Sixty Years of Chinese Information Processing
YU Shiwe · Applied Linguistics · 2009
The Chinese Information Processing(CIP) is a charming flower in the garden of natural language processing(NLP).In the recent sixty years,she has been giving out fantastic colors and invited so many linguists,computational linguists,and NLP engineers working to devote themselves to CIP.Fruitful results have been made in the past decades.This paper first briefly reviews the process of Chinese language modernization in China,the important results,and the effects on CIP,and then summarizes the related work on Chinese character information processing as well as Chinese language information processing. The academic activities and international exchanges in this area are also introduced.Finally,the challenges that CIP faces to are roughly analyzed and the future development is prospected.