Siyuan Liu

Education

• November 2022: enrolled in the PhD programme in Translation, Interpreting and Intercultural Studies (38th cycle), Alma Mater Studiorum – University of Bologna, Department of Interpreting and Translation.
• June 2022: Master's Degree in Linguistics and Applied Linguistics, Central China Normal University(华中师范大学). Thesis: Sentiment Classification of Online Comment Texts in Beauty Makeup Based on Sentiment Dictionary.
• June 2019: Bachelor's Degree in Chinese Language and Literature, Central South University(中南大学).
  

Scholarships

• 2017-2018: Central South University Third Class Academic Year Scholarship.
• 2019-2020: Postgraduate Third Class Academic Scholarship of Central China Normal University.
• 2020-2021: Postgraduate Second Class Academic Scholarship of Central China Normal University.
• 2021-2022: Postgraduate First Class Academic Scholarship of Central China Normal University.
• 2022-2025: China Scholarship Council(CSC) National Construction High-level Public Postgraduate Scholarship.
• 2023-2024: Borsa MAECI - Scholarships offered by the Italian Government to foreign students and Italians residing abroad (IRE).

Conference Presentation

• “The Construction of Multimodal Interlanguage Corpus for Teaching Chinese as a Foreign Language”(面向对外汉语教学的多模态中介语语料库建设路径探析). National Forum on Applied Semiotics and Multimodal Research (全国应用符号学与多模态研究论坛), organized by the Professional Semiotics Committee of the Chinese Logic Society. October 15-17, 2021, Tongji University, China.
• “Investigation on Semantic Prosody of the Cyber New Word ‘Dagongren’”(网络新词“打工人”的语义韵研究). The Sixth Applied Linguistics Forum of Guangzhou University of Foreign Studies(第六届广外应用语言学论坛), co-organized by Guangdong University of Foreign Studies, Gui Shichun Institute for Advanced Language Studies and Bilingual Cognition and Development Laboratory. December 3-5, 2021, Guangdong University of Foreign Studies, China.
• "Construction of Multimodal Corpus for Linguistic Emergency Response in Public Emergencies"（面向突发公共事件语言应急多模态语料库构建).The 3rd Academic Symposium on Informatization and Linguistic Intelligence and the 2021 Shanghai Chinese Academic Annual Conference Language Society(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), co-organized by Fudan University, Shanghai Chinese Society.20-21 November, 2021, Fudan University, China.
• “Building a Multimodal Interlanguage Corpus for International Chinese Language Education: Attempts and Explorations.” 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 Language and Culture University, China.
• "Methodological Challenges in Multimodal Interlanguage Corpus Construction: a Pilot Study with L1 Italian and L2 Chinese". CLUB Day, organized by the Linguistic Club of the University of Bologna. July 29, 2023, University of Bologna, Italy.
• "Methodological Challenges in Longitudinal Multimodal Learner Corpus Construction: An Ongoing Study with L1 Italian and L2 Chinese". 21st STaPs (SprachwissenschaftlicheTagung für Promotionsstudierende – ‘Linguistics Conference for Ph.D. students’), organized by Pázmány Péter Catholic University. 28 February - 1 March, 2024, participated online.

Memberships

• 2023-2024: Universality, diversity and idiosyncrasy in language technology (UniDive)
• 2023-2024: European Association for Chinese Linguistics(EACL)
• 2023-2024: Chinese as a Second Language Research Association(CASLAR)

Professional Experience

• 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).
• February 2020 - March 2020: PARSEME Shared Tasks 2020 - Research project participant - Corpus Research Institute, Shanghai International Studies University.
• November 2020 - May 2021: Shanghai Cultural Trade Language Service Base - Corpus construction specialist(Intern).
• February 2021 - June 2021: Bytedance Inc. - Linguistic Engineer at the Department of Intelligent Voice, AI-Lab(Intern).