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Chinese Information Processing and Its Prospects

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The paper presents some main progresses and achievements in Chinese information processing. It focuses on six aspects, i.e., Chinese syntactic analysis, Chinese semantic analysis, machine translation, information retrieval, information extraction, and speech recognition and synthesis. The important techniques and possible key problems of the respective branch in the near future are discussed as well.

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Survey: Supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China (Grant Nos. 60375019, 60373101 and 60575041).

Sheng Li is a professor and Ph.D. supervisor of Harbin Institute of Technology. He is a standing director of Chinese Information Processing Society, appraiser of National Science Foundation, director of MOE-MS Key laboratory of NLP & Speech in HIT. His research interests include machine translation, information retrieval and natural language processing. In recent years, he has accomplished more than 10 projects funded by the Natural Science Foundation of China or 863 Hi-Tech Project. He has won 4 Second Prizes and 3 Third Prizes of the Ministry Science and Technology Progress Award. He has published more than 70 academic papers in the journals and conferences at home and abroad.

Tie-Jun Zhao is a professor and Ph.D. supervisor of Harbin Institute of technology, vice director of MOE-MS Key Laboratory of NLP & Speech in HIT. He is the member of NLP subject committee of Chinese Information Society, member of editorial board of Journal of Chinese Information Processing, member of the committee of China Language Data Consortium, member of Harbin Expert Group on Information Security, the senior member of China Computer Federation. His research interests include natural language processing, content-based web information processing, applied artificial intelligence. He has won 3 prizes of Ministry Science & Technology Award. He has published over 60 academic papers and 2 books.

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Li, S., Zhao, TJ. Chinese Information Processing and Its Prospects. J Comput Sci Technol 21, 838–846 (2006). https://doi.org/10.1007/s11390-006-0838-6

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