Xing Hongbing

 Contact and Personal Information:

Professor of Linguistics

Institute on Educational Policy and Evaluation of International students,

Beijing Language and Culture University,

Xueyuan Road No. 15, Haidian District,

Beijing 100083, China

Email: xinghb@blcu.edu.cn

xinghongbing@hotmail.com

Office: Room 915, Building No.1

86-10- 8230-3761,

Education:

2002 Ph.D. in Psychology, Beijing Normal University, 1998.

1993 M.A. in Teaching Chinese as a Second Language, Beijing Language & Culture University.

1989 B.A. in Chinese Language and Literature, Fuyang Teachers’ College. 

Research and Teaching Experience

1993-2000, Lecturer of Linguistics, Language Information Processing Center, Beijing Language & Culture University.

2000-2002, Associate Professor of Linguistics, Language Information Processing Center, Beijing Language & Culture University.

2002-2008, Professor of Linguistics, The Center for Studies of Chinese as a Second Language (CSCSL), Beijing Language & Culture University.

2008-present, Professor of Linguistics, Chinese Proficiency Test Center (HSK), Beijing Language & Culture University. 

Reviewer (journals)

Acta Psychologica Sinica;

Chinese Teaching in the World;

Language Teaching and Linguistic Studies

Chinese Character Teaching and Studies 

Honors, Awards and fellowship

2009.7-2009.8, visiting professor, Department of English Language and Literature ,Hong Kong Baptist University.

2008 the Ministry of Education of “New Century Excellent Talents Support Program”.

2002, the paper A Self-Organizing Connectionist Model of Character Acquisition in Chinese” received an Award nominations by Marr Prize.

2001.5-2001.8, visiting fellow, Department of Psychology, University of Richmond.

2000.11-2001.4, Research Assistant, Department of Computing, Hong Kong Polytechnic University. 

Research Interests:

Language information processing;

language acquisition; cognitive science;

psycholinguistics;

bilingualism;

computational linguistics 

Computational Experience

1. Database of Chinese Characters, including about 20902 Chinese character with all information such as components, structure, stork order etc.

2. Corpus for Modern Chinese Research. With about two million word tokens.

   (3) The Database of Morpheme of HSK words. About 5,000 morpheme in the database.

   (4) The Database of grammar Points. About two hundred grammar points are tagged.

   (5) The Database of Lexicon Knowledge. Still under construction. 

   Standards Experience

   (1) Chinese Character Component Standard of GB 13000.1 Character Set for Information Processing. Language and Literature Press, 1998.

   (2) Standard for the Scheme of Chinese Phonetic Alphabet Input With Universal Keybord. Language and Literature Press, 2001.

   (3) Specification of Common Modern Chinese Character Components and Component Names Language and Literature Press, 2009. 

   Research Projects

   1991-1995, Electric Dictionary With Semantic Analysis, Source of funding: Ministry of Information Industry.

   1993-1995, Corpus for Modern Chinese Research, Source of funding: The Ministry of Education.

   1995-1996, Chinese Character Component Standard of GB13000.1 Character Set for Information Processing, Source of funding: State Language Commission.

   1994-1999, Theory, method and tools of corpus linguistics, Source of funding: National Natural Science Foundation of China.

   1997-1999, Corpus from Modern Chinese, collaborative research project with Hong Kong Polytechnic University.

   1998-2000, Cognitive Research on Chinese Characters and Words in Teaching Chinese as a Second Language, Source of funding: National Office of Teaching Chinese as a Second Language.

   1998-2001, Research on Modern Chinese Words for Information Processing, Source of funding: National Planning Office of Philosophy and Social Sciences.

   1999-2001, Dynamic Corpus from IT Field, Source of funding: Chinese Academy of Science .

   1999-2000, Chinese Component Name Standard of GB13000.1 Character Set for Information Processing, Source of funding: State Language Commission.

   2001-2003, Morphology, Syntax and Semantics ─An Experimental Study of the Chinese Language Processing, Source of funding: National Natural Science Foundation of China.

   2002-2004, Automatic Extraction and Formalization of terms from information technology Source of funding: The Ministry of Education.

   2003-2006 Grammar point tagged and retrieval system on Modern Chinese Corpus. Source of funding: Beijing Language and Culture University.

