Qinghao Guan

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8050, Zürich, Switzerland

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I am a Ph.D. Candidate (Research and Teaching Assistant) at the Department of Communication and Media Research, University of Zurich. I joined the Computational Social and Communication Science division under the leadership of Prof. Dr. Jing Zeng in September of 2024. Before my PhD, I was a master student majoring in Computational Linguistics and minoring in Neuroinformatics at the University of Zurich (2022-2025). My professional background spans English linguistics (i.e., cognitive linguistics, computational linguistics, and ecolinguistics), communication science and digital humanities. My research interests lie in employing and developing Large Language Models for communication and social sciences across different topics and techniques, particularly focused on textual and visual content analysis on social media and information communication in Large Language Models.

📩 Contact: q.guan@ikmz.uzh.ch

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selected publications

SACRED: A Faithful Annotated Multimedia Multimodal Multilingual Dataset for Classifying Connectedness Types in Online Spirituality

Qinghao Guan, Yuchen Pan, Donghao Li, Zishi Zhang, Yiyang Chen, Lu Li, Flaminia Canu, Emilia Volkart, and Gerold Schneider

In LLMs4SSH Workshop at the Language Resources and Evaluation Conference 2026, May 2026

Accepted paper, May 11–16, 2026

Bib

@inproceedings{Guan2026SACRED,
  title = {SACRED: A Faithful Annotated Multimedia Multimodal Multilingual Dataset for Classifying Connectedness Types in Online Spirituality},
  author = {Guan, Qinghao and Pan, Yuchen and Li, Donghao and Zhang, Zishi and Chen, Yiyang and Li, Lu and Canu, Flaminia and Volkart, Emilia and Schneider, Gerold},
  booktitle = {LLMs4SSH Workshop at the Language Resources and Evaluation Conference 2026},
  year = {2026},
  month = may,
  note = {Accepted paper, May 11--16, 2026},
  url = {https://arxiv.org/abs/2603.27331},
}

How Do Multi-Modal Large Language Models Understand Non-English Visual Hate? Insights from Studying Hate Speech in Chinese-Speaking Communities on Instagram

Jing Zeng, Qinghao Guan, Ariadna Matamoros-Fernández, and Xiran Liu

Platforms & Society, 2025

DOI Bib

@article{Zeng2025hatespeech,
  title = {How Do Multi-Modal Large Language Models Understand Non-English Visual Hate? Insights from Studying Hate Speech in Chinese-Speaking Communities on Instagram},
  author = {Zeng, Jing and Guan, Qinghao and Matamoros-Fern{\'a}ndez, Ariadna and Liu, Xiran},
  journal = {Platforms \& Society},
  volume = {2},
  pages = {29768624251383735},
  year = {2025},
  doi = {10.1177/29768624251383735},
  url = {https://doi.org/10.1177/29768624251383735},
}

From AI to Authorship: Exploring the Use of LLM Detection Tools for Calling on "Originality" of Students in Academic Environments

Qinghao Guan and Yanxi Han

Innovations in Education and Teaching International, 2025

DOI Bib

@article{Guan2025Originality,
  title = {From AI to Authorship: Exploring the Use of LLM Detection Tools for Calling on {"Originality"} of Students in Academic Environments},
  author = {Guan, Qinghao and Han, Yanxi},
  journal = {Innovations in Education and Teaching International},
  pages = {1--15},
  year = {2025},
  doi = {10.1080/14703297.2025.2511062},
  url = {https://doi.org/10.1080/14703297.2025.2511062},
}