Sumin （蘇敏）Zhao

Our paper on Semantics and Sentiment: Cross-lingual Variations in Emoji Use is now available in the ACL anthology (for this year's @emnlpmeeting ) It was a project I did with our most talented and hardworking CDT NLP students, which was great fun! aclanthology.org/2024.emnlp-mai…

Hello All, Dr Xi Cui (@CofC) and I are editing a special issue on Global Diaspora and Social Media for a free open access journal. You can find the call here omgc.shisu.edu.cn/fd/2f/c12420a1… All approaches welcome and especially those who work on less documented diasporic communities.

Many thanks to Edinburgh Linguistics Circle (@Christianilbury @SuminZhao & @dialect & many others) for the opportunity to share my @LeverhulmeTrust funded project on the urban history of Shanghainese. Really enjoyed learning more about your research during my visit as well! ✨

Our analysis suggests that language is necessary for setting up the argumentative context for graphs, even when it does not explicitly encode evaluative meaning. Interlocutors are very adept at inferring the argumentative agendas based on very little multimodal information.

My paper with Chris Cummis "Arguing with numbers on social media" is out (open access). In the paper we ask a simple question, can a visual graph encode an argumentative agenda when this is not explicitly expressed in the written text? journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/26…

Pleasantly surprised to discover that my honours student Sophie Anderson has received this year's Angus Mactintosh Prize for her project on pointing gestures across vlog genres. 😆 It is one of those moments that make you feel that your life is not completely wasted..🥹🥹

I became a prof. Professor of Immersive Storytelling. Shouting it out there as it’s not been the easiest ride. Thanks to great friends, colleagues and family.

@katecowan We will catch up we will 🥹

@SuminZhao @drjenrowsell @_FionaScott @AbiHackett @drchrisjbailey Waaah I’m so sorry to have missed this! 😭

A huge thanks to @drjenrowsell for such a wonderful conference and all the great talks 😚 meeting with Sheffield literacy scholars has always been a joy, especially after 2 millions of years @_FionaScott @AbiHackett @drchrisjbailey. Shine on all you diamonds

@drchrisjbailey @JohnPP @drjenrowsell @_FionaScott @AbiHackett

@SuminZhao @JohnPP @drjenrowsell @_FionaScott @AbiHackett Older than your profile photo? Is that better?

@drchrisjbailey @JohnPP @drjenrowsell @_FionaScott @AbiHackett “Humble” 🫣😳 is this your revenge 🤪😜

@JohnPP @SuminZhao @drjenrowsell @_FionaScott @AbiHackett Sumin is so humble she didn't even mention a promotion! Well done Sumin and so nice to see you John.

The sexiest talk I have event written mostly because I interpreted the conference theme in a very literal way 🙂‍↔️🫣😳

Our @BAAL SIG (baallangnewmedia.wordpress.com) is looking for new convenor (replacing me) and event coordinator! I have served on both roles and they helped me to build up a community in the UK as a "foreigner" ;-) ! Do put your hands up 🙋‍♂️🙋🙋‍♀️.

Hello lovely corpus people, can any one help one of my PhDs? Does anyone know how one can fix or get around this bug on CQPweb? 🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏

I have finally wrapped up all the old projects and sent off all the writings I owe people. It’s time for new projects I had been plotting since the end of the COVID 😭😭😭🙂‍↔️🙂‍↔️

Join us and guest speaker Sumin Zhao (@EdinburghUni) to discuss the role social media apps play in the literacy practices of young people from Chinese-speaking families. 📅 23 May ⏰ 1 - 2 p.m. 📍 University of Bath Book your space below. ⬇️ bath.ac.uk/events/the-hun… @SuminZhao

Don't forget 🤣😂

The joint annual event organised by two @BAAL SIGs (Lang & New Media and Health Communication) is just over a week away. Do forget we also have a series of online talks organised in the following week! Two exciting weeks ahead! baallangnewmedia.wordpress.com/events/past-ev…

Marking is hardly a fun task, but this year's student projects for my Discourse Analysis course are just so freakingly amazing 🤯🤩. I learned so much from reading them in particular how we can creatively use social media data in linguistic research.