Chu-Ren Huang is Chair Professor at The Hong Kong Polytechnic University, a Fellow of the Hong Kong Academy of the Humanities; and a permanent member of the International Committee on Computational Linguistics. He led the construction of language resources such as CKIP Lexicon, Sinica Corpus, Sinica Treebank, Sinica BOW, Chinese WordNet, and Hantology. His upcoming books include Computational Processing of the Chinese Language, Digital Humanities: Bridging the Divide, and Cambridge Handbook of Chinese Linguistics. Zhuo Jing-Schmidt is Associate Professor at the University of Oregon. She is a broadly trained linguist who researches the interface of language structure, discourse pragmatics, emotion in language, gender and society, and Chinese second language acquisition. Her work transcends traditional disciplinary boundaries and she publishes in three languages - English, Chinese, and German. She is Executive Editor of Chinese Language and Discourse and is on the editorial board of Chinese as a Second Language. Barbara Meisterernst studied Sinology, Germanic Languages and General Linguistics at Münster University, where she received her PhD. She holds a habilitation (second PhD) from Hamburg University. She researched and taught in Paris, Ghent, Berlin and Hamburg. Presently she teaches Historical Chinese Linguistics at National Tsing Hua University, Taiwan.
