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Dr. Xiaojun Zhang (张霄军) is an associate professor at Xian Jiaotong-Liverpool University (China) and an honorary associate at University of Liverpool (UK). He is the adjunct professor of Open University of Cyprus (Cyprus) and Northwestern Polytechnical University (China). He was an academic staff and researcher at high education institutes in China, Ireland and UK after he obtained his PhD degree in computational linguistics in 2008. He was a lecturer in translation and interpreting studies and a joint programme director at University of Stirling, UK, before he joined XJTLU as the subject leader in translation technology in 2018. He is the deputy chairman of Translation Technology Education Society affiliated to WITTA (World Interpreting and Translation Teaching Association) and member of professional conduct committee of Association of Computational Linguistics (ACL). he is the scientific members for the top conferences in natural language processing such as LREC, CWMT, CCL, EMNLP and AACL. He is the peer-reviewer for international and national journals. His research interesting covers translation technology, natural language processing and practical translation.
Research interests
Translation Technology
Natural Language Processing
Literary Translation
Practical Translation
Experience
2018.09 - present Associate Professor in Translation and Interpreting Studies, School of Humanities and Social Sciences, Xian Jiaotong-Liverpool University, China
2016.04 – 2018.09 Lecturer in Translation and Interpreting Studies, Faculty of Arts and Humanities, University of Stirling, UK
2013.07 – 2016.04Postdoctoral Researcher in Machine Translation, ADAPT/CNGL Centre, School of Computing, Dublin City University, Ireland
2006.04 – 2013.07Head of Translation and Interpreting Studies Centre, School of Foreign Languages, Shaanxi Normal University, China
Teaching
12/2019- Coach of Chinese Team on International Olympiad of Linguistics (IOL)
08/2019 Tutor of Corpus Technology Applied in Translation, Guangzhou, China
07/2019 Tutor of Information Technology Applied in Electric Power Translation, Changsha, China
TRI201 Translation
TRI204 Technical Translation
TRI301 FYP in Translation
ENG305 FYP
ENG417 Translation and Technology
ENG203 Translation
ENG210 Technical Translation
LAN003 How Language Works
Education/Academic qualification
PhD, Nanjing Normal University - 2008
Research areas
- Translation and Interpreting Technology
- Natural Language Processing (NLP)
- Technical Ethics
Person Types
- Staff
Expertise related to UN Sustainable Development Goals
In 2015, UN member states agreed to 17 global Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) to end poverty, protect the planet and ensure prosperity for all. This person’s work contributes towards the following SDG(s):
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SDG 16 Peace, Justice and Strong Institutions
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AI-Enhanced Development of the “Translating China” Module Cluster and Learners’ International Communication Competence
Long, Y. (PI), Hu, W. (Team member), Kuang, X. (Team member), Su, H. (Team member), Zhang, X. (Team member) & Han, Z. (Team member)
1/10/26 → 31/03/28
Project: Governmental Research Project
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Suzhou Industrial Park Interdisciplinary Innovation (Research) Platform for Affective Computing and Interactive Health/苏州工业园区情感计算与互动健康交叉创新（科研）平台
Xu, Z. (PI), Liu, P. (Team member), Zhang, C. (Team member), Zhang, X. (Team member), Wang, W. (Team member), Zhu, X. (Team member), Leach, M. (Team member), lim, E. (Team member), Pan, Y. (Team member), Xiang, N. (Team member), Yang, Q. (Team member), Yue, Y. (Team member), Selig, T. (Team member), Zhang, H. (Team member), Wang, Y. (Team member) & Chen, Y. (Team member)
1/01/26 → 31/12/28
Project: Governmental Research Project
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Suzhou Industrial Park Affective Computing & Interactive Health Interdisciplinary Innovation (Research) Platform
Xu, Z. (PI), lim, E. (Team member), Leach, M. (Team member), Yue, Y. (Team member), Selig, T. (Team member), Wang, W. (Team member), Zhang, X. (Team member), Zhu, X. (Team member), Pan, Y. (Team member), Xiang, N. (Team member), Zhang, H. (Team member), Wang, Y. (Team member), Chen, Y. (Team member), Zhang, C. (Team member), Liu, P. (Team member), Wang, J. (Team member), Li, Y. (Team member), 黎秋宇 (Team member), 刘禹含 (Team member), 高一凡 (Team member), 朱铭徽 (Team member), 白万里 (Team member), 张吉儿 (Team member), 徐豪谡 (Team member), 胡晓松 (Team member) & Li, W. (Team member)
1/10/25 → 30/03/28
Project: Governmental Research Project
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Gerontolinguistics for Intelligent-Interaction Devices
Zhang, X. (PI), Wei, R. (Team member), 黄立鹤 (Team member), 陈欧 (Team member), 郭小燕 (Team member), 陈雷 (Team member), 朱金波 (Team member) & 冉沅忠 (Team member)
1/09/24 → 31/08/27
Project: Governmental Research Project
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Automatic Pre-editing for Machine Translation Based on Controlled Language.
Zhang, X. (Team member)
1/10/23 → 31/12/26
Project: Governmental Research Project
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An Evaluation Framework for Speech Translation Systems: Addressing Acoustic Factors and Error Propagation.
Wang, Z. & Zhang, X., 2026, In: Computational Linguistics and Natural Language Processing. p. 109-129Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
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A Robust Automatic Speech Recognition System for Elderly Users: Dataset Construction, Model Optimization and Practical Evaluation.
Zhang, X. & Jiao, H., 2026, (Accepted/In press) In: Springer CCIS（Communications in Computer and Information Science）.Research output: Contribution to journal › Conference article › peer-review
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Assessing the Working Memory Capacity of Large Language Models through Reading Span Tasks: An Empirical Study.
Li, Q., Zhou, J., Wang, Z. & Zhang, X., 2026, (Accepted/In press) Advances in Brain Inspired Cognitive System.Research output: Chapter in Book or Report/Conference proceeding › Conference Proceeding › peer-review
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Audio Description Research under the Perspective of Translation Studies
Lv, J. & Zhang, X., 2026, In: New Perspectives in Translation Studies. 1, p. 24-35Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
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Contemporary Linguistics Key Words: Machine Translation
Zhang, X., Zhou, J. & Jiao, H., 2026, In: Foreign Language Studies. 4, p. 10-21Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
Activities
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Chinese language processing technology evaluation CCL26-Eval
Zhang, X. (Participant)
15 Oct 2026 → 18 Oct 2026Activity: Participating in or organising an event › Organising an event e.g. a conference, workshop, …
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UniHall-ZHEN: A Fine-grained Benchmark for Chinese-English Translation Hallucination in Decoder-only LLMs.
Jiao, H. (Speaker) & Zhang, X. (Speaker)
15 Oct 2026 → 18 Oct 2026Activity: Talk or presentation › Presentation at conference/workshop/seminar
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Investigating ChatGPT’s Translation Hallucination: An Embodied-Cognitive Translatology Perspective.
Jiao, H. (Speaker) & Zhang, X. (Speaker)
30 Jun 2025 → 7 Jul 2025Activity: Talk or presentation › Presentation at conference/workshop/seminar
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Multimodal Cognitive Computing for Machine Subtitling.
Zhang, X. (Speaker)
28 May 2025 → 30 May 2025Activity: Talk or presentation › Invited talk
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Investigating ChatGPT Translation Hallucination: An Embodied Cognitive Translatology Perspective.
Jiao, H. (Speaker), Li, X. (Speaker) & Zhang, X. (Speaker)
6 Dec 2024 → 8 Dec 2024Activity: Talk or presentation › Presentation at conference/workshop/seminar