   2003-2005 The Role of Morpheme in the Foreign Students Chinese Compound Word Acquisition. Source of funding: National Office of Teaching Chinese as a Second Language

   2009-2011 Simulation Research on Chinese Lexicon Acquisition to Foreign Learners, Source of funding: Humanity and Social Sciences Key Research Base, The Ministry of Education. 

   Publications

   1. Books and Edited Volumes:

   Xing, H.B. (2005). Research on Chinese Words and Characters based on Statistics. Language and Literature Press.

   Xing, H.B. (2007). The Feature Analysis of Chinese Character and Computation Research.  Commercial Press.

   Zhang, W.X., Xing, H.B.(2010). Research on Chinese Testing, Acquisition and Cognition. Beijing Language and Culture University. (editor) 

   2 Articles and Presentations at Professional Meetings

    

Xing, H.B. (1992). Classification and Function of Grammatical Collocation: Activation Mechanism to polysemantic words. In Chen, Z.X.(ed.), Advances on the Research of Machine Translation. Beijing, China: Publishing House of Electronics Industry. 548-556.

Xing, H.B. (1994). A Semantic Analysis of a Chinese Sentence with a “VA” Structure. Journal of Zhejiang Normal University (Social Science). Vol.19, No.4, 52-57.

Sun, H.L., Sun, D.J., Huang J.P., Li, D.J. & Xing, H.B. (1996). Survey on Corpus for Modern Chinese Research. In Luo, Z.S. & Yuan, Y.L.(eds.), The Studies of Chinese Language and Characters in the Epoch of Computer. Beijing, China: Tsinghua University Press. 283-294

Xing, H.B., Zhang, P. & Cui Y.H. (1997). Chinese Character Component Disassembly and Standard of GB 13000. 1 Character Set. Proceedings of 2nd International Conference on Terminology, Standardization and Technology Transfer. Beijing, China: Encyclopedia of China Publishing House. 384-392.

Xing, H.B. (1997). Research on Modern Chinese Parenthesis. In Chen. L.W. & Yuan Q. (eds.) , Language Engineering. Beijing, China: Tsinghua University Press. 55-60.

Xing, H.B., Cui Y.H.,  Zhang, P. (1998). Suggestion on Chinese Components’ naming, China Computer World: Technical Special Reports. 15:D5-D6, Apr. 27.

Xing, H.B., Zhang, P. (1998). Statistical Results of Key Distribution of Basic Components’ Appellation by Pronunciation, Proceedings 1998 International Conference on Chinese Information Processing. Beijing, China: Tsinghua University Press. 63-69.

Xing, H.B. (1998). Statistical results and analysis of Basic Components in Chinese Characters and Words, Proceedings 1998 International Conference on Chinese Information Processing, Beijing, China: Tsinghua University Press. 56-62.

Xing, H.B. (1999). Statistics of the usage of the Part of Speech in Modern Chinese. Journal of Zhejiang Normal University(Social Science). Vol.24, No.3, 27-30.

Xing, H.B. (1999). Difficulties in Chinese Words Segmenting According to the Disagreement. In Chen, Z.X.(ed.), Proceedings of the International Conference on Machine Translation & Computer Language Information Processing. Beijing, China, 476-481.

Xing, H.B. (1999). Analysis on Words Hard to be Classified in POS tagging. In Huang. C.N. & Dong. Z.D.(eds.), Collected Papers on Computational Linguistics. Beijing, China: Tsinghua University Press. 187-192.

Xing, H.B. Shu,. H. (1999). Corpora Building and the Cognitive Research on Chinese Language. 3rd Symposium of Chinese psychologists. Beijing, China. Oct. 1999.

Xing, H.B. (2000). Statistic Analysis on Reduplication of Modern Chinese Words, Language Teaching and Linguistic studies, Vol. No.1, 2000.

Xing, H.B., Shu,. H., Meng. X.Z., Shang. Y. (2000). Investigation on Regularity Effect of Phonetic Parts in Phonogram. International Symposium on Chinese Language Teaching. Singapore City, Singapore. Jun. 26-28, 2000.

Xing, H.B. (2000). Dynamic Renewal of Terms in The Information Field Based on the Third-Generation Corpora, Applied Linguistics, Vol.34, No.2, 58-62.

