Chinese Language Processing: Achievements and ProblemsZong ChengqingAbstract
Chinese Journal of Language Policy and Planning ›› 2016, Vol. 1 ›› Issue (6) : 19-26.
Chinese Language Processing: Achievements and ProblemsZong ChengqingAbstract
In the past over 60 years, research on Chinese language processing has made great achievements. With the rapid development and popularization of the Internet and communication technology, Chinese language processing technology has attracted worldwide attention in recent years. This article summarizes the achievements of Chinese language processing and analyzes the present status of the technology in this field, particularly the problems that the field may face in term of development. The author argues that it is stilldifficult for artificial intelligence to “understand” rather than “process” naturally produced Chinese because of the following three reasons:(1) the current information processing technology is inadequate in processing grammatically complex Chinese sentences; (2) there are unsolved problems in machine learning technologies; and (3) our understanding of how human brain processes language is still very limited. This paper concludes that we need a better understanding of how the Chinese language is decoded in human brain and build acomputational model that specifically targets at the Chinese language in order for artificial intelligence to understand naturally produced Chinese.
Chinese language processing / natural language processing / natural language understanding / computational linguistics
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