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Funded under the 2026 Mainland-Hong Kong-Macao University Teacher and Student Exchange Programme initiated by the Ministry of Education, the Teaching and Research Cooperation Project on Linguistic Data and Language Intelligence was successfully held and fully completed at the University of Electronic Science and Technology of China (UESTC) from 5 June to 13 June 2026. The official opening ceremony took place on 5 June at Lecture Hall 309, UESTC Comprehensive Building, and was presided over by Zou Tao, Vice Dean of the School of Foreign Languages. The event was attended by supervisory representatives from UESTC’s Hong Kong, Macao and Taiwan Affairs Office, School of International Education, and School of Foreign Languages. Leading the delegation from City University of Macau, Professor Zhang Haomin from the Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences led faculty members, administrative staff, as well as undergraduate, master’s and doctoral students in Applied Linguistics to attend the ceremony and deliver remarks, marking the official launch of this interdisciplinary cross-border academic collaboration.
Aligned with the national development of emerging liberal arts and interdisciplinary integration of arts, science and technology, the project established a high-standard cross-regional platform for academic cooperation and innovative talent cultivation. It aimed to broaden participants’ research horizons and strengthen their interdisciplinary competencies in the integration of linguistic science and artificial intelligence.
Throughout the nine-day intensive training programme, progressive academic workshops served as the core learning component, covering frontier topics such as AI-driven linguistic research, corpus linguistics, Python programming for linguistic research, language data mining, machine learning, cognitive neuroscience, and deep learning. Balancing theoretical instruction and hands-on practice, the curriculum enabled participants to conduct data analysis using professional corpus tools, visit the University’s Language Cognition Laboratory, and attend specialised lectures on large language models. The systematic training effectively broke the disciplinary limitations of traditional linguistics, building a comprehensive theoretical and technical foundation for intelligent language research.
In addition to academic training, the project incorporated a rich array of cultural study and practical activities, including intangible cultural heritage experiences for the Dragon Boat Festival, museum tours, traditional art education sessions, and patriotic science popularisation activities, achieving dual advancement in academic enrichment and cultural exchange. At the conclusion of the programme, Macao students presented their research outcomes. Participants from both universities conducted in-depth discussions on academic writing, journal submission standards and interdisciplinary research challenges. All participating teachers, students and administrative personnel were awarded official completion certificates.
The project has substantially promoted resource sharing, academic interaction and joint talent cultivation between mainland and Macao higher education institutions. Moving forward, UESTC and City University of Macau will further consolidate their long-term cooperative mechanism, continuously optimise cross-regional interdisciplinary teaching and research models, and nurture high-calibre versatile talents equipped with solid linguistic literacy and innovative artificial intelligence competencies.