Sun, M.S., Zhou Q., Sun, H.L., Huang, C.N., Zhang,, P., Xing,, H.B. (2000). Constructing a Word-segmented & POS-tagged Chinese Corpus and a Chinese Tree Bank, Proceedings of 2000 International Conference on Chinese Language Computing (ICCLC’00), 239-243. July 8-9, 2000.

Xing, H.B. (2000). Structural Features and Distributions of Chinese-English Terms in the Corpus from Information Field. Proceedings of 2000 International Conference on Multilingual Information Processin. Urumqi, China, 7-12.

Xing, H.B. (2000). Structural Features and Distributions of Chinese-English Terms in the Corpus on Information Field. Terminology Standardization & Information Technology, Vol.19, No.3, 17-21.

Yuan C.F., Li C., Cui Y.H., Xing, H.B. (2001). Study of Chinese word formation based on genetic algorithm. Journal of Tsinghua University (Science and Technology).

Xing, H.B., Shu, H., Li, P. (2002).A self-organizing connectionist model of character acquisition in Chinese. In Proceedings of the Twenty-fourth Annual Conference of the Cognitive Science Society . Mahwah, NJ: Lawrence Erlbaum.

Lu Q., Li, Y., Xing, H.B., Li, N.L. and Chan S.T.（2002），The Hong Kong Glyph Specifications for ISO 10646's Ideographic Characters，Twenty-first International Unicode Conference, Dublin, Ireland, 14-17 May 2002.

Zhang, Y.X., Shu, H., Zhou X.L., Xing, H.B.(2003).The Relative Strength of Phonological Activation between Complex Characters and Their Phonetic Radicals in Reading Chinese. Acta Scientiarum Naturalium Universitatis Pekinensis

Xing, H.B. (2003). The Regularity Effect of phonogram in Learning Chinese as a Second Language. in An Interdisciplinary Exploration on Teaching Chinese as a second Langugae. Beijing Language and Culture University Press.

Xing, H.B. (2003). A investigation of the ability of Modern Chinese Verbs with Objects. in Sun, M.S. & Chen Q.X. (Eds.) Language computing and content-based text processing. Tsinghua University Press.

Xing, H.B. (2003). An analysis of the error compound words used by foreign learners of Chinese. Chinese Teaching in the World. p67-78.

Xing, H.B. (2004). Construction of the Morpheme Database from the HSK Vocabulary. In Zhang, P. Xie, T.W. Xu, J. (Eds)  The Studies on the Theory and Methodology of the Digitalized Chinese Teaching to Foreigners. Tsinghua University Press.

Xing, H.B., Shu, H. (2004). Phonetic features of the Phonogram in the HSK Graded Character List. Zhao,J.M. (Ed.) Spoken and written language teaching. Peking University Press.

Xing, H., Shu., H., & Li, P. (2004). The acquisition of Chinese characters: Corpus analyses and connectionist simulations. Journal of Cognitive Science Vol.5 No.1 p1-49.

Xing, H.B. (2005). Character Analysis of Information Technology Terms. Terminology Standardization & Information Technology.Vol.1 P41-44。

Xing, H.B. (2005). A dictionary of Chinese verb usage with frequency. Proceedings: First International Workshop on Pedagogical Lexicography of CFL., Hong Kong City University Press.

Xing, H.B. (2005). A statistic analysis of components of the character entries in the HSK Graded Character List. Chinese Teaching in the World. Vol.2 p49-55.

Xing, H.B. Zhang, W.X. (2005). A statistical research on Modern Chinese Grammar points，Zhao., J.M. (Ed.) Explore the full range of Teaching Chinese as a second Language. Commercial Press.

Li, P., Xing, H.B. (2006). Diease But No Sheep, Science Vol 311, 31 Marth 2006.

Xing, H.B., Zhang, W.J., Jiang S.P.（2006），Statistical Studies on Words’ Syntactic Properties in TCSL: Illustrated by Verbs and Adjectives. Language Teaching and Linguistic studies, Vol. No.3, p61-69.

Xing., H.B. (2006). A Basic framework of Practical Dictionary of Modern Chinese Grammar points Based on Tagged Corpus. Second International Workshop on Pedagogical Lexicography of CFL. Beijing.

Xing, H.B.（2006） A statistic analysis on morphemes from the disyllabic words in Graded Vocabulary for HSK. Chinese Teaching in the World. Vol.3 p49-55.

