The annual results of China’s National Social Science Fund have been announced. Eight students of the Summer College of Corpora and Digital Humanities had projects approved: seven youth projects and one general project.

Projects approved

The projects approved this year are:

• Liu Yanzhe (Nanjing University), an outstanding student of the third cohort and the best student of the fourth, built a synchronic corpus of Jianghuai Mandarin across Jiangsu, Anhui, Hubei and Jiangxi, and was named the best student of the large language model track at the 2026 College. His youth project is a depth survey of grammatical features in Jiangsu and Anhui dialects, together with a database.
• Guo Lelin (Fudan University, third cohort) is studying the transmission of pre-Qin and Han books through variant readings in bamboo and silk manuscripts.
• Sun Xiaoxue (Zhejiang University, second cohort) built a grammatical corpus and search tool for Wu Chinese, and is now working on bounded aspect in Wu from a typological perspective.
• Wang Lei (Fudan University, third cohort) built a system that recognises and distinguishes confirming and agreeing echo utterances with the Qwen3-4B model, and is studying the link between register and function in Chinese nominal predicate sentences.
• Hou Bowen (Peking University, third cohort) built a Chinese-Korean parallel corpus search system, and is comparing mirative categories in the two languages through semantic maps.
• Lu Ying (Beijing Union University, third cohort) built a search system for the discourse of the interview programme Thirteen Invitations, and is studying how multi-voiced discourse becomes single-voiced in new media, in a general project.
• Shi Ruotong (Nanjing Normal University, second cohort) built a search system for German translations of the "Universal Love" chapter of Mozi, and is tracing a century of German translation of the book.
• Zhu Guangxin (Hunan University, fourth cohort) built a database of rhymes in the verse of the Jiaxing canon, and is using it to study southern pronunciation in the late Ming.

From coursework to research

The College runs three practical tracks: database programming, statistical methods and large language model programming. Students begin with no programming background and finish with a project of their own. This year’s eight projects cover dialect corpora, variant readings in bamboo and silk manuscripts, Wu grammar and the German translations of Mozi.

The platform congratulates the eight students and will continue to support their research.