Dr. Wen-Lian Hsu, a Distinguished Research Fellow of the Institute of Information Science, received The 2010 Outstanding Research Award of Pan Wen Yuan Foundation.

The Outstanding Research Award is given annually to distinguished Chinese individuals to recognize their excellent contribution in technology related fields, such as electronics, information science and communication. The number of awardees is limited to five Chinese from Taiwan, mainland China or oversea Chinese per year. Dr. Hsu was awarded the prize for his outstanding research contribution in natural language processing and biological literature mining. The GOING intelligent input method developed by Dr. Hsu, which is widely used in Taiwan, helps to popularize the use of Chinese computer in Taiwan. By combining the research experiences of computational theory and natural language processing, he was able to develop the most accurate protein secondary structure prediction algorithm. He also constructed the first automatic biological relation extraction system and leads the world in biological literature mining research.

Reference:  IIS News
Updated: 2010/05/17

Reference:  IIS News
Updated: 2008/09/17

Reference:  IIS News

Updated: 2008/06/25
　

　

The Intelligent Agent System Lab (IASL), lead by Dr. Wen-Lian Hsu, won the first place in NTCIR-6 Cross Language Question Answering (CLQA) System competition. It is the second year for such a competition in NTCIR. The IASL team, with years of experience in developing QA system, won the first place with a precision of 54.7% in the Chinese-Chinese mono-lingual subtask and 33.3% in the English-Chinese cross-lingual subtask, which is substantially better than last year's best results, 44.5% and 12%, respectively. Compared to QA systems in some other languages, the precision of Chinese QA system is lower. One of the main reasons is the unknown word and word segmentation problem in Chinese. IASL will continue the work trying to incorporate rules or templates and other semantic resources to improve the performance of Chinese QA systems. The NTCIR Workshop held by NII in Japan, is one of the most important international conferences of information processing in Asia. The first annual meeting of NTCIR workshop was held in 1999. The competitions of 2006 include Cross Language Information Retrieval (CLIR) Task, Patent Retrieval Task (PATENT), Question Answering Challenge (QAC), Multimodal Summarization (MuST) and Cross Language Question Answering (CLQA).

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Updated: 2008/06/25

　

Reference:  SIGHAN bakeoff 2006

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Reference: SIGHAN bakeoