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Peking University, Nov. 26, 2012: The Second CIPS-SIGHAN Joint Conference on Chinese Language Processing (CLP) recently announced the result of the CLP-2012 Bake-offs. PhD Candidate Li Dongchen from School of Electronics Engineering and Computer Sciences, Peking University (PKU) came first in two sub-tasks.

The CLP-2012 Bake-offs, jointly organized by the Association for Computational Linguistics Special Interest Group on Chinese Language Processing (ACL-SIGHAN) and the Chinese Language Processing Society of China (CIPS), is considered the most influential and authoritative contest in the area of Chinese information processing. It has attracted many universities, research institutes and enterprise institutes worldwide which are carrying out related researches to participate.

In the CLP-2012 Bake-offs, there were three sub-tasks in Simplified Chinese parsing (Task 3) that had submissions: Close Track, Open Track Single Model and Open Track Multiple Models. PKU PhD Candidate Li Dongchen, guided by Professor Wu Xihong from Auditory Center in Key Laboratory of Machine Perception (Ministry of Education), PKU, submitted solutions in Close Track and Open Track Single Model and won the first place in both sub-tasks.

Chinese Language Processing is an interdisciplinary subject; the knowledge it requires includes but is not limited to computer science, linguistics, mathematics (especially statistics), logics and cognitive science. Automatic parsing is a key technique and research focus in Chinese information processing, which has been widely applied in mechanical translation, information retrieval, automatic summarization, text categorization and knowledge engineering, playing an important role in the development of information science and related industries.

Written by: Gao Hongfei
Edited by: Chen Long
Source: PKU News (Chinese)