Wang Shichang, Ph.D.

Assistant Researcher
Mailing address: School of Literature, Shandong University, 27 Shanda South Road, Jinan City, Shandong Province
Zip code: 250100
Email address: wangshichang@sdu.edu.cn

Educational background:
July 2007, BA, Chinese Language and Literature, Shandong University, Jinan, Shandong Province
July 2011, MA, Chinese Language and Linguistics, Shandong University, Jinan, Shandong Province
July 2016,  Ph.D., Linguistics, Hong Kong Polytechnic University, Hong Kong

Work experience:
September 2016 - present: Assistant Researcher, School of Literature, Shandong University, Jinan
November 2016 - present: Postdoctoral fellow, Postdoctoral Research Station of Chinese Language and Literature, School of Literature, Shandong University, Jinan

Research interests:
Lexicon-centered linguistic resources, linguistic measurement and language computing

Research projects undertaken:

· “An Atlas of Shandong Dialects”, (Project No.: IFYT1702) - sub-project “An Atlas of the Vocabulary/Glossary of Shandong Dialects”, (Project No.: IFYT17005), a research project undertaken by the Shandong University Youth Team, project leader, project established/approved April 2017

· “A Quantitative Comparative Study of Vocabularies of Shandong Dialects”, (Project No.: 17DYYJ06), a Shandong Province Social Sciences Planning Project,project leader, project established/approved October 2017

· “A Quantitative Comparative Study of Vocabularies of Dialects in Northern China”, a Shandong University School of Literature Development Project,project leader, project established/approvedAugust 2018.

Coursestaught:
Modern Chinese Language
Guided Readings for “General Linguistics”

Academic output:

A. Thesis and Dissertation

· A Study of Transitive Disyllabic Compounds in Modern Chinese, MA Thesis, Shandong University, 2011

· Crowdsourcing Method in Empirical Linguistic Research: Chinese Studies Using Mechanical Turk-Based Experimentation, Ph.D. Dissertation, Hong Kong Polytechnic University, 2016

B. Papers and articles published and/or presented:

· Shichang Wang, Chu-Ren Huang, Yao Yao, Angel Chan. (2019) “The effect of morphological structure on semantic transparency ratings”, Language and Linguistics, pp.225-255, 20(2), 2019

· Yang Zhenlan, Wang Shichang. (2018) “An Exploration of the Critical Commentary [lunzan] Segments in Zuozhuan and Their ‘Praise or Blame’ Functions of Criticism”,Wen-Shi-Zhe (A Journal of Literature, History and Philosophy), (2): pp.97-104, 2018

· Shichang Wang, Chu-Ren Huang, Yao Yao, Angel Chan. (2017) “Word Intuition Agreement among Chinese Speakers: A Mechanical Turk-Based Study”, Lingua Sinica, 3:13, 2017

· Huang Juren, Wang Shichang. (2016) “The Application of Crowdsourcing Strategy in the Construction of Language Resources”, Language Strategy Research, (6): pp.36-46, 2016

· Chu-Ren Huang, Shichang Wang, Yao Yao, Angel Chan. “Crowdsourcing, Word Segmentation, and Semantic Transparency: A new empirical approach to Chinese linguistics”, in Proceedings of the 15th International Symposium on Chinese Languages and Linguistics, (IsCLL-15), National Hsinchu University of Education, Hsinchu, Taiwan, May 2016. Keynote Speech

· Shi Chang Wang, Chu-Ren Huang, Yao Yao,Angel Chan. “Mechanical Turk-based experiment vs laboratory-based experiment: A case study on the comparison of semantic transparency rating data”,in Proceedings of the 29th Pacific Asia Conference on Language, Information And Computation, (PACLIC-29), pp. 53–62, Shanghai, China, October 2015

· Shichang Wang, Chu-Ren Huang, Yao Yao, Angel Chan. “Create a manual Chinese word segmentation dataset using crowdsourcing method”,in Proceedings of the Eighth SIGHAN Workshop on Chinese Language Processing, (SIGHAN-8 at ACL-2015), pp. 7– 14, Association for Computational Linguistics,Beijing, China, July 2015

· Liu Ming, Wang Shichang. (2015) “A Study of Corpus-Assisted Automobile Advertising Discourse and Social Changes”,Academic Journal of Xian International Studies University, 23(1): pp.55–58, 2015

· Shichang Wang, Chu-Ren Huang, Yao Yao, Angel Chan. “Building a semantic transparency dataset of Chinese nominal compounds: A practice of crowdsourcing methodology”,in Proceedings of Workshop on Lexical and Grammatical Resources for Language Processing, (LG-LP 2014 at COLING -2014), pp. 147–156, Association for Computational Linguistics and Dublin City University,Dublin, Ireland, August 2014

· Shichang Wang, Chu-Ren Huang, Yao Yao,Angel Chan. “Exploring mental lexicon in an efficient and economical way: Crowdsourcing method for linguistic experiments”,in Proceedings of the 4th Workshop on Cognitive Aspects of the Lexicon, (CogALex-4 at COLING- 2014), pp. 105–113, Association for Computational Linguistics and Dublin City University, Dublin, Ireland, August 2014

· Wang Shichang. (2009) “A Brief Discussion on the Application of the Meaning of Color in the Language of Advertising”, Academic Journal of Shandong Academy of Governance [Shandong Economic Management Cadres Academy], (5): pp.148–150, 2009

C. Academic conference presentations:

· Wang Shichang. “Cultural Inheritance in the Age of Crowdsourcing and Informationization”, Forum on Value Discovery and Fair Development in Today’s Rural China and Symposium on Cultural Inheritance in the Information Age, Shandong University, Jinan, Shandong, November 2016. Oral presentation

· Shichang Wang, Chu-Ren Huang, Yao Yao, Angel Chan, JiajuanXiong. “Crowdsourced manual Chinese word segmentation dataset WordSegCHC and the measurement of word intuition”, The 9th Conference of the European Association of Chinese Linguistics, (EACL-9), University of Stuttgart, Stuttgart, Germany, September 2015. Oral presentation

· Shichang Wang, Chu-Ren Huang, Angel Chan. “Semantic transparency and the semantic head effect of Chinese disyllabic compounds”, The 23rd Annual Conference of the International Association of Chinese Linguistics (IACL-23), Hanyang University, Seoul, Korea, August 2015 Oral presentation

· Shichang Wang, Chu-Ren Huang, Angel Chan. “Conducting Chinese language experiments in crowdsourcing environments”, The 26th North American Conference on Chinese Linguistics (NACCL-26) and the 22nd Conference of the International Association of Chinese Linguistics (IACL-22), University of Maryland, May 2014. Oral presentation

· Wang Shichang. “An Exploration of the Phenomenon of ‘Multiple-Construction Words’ in Transitive Disyllabic Compounds in Modern Chinese”, The 26th North American Conference on Chinese Linguistics (NACCL-26) and the 22nd Conference of the International Association of Chinese Linguistics (IACL- 22), University of Maryland, May 2014. Oral presentation

· Shichang Wang, Chu-Ren Huang, Yao Yao, Angel Chan. “Crowd-sourcing experiments, for better language data”, The Workshop on Variations in Action: a Multilingual Approach (VariAMU), Hong Kong Polytechnic University, March 2014. Oral presentation