Publications

2026 2

Journal

Metaphor identification using large language models: A comparison of RAG, prompt engineering, and fine-tuning

Fuoli, M., Huang, W., Littlemore, J., Turner, S., & Wilding, E.

Applied Corpus Linguistics, 100204 E-pub ahead of print

↗ arXiv preprint ↗ Birmingham Pure

Preprint

Interpretable Chinese Metaphor Identification via LLM-Assisted MIPVU Rule Script Generation: A Comparative Protocol Study

Huang, W., & Liu, M.

arXiv:2603.10784 [cs.CL]

↗ arXiv

2025 5

Journal

LERF: Estimation of Relative Frequency via Large Language Model

Huang, W., Grieve, J., & Murakami, A.

International Journal of Corpus Linguistics In progress

Journal

Attributing authorship via the perplexity of authorial language models

Huang, W., Murakami, A., & Grieve, J.

PLOS ONE, 20(7), e0327081 ~6 citations

↗ DOI ↗ Birmingham Pure ↗ Code

Journal

The sociolinguistic foundations of language modeling

Grieve, J., Bartl, S., Fuoli, M., Grafmiller, J., Huang, W., Jawerbaum, A., Murakami, A., Perlman, M., Roemling, D., & Winter, B.

Frontiers in Artificial Intelligence, 7, 1472411 ~38 citations

↗ DOI ↗ Birmingham Pure

Preprint

ChatGPT-generated texts show authorship traits that identify them as non-human

Dentella, V., Huang, W., Mansi, S.A., Grieve, J., & Leivada, E.

arXiv:2508.16385 [cs.CL]

↗ arXiv

Preprint

Metaphor identification using large language models: A comparison of RAG, prompt engineering, and fine-tuning

Fuoli, M., Huang, W., Littlemore, J., Turner, S., & Wilding, E.

arXiv:2509.24866 [cs.CL]

↗ arXiv

2024 3

Workshop

Authorial language models for AI authorship verification

Huang, W., & Grieve, J.

CEUR Workshop Proceedings, 3740 — CLEF 2024 (PAN) ~7 citations

Journal

Phylogenetic classification of Brazilian Portuguese dialects

Huang, W.

eJournal of Portuguese Linguistics, 23(1), 1–34 ~5 citations

↗ DOI

Workshop

Assessing Metaphor Identification Using Different Prompts and GPT-4

Turner, S., Fuoli, M., Huang, W., Littlemore, J., & Wilding, E.

LREC-COLING 2024 Workshop Proceedings ~5 citations

↗ ACL Anthology

2023 3

Workshop

Who's Speaking? Identifying Bilingual Children's Language Dominance via Machine Learning

Huang, W., Murakami, A., & Grieve, J.

EMNLP 2023 Workshop: SIGMORPHON ~3 citations

↗ ACL Anthology

Workshop

Authorial Language Models for Authorship Verification

Huang, W., & Grieve, J.

CEUR Workshop Proceedings, 3497 — CLEF 2023 (PAN) ~37 citations

Journal

Code-switching preferences of Hong Kong Cantonese–English bilingual children

Law, S.P., Huang, W., Yiu, K.M., & Chow, W.Y.

Bilingualism: Language and Cognition, 26(4), 724–737 ~20 citations

↗ DOI ↗ Birmingham Pure

Conference Talks 3

Talk

Estimation of Relative Frequency via Large Language Model

Huang, W., Grieve, J., & Murakami, A.

International Corpus Linguistics Conference, Jul 2025

Talk

Style in the Eye of the Machine: Authorship Attribution via Authorial Language Models

Huang, W.

Methods in Dialectology, Aug 2023

Talk

Phylogenetic Classification of Brazilian Portuguese Dialects

Huang, W.

Methods in Dialectology, Aug 2023