writings
Teaching of Language and Literature
Teaching and Learning of English as a Foreign/ Second Language
Effective Teaching Methodologies in Language and Literature Classrooms
Interdisciplinarity in Language Teaching and Learning
Assessment Practices to Language and Literature Teaching
Teaching Translation
Language and ICT
Theoretical research on forensic linguistics
Legal discourse analysis
Legal translation and courtroom interpreting
The application of forensic linguistics
Research on legal language teaching
Construction of corpus for forensic purposes
Special hardware and software for Asian language computing