Canzhong Wu

Ph.D. (2000), in Linguistics Department, Macquarie University, Sydney, Australia.
MA (1992), in linguistics and applied linguistics, Department of Foreign Languages, Xian Jiaotong University, Xian, China.
BA (1989), in English for science and technology, Department of Foreign Languages, Xian Jiaotong University, Xian, China.

Lecturer (2003- ). Department of Linguistics, Macquarie University.
Research Officer (2000-2002). Department of Linguistics, Macquarie University.
Research assistant (1995 - 2000). Department of Linguistics, Macquarie University. Modelling of the resources for multilingual and multimodal generation. Development of computerised reference grammar. Development of tools for corpus analysis.
Lecturer (1993-1995). Department of Foreign Languages, Xian Jiaotong University. Designing and teaching courses in computational linguistics, general linguistics, programming languages, multilingual word processing, translation theory and practice, and translation theory and techniques.
Director (1992-1995). Translation Service Department, the Messenger Language Engineering Company of Xian Jiaotong University. Translating technical papers, contracts, books and so on, interpreting for the meetings and talks, as well as organising the translation activities. The languages include English, Chinese, Russian, German and French.
Assistant Lecturer (1992-1993). Department of Foreign Languages, Xian Jiaotong University. Teaching English, computer applications, translation theory and techniques.
Research linguist (1989-1992). Xian Jiaotong University & Xinhua News Agency in Beijing. Developing computational systems such as "FORNATRA".

Areas of research interest

Systemic functional theory in general, and its application in discourse interpretation.
Translation theory and practice.
Multilingual and multimodal presentation generation.
Development of support tools for multilingual grammatical reference resources.
Machine translation and CAI.
Development of theoretical and computational models of systems.
Corpus linguistics

Research projects

1996-1997. DSTO's project on multimodal generation of communicable diseases. Developing tools for corpus analysis in SuperTalk: Japanese Concordance is used in the University of New South Wales, and English Concordance in Macquarie University for the project as well as ARC project on multilingual and multimodal generation.
1995 - 1997. Australian Research Council project on multilingual and multimodal generation. Developing "Text Analyser" in SuperTalk for the corpus analysis. Writing programs in Lisp and Java for text generation.
1993-1995 Messenger Language Company project on human resources retrieval system, which was implemented in PROLOG and dBase III.
1991-1993 Xian Jiaotong University & Xinhua News Agency project on automatic name translation system, which has since been used Xinhua News Agency in Beijing. My work includes developing and implementing the system in PROLOG.

Department of :Linguistics, C5A 550
Macquarie University,
North Ryde, 2109, Australia

Tel: 61-2-9850 8764
Fax: 61-2-9850 9199
Email: cwu@ling.mq.edu.au