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From December 12 to 14, the 19th International Conference on the Processing of East Asian Languages (ICPEAL 2025) was held in Guangzhou.
Under the theme of "East Asian Language Processing: Integrating Cognition, Neuroscience, and AI", the conference attracted over 300 experts and scholars from more than 80 domestic and international universities and research institutions, including Harvard University, the University of Oxford, University College London, Peking University, the University of Hong Kong, and the University of Macau.
A group photo of all the attendees.
Wang Chunchao, vice president of South China Normal University, delivered the opening address. The conference was chaired by Professor Wang Suiping, director of the Philosophy and Social Science Laboratory of Reading and Development in Children and Adolescents (South China Normal University), Ministry of Education.
Vice president of SCNU Wang Chunchao delivers the opening address.
Professor Wang Suiping hosts the conference.
The conference received over 160 submissions, with nearly 40% of these contributions coming from 11 countries and regions overseas, representing 32 international universities and research institutions. The program includes five keynote lectures by internationally recognized scholars, 11 invited talks by experts, 20 oral presentations covering ongoing research, 33 flash talks for brief presentations of new ideas, and 95 poster presentations, offering an open space to share research and meet other participants.
Professor Kate Watkins of the University of Oxford, professor Robert J. Hartsuiker of Ghent University, professor Li Ping of the Hong Kong Polytechnic University, professor Asli Özyürek of the Max Planck Institute for Psycholinguistics, and professor Jesse Snedeker of Harvard University delivered keynote lectures, covering topics on speech production and perception, shared syntax in bilinguals, artificial intelligence, and neurocognition.
Five scholars deliver their keynote lectures.
The invited talks session brought together renowned scholars from universities and research institutions both in China and abroad, including professor Li Xingshan from the Institute of Psychology, of the Chinese Academy of Sciences, associate professor Yiu-Kei Tsang of Hong Kong Baptist University, professor Ming Xiang of the University of Chicago, Dr. Nai Ding of Zhejiang University, professor Chunming Lu of Beijing Normal University, Dr. Wang Shaonan of the Hong Kong Polytechnic University, Dr. Feng Gangyi of the Chinese University of Hong Kong, professor Yang Zhang of the University of Minnesota, professor Shelley Xiuli Tong of the University of Hong Kong, associate professor Wing Kuen Wong of the City University of Hong Kong, and professor Him Cheung of the University of Canterbury. They engaged in discussions on topics such as Chinese reading models, language comparison in the Greater Bay Area, and pragmatic inferences.
Eleven scholars share their findings in the invited talks session.
The conference also featured poster sessions and workshops, covering core topics such as character and word processing, sentence and discourse processing, and conceptual /knowledge representation and storage. A series of workshops led by the team of professor Cai Qing of East China Normal University, demonstrated the development pathways for psycholinguistic databases. Flash talks were also set up at the meeting for the first time, encouraging scholars to concisely present their research findings within three minutes.
Since its start in 1978, the International Conference on the Processing of East Asian Languages has been held every two years and has become an important international forum for research on how East Asian languages are learned and processed in the brain. The conference brings together researchers from around the world to discuss key topics in the cognition, learning, and processing of East Asian languages.
The Philosophy and Social Science Laboratory of Reading and Development in Children and Adolescents (South China Normal University), Ministry of Education, is among the first batch of 30 national-level philosophy and social science laboratories fostered and constructed by the Ministry of Education. It builds an artificial intelligence-driven campus reading platform with Chinese characteristics, keeps abreast of cutting-edge academic research, promotes interdisciplinary integration, and conducts strategic, forward-looking and practical studies relying on the disciplinary strengths of SCNU in psychology, linguistics, education, educational technology, and computer science.
The conference was co-organized by the following institutions: the Division of the Psychology of Language, the Chinese Psychological Society; the Neurolinguistics Research Branch, the Society for Modernization of Chinese Language; the Chinese Association of Psycholinguistics, the China Association for Comparative Studies of English and Chinese; and the Guangdong Provincial Research Center for Brain Cognition and Human Development.
Source from the School of Psychology
Translated by Luo Fengyi, Tang Ying
Proofread by Edwin Baak
Edited by Li Jianru
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