Achievements in Digital Humanities

The Department of Literature and Cultural Studies, the Education University of Hong Kong (EdUHK) has developed a mobile application named “MyTopoHK”. The application is the first interactive application for reading and writing literary works on Hong Kong’s landscape. The application aims to promote reading and creative writing in Hong Kong.

Like other universities around the world, FHM has begun offering an important course in Digital Humanities to many of its undergraduate students. The FHM course is innovative because it is a collaboratively taught by members of LCS, a literature department, and LML, a linguistics department.

Xi Xi City is a fully bilingual digital humanities introduction to Hong Kong’s best-loved writer, and it is part of the online presentation of One City One Book Hong Kong, a community reading initiative hosted by LCS.

"e-Orch" is an intelligent ensemble learning platform that includes an app, "e-Orch", and a cloud-based software, "THE GRID". The invention lowers the hurdles to learning, performing and composing music by including the patented Grid Notation, 28 touch Western and Chinese instruments, three unique instrument interfaces, and gamification music playing.

Inspired by Vienna-Oxford International Corpus of English (VOICE), a project team led by Prof Andy Kirkpatrick from Griffith University, Australia and Prof WANG Lixun from The Education University of Hong Kong developed the Asian Corpus of English (ACE) in 2014. The project team consisted of sub-teams from 10 countries/regions across Asia such as China, Japan, Philippines, Malaysia, and Brunei, and the ACE data were collected over a period of six years from these 10 different locations.

In 2011, Dr Andy Chin of the Department of Linguistics and Modern Languages Studies ​​of the Education University of Hong Kong developed the first phase of The Linguistic Corpus of Mid-20th Century Hong Kong Cantonese. It is based on 21 Cantonese films produced in Hong Kong in the 1950s. The dialogues in the films were transcribed into Chinese characters. The corpus has about 200,000 words, and users could search for the corpus data online.

This database was officially launched in 2020 by Dr. Shin Kataoka of the Department of Linguistics and Modern Language Studies, The Education University of Hong Kong, and project members Lili Ou, Chinglaam Tang, and Kapo Chow.

The English Speech Corpus with Different Proficiency Levels was officially launched in March 2021 by Dr Rebecca Chen from the Department of Linguistics and Modern Language Studies ​​of the Education University of Hong Kong. The English Speech Corpus with Different Proficiency Levels aims to provide learners, teachers and researchers with high-quality authentic recordings from practice tests and detailed annotations of linguistic features of English learners. With the help of the data, English learners can identify difficulties in English speaking learning.

The trend towards e-learning and integrated teaching has been growing in recent years, and CLE is committed to keeping pace with these developments. We have been actively producing multimedia teaching videos that cover a wide range of topics related to Chinese and Cantonese knowledge. The aim is to present this information in a way that is engaging and easy to understand, thereby attracting students and members of the public to watch and learn.