Siyuan Liu

Education

• November 2022 – Present：Ph.D. candidate in Translation, Interpreting and Intercultural Studies (38th cycle), Alma Mater Studiorum – University of Bologna, Department of Interpreting and Translation.
• March 2025 – June 2025：Visiting Ph.D. researcher at the University of Ljubljana, Slovenia.
• September 2019 – June 2022：MA in Linguistics and Applied Linguistics, Central China Normal University (华中师范大学), China. Thesis: Sentiment Classification of Online Comment Texts in Beauty Makeup Based on Sentiment Dictionary.
•  September 2015 – June 2019：BA in Chinese Language and Literature, Central South University (中南大学), China.

Scholarships

• 2024–2025: MAECI Scholarship – Offered by the Italian Ministry of Foreign Affairs to foreign and IRE students.
• 2023–2024: MAECI Scholarship – Offered by the Italian Ministry of Foreign Affairs to foreign and IRE students.
• 2021–2022: First-class graduate scholarship, Central China Normal University.
• 2020–2021: Second-class graduate scholarship, Central China Normal University.
• 2019–2020: Third-class graduate scholarship, Central China Normal University.
• 2017–2018: Third-class academic scholarship, Central South University.

Conference Presentation

• “Construction, Transcription and Annotation of a Longitudinal Multimodal Interlanguage Corpus: An Ongoing Study with L1 Italian and L2 Chinese”. Poster presentation at the 7th Learner Corpus Research Conference, organized by the University of Tartu. September 26–28, 2024, Tartu, Estonia.
• “Construction of a Longitudinal Multimodal Interlanguage Corpus: An Ongoing Study with L1 Italian and L2 Chinese”. Oral presentation at the 12th International Conference of the European Association of Chinese Linguistics (EACL-12), organized by Roma Tre University. September 19–20, 2024, Rome, Italy.
• “Semantic Prosody Evolution of the Word ‘[feminism/feminist]’ in Chinese Social Media”. Oral presentation at the 7th Corpora and Discourse International Conference, organized by the University of Innsbruck. July 17–19, 2024, Innsbruck, Austria.
• “Design, Construction and Data Processing of a Longitudinal Multimodal Interlanguage Corpus: An Ongoing Study with L1 Italian and L2 Chinese”. Oral presentation at the 33rd EuroSLA (European Second Language Association Conference), organized by Université Paul Valéry Montpellier 3. July 3–6, 2024, Montpellier, France.
• “Construction and Application of a Multimodal Interlanguage Corpus for Teaching Chinese as a Foreign Language”. Oral presentation at Summer School 2024 Digital Humanities and Digital Communication: Challenges and Opportunities of Interacting with and through Technology, organized by the Ph.D. Program in Human Sciences, University of Modena and Reggio Emilia. June 3–7, 2024.
• “Methodological Challenges in Longitudinal Multimodal Learner Corpus Construction: An Ongoing Study with L1 Italian and L2 Chinese”. Oral presentation at the 21st STaPs (Sprachwissenschaftliche Tagung für Promotionsstudierende), organized by Pázmány Péter Catholic University. February 28 – March 1, 2024, online participation.
• “Methodological Challenges in Multimodal Interlanguage Corpus Construction: A Pilot Study with L1 Italian and L2 Chinese”. Oral presentation at CLUB Day, organized by the Linguistics Circle of the University of Bologna. July 29, 2023, University of Bologna, Italy.
• “Building a Multimodal Interlanguage Corpus for International Chinese Language Education: Attempts and Explorations”. Oral presentation at the 19th International Conference on Chinese Language Pedagogy (ICCSL-19), co-organized by Beijing Language and Culture University and Massey University. July 7–10, 2023, Beijing, China.
• “网络新词“打工人”的语义韵研究”(Investigation on Semantic Prosody of the Cyber New Word ‘Dagongren’). Oral presentation at the 第六届广外应用语言学论坛(6th Forum on Applied Linguistics, organized by Guangdong University of Foreign Studies), Gui Shichun Institute for Advanced Linguistic Studies, and the Bilingual Cognition and Development Laboratory. December 3–5, 2021, Guangzhou, China.
• “面向突发公共事件语言应急多模态语料库构建”(Construction of Multimodal Corpus for Linguistic Emergency Response in Public Emergencies). Oral presentation at 第三届语言信息化与智能化学术研讨会暨上海市语文学会2021年学术年会(the 3rd Symposium on Linguistic Informatization and Intelligence and the 2021 Annual Conference of the Shanghai Chinese Language Society), co-organized by Fudan University and the Shanghai Chinese Language Society. November 20–21, 2021, Shanghai, China.
• “面向对外汉语教学的多模态中介语语料库建设路径探析”(The Construction of Multimodal Interlanguage Corpus for Teaching Chinese as a Foreign Language). Oral presentation at the 全国应用符号学与多模态研究论坛 (National Forum on Applied Semiotics and Multimodal Research), organized by the Professional Committee of Semiotics of the Chinese Logic Society. October 15–17, 2021, Tongji University, China.

Memberships

• Universality, diversity and idiosyncrasy in language technology (UniDive)
• European Association for Chinese Linguistics(EACL)
• Chinese as a Second Language Research Association(CASLAR)
• Corpora, Linguistics, Technology(CoLiTec)

Professional Experience

• February 2021 - June 2021: Bytedance Inc. - Linguistic Engineer at the Department of Intelligent Voice, AI-Lab(Intern).
• November 2020 - May 2021: Shanghai Cultural Trade Language Service Base - Corpus construction specialist(Intern).
  February 2020 - March 2020: PARSEME Shared Tasks 2020 - Research project participant - Corpus Research Institute, Shanghai International Studies University.
• November 2019 - April 2020: Intelligent Assistive Chinese Writing Research Institute (TYZ19005) - Research project participant - The Beijing Advanced Innovation Center for Language Resources (ACLR).
• January 2019 - April 2019: Ctrip Inc. - Data Engineer at the AI Research and Development Department(Intern).