Bilingual News Glossary App ‘Newssary’, Developed by Dr Eva Ng of HKU Faculty of Arts,
Receives 2018 Top Ten Healthy Mobile Phone / Tablet Apps Award

‘Newssary’, a free Chinese-English news glossary app developed by Dr Eva Ng, Assistant Professor, School of Chinese in the Faculty of Arts of the University of Hong Kong (HKU), has been named one of the 2018 Top Ten Healthy Mobile Phone / Tablet Apps in the ‘2018 Healthy Mobile Phone / Tablet Apps Contest’ organised by the Office for Film, Newspaper and Article Administration (OFNAA) of the HKSAR government, and co-organised by the Education Bureau, the Committee on Home-School Co-operation, the Hong Kong Internet Service Providers Association and the Radio Television Hong Kong. 

The contest aims to encourage the use of apps with healthy, practical and educational content.  The ten apps with the highest combined scores from public voting and the adjudication panel have been selected as the Healthy Mobile Phone / Tablet Apps of the year.

The award-winning app from HKU, ‘Newssary’, a combination of ‘news’ and ‘glossary’, builds on the extensive bilingual news and current affairs glossary of nearly 9,000 entries created by Dr Ng and her team as a central feature of her website ‘Resources for Interpreting’.  In addition to terms culled from current affairs, the glossary also includes buzzwords and slang.  Since its launch in 2017, the app has been highly recommended by scholars, translators and interpreters, and is well-received in the community.  The bilingual glossary has become a vital resource for professionals such as bankers and lawyers, students and teachers, as well as members of the public who wish to improve their bilingual competence in Chinese and English.

Dr Eva Ng holds an MA in Translation and Linguistics from the University of Birmingham and a PhD in Forensic Linguistics from Aston University in the UK.  Prior to joining the University’s School of Chinese, she was a Court Interpreter with the Hong Kong Judiciary. She is the recipient of the Faculty Teaching Excellence Award 2014, Faculty Knowledge Exchange Award 2016 and Faculty Research Award for Junior Tenure-track Professorial Staff 2019 presented by the Faculty of Arts, and the University Teaching Innovation Award 2017.

‘Newssary’ is available for download at:

App Store: https://itunes.apple.com/hk/app/newssary/id1238609778?l=en&mt=8

Google Play: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=interpreting.hku.glossary&hl=en

For media enquiries, please contact Ms Cecilia Leung, Executive Officer, Faculty of Arts, Tel: (852) 3917 7150 / email: leunglsc@hku.hk.

港大文學院吳雅珊博士研發之中英時事詞彙應用程式「時彙」
獲選為2018年十大健康手機 / 平板電腦應用程式之一

香港大學文學院中文學院助理教授吳雅珊博士研發的中英時事詞彙應用程式「時彙」獲選為2018年十大健康手機 / 平板電腦應用程式之一。

2018年十大健康手機 / 平板電腦應用程式選舉由香港特別行政區政府之電影、報刊及物品管理辦事處（電影報刊辦）主辦，教育局、家庭與學校合作事宜委員會、香港互聯網供應商協會和香港電台協辦，旨在推廣內容健康、實用及具教育意義的應用程式。從公眾投票及專業評審中合計得分最高的十項應用程式，選出年度健康手機 / 平板電腦應用程式。

是次獲獎的應用程式「時彙」（意指「時事詞彙」），源自吳博士及其團隊數年前建立的「傳譯資源網」，收錄過去十多年、近九千條中英雙語時事詞彙，以及常見潮語、俗語的中英對照。此應用程式自2017年推出以來，不但獲學者及從事傳譯、翻譯人士推薦，更廣受社會各界歡迎。當中的雙語詞彙對銀行或法律等界別的專業人士，以至各級院校的師生，皆有莫大裨益，而普羅大眾也可透過學習中英時事詞彙，增進雙語能力。

吳雅珊博士持有英國伯明翰大學翻譯語言學碩士學位及英國阿斯頓大學法律語言學博士學位，加入港大中文學院前曾出任香港司法機構法庭傳譯主任。吳博士於2014年獲文學院頒授傑出教學獎，2016年獲頒知識交流獎，2017年獲香港大學頒授創新教學獎，並於本年度獲頒文學院傑出研究獎。

應用程式「時彙」可於以下網頁下載：

App Store: https://itunes.apple.com/hk/app/newssary/id1238609778?l=en&mt=8

Google Play: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=interpreting.hku.glossary&hl=en

傳媒查詢：請聯絡文學院執行主任梁樂思，電話：3917 7150／電郵：leunglsc@hku.hk。