The Research Centre on Linguistics and Language Information Sciences (RCLIS) was founded at the Hong Kong Institute of Education (HKIEd) in May 2010 and is one of the five institute-level research centers. It aims to foster interdisciplinary research in the diverse areas of linguistics, natural language processing and information science. It also provides a forum for experienced researchers and young scholars to work together on problems of language and information technology in Chinese speech communities, to play a major role in advancing language information sciences globally, to provide a new and useful bridge between technology and the humanities and social sciences, and to inform the community about relevant research findings, especially within the Chinese context.