Xing, H.B.（2006） Statistic analysis on Chinese Characters used in Teaching Chinese as a Second Language，In Zhang., P., Xie., T.W. (Eds.) Research and application of Digitized Chinese Teaching and Learning. Language and Literature Press.

Zhang., J.Z., Xing, H.B.（2007）. Vocabulary acquisition methods and Vocabulary teaching as a second Language. Chinese Lexical Semantics Workshop 2007. Hong Kong, China.

Xing, H.B., Shu, H., Li, P. (2007). A self-organizing model of vocabulary acquisition by elementary school children. Contemporary Linguistics Vol. 3, p193-207。

Nan., X.M., Li., F.F., Xing., H.B., (2008). A Survey on Using Dictionaries by Chinese learners，In Zheng., D.O. (Ed) Proceedings:Third International Workshop on Pedagogical Lexicography of CFL. China Social Science Press.

Cai., B.G., Xing., H.B. (2008). On Corpus-based Usage Research of Vocabulary and Vocabulary-teaching. In Zhang., P., Xu., J., Gan., R. Y.(Eds) Advancements and Insights of. Digitized Chinese Teaching and Learning. Tsinghua University Press.

Gong., Y.T., Xing., H.B. (2008). Corpus and its Application in Grammar-teaching. In Zhang., P., Xu., J., Gan., R. Y.(Eds) Advancements and Insights of. Digitized Chinese Teaching and Learning. Tsinghua University Press.

Zhang., J.Z., Xing., H.B. (2008). The distribution of syllables in primary school textbooks. In Zhang., P., Xu., J., Gan., R. Y.(Eds) Advancements and Insights of. Digitized Chinese Teaching and Learning. Tsinghua University Press.

Xing, H.B., Shu, H. (2008). A Statistical Study on the Basic Components of Chinese Characters in Chinese Textbooks for Primary Schools. Applied Linguistics. Vol. 3, p72-80.

Hao, Y.X., Xing, H.B.(2009). Methods of Synonyms Disambiguation Based on Corpus and Database. The Tenth Chinese Lexical Semantics Workshop. Yantai, Shandong.

Xing, H.B., Zhang, P. (2009). An Introduction on Specification of Common Modern Chinese Character Components and Component Names. Primary School Chinese Vol. 7-8.

Xing, H.B. (2009). Contrastive Analysis of Modern Chinese Vocabulary and Interlanguage vocabulary. Research on Teaching Chinese as a Second Language, Vol.5 p57-65.

Xing, H.B. (2009). A Connectionist Research Framework of Second Language Vocabulary Acquisition. Language Teaching and Linguistic studies, No.2, p10-16.

Xing, H.B. (2010). A Connectionist Research Framework of Second Language Vocabulary Acquisition. Linguistics and Philology, Vol. 1, p81-87.

Wang J., Xing, H.B.(2010). The Investigation of Overseas Students’ Acquisition of Monosyllabic Polysemous Morphemes. Language Teaching and Linguistic studies, No.2, p10-16.

Xing, H.B.(2012). A Corpus-based Approach to Second Language Lexical Acquisition. Chinese Language Learning. Vol. 02, p77-85.

Xing, H.B.(2013). Corpus-based Lexical Knowledge Extraction and Foreign learner Oriented Dictionary Compilation . Lexicographical Studies. Vol. 03, p36-41+94.

Xing, H.B., Xin, X.(2013). Corpus-based Lexical Knowledge Extraction and Foreign learner Oriented Dictionary Compilation . TCSOL Studies. Vol. 02, p64-72.

Xing, H.B.(2013). Collocation Knowledge and Second Language Lexical Acquisition. Applied Linguistics. Vol. 04, p117-126.

Li, SH.W., Xing, H.B., Shu, H.(2016). Research on Grade Norm to Writing Abilities of Chinese Students. Applied Linguistics. Vol. 03, p50-60.

Xing, H.B., Li, SH.W., Li, M.X., Wu, P., Shi, G.F., Shu, H. (2013). Research on Components and Development of Students' Native Language Competence . Chinese Journal of Language Policy and Planning. Vol. 05, p28-36.

Li, M.X., Daniel S.Worlton, Xing, H.B. (2018). Orthographic Activation Mechanisms of Spoken Words in the Mental Lexicon of Native Chinese Speakers . Psychological Exploration. Vol. 01, p65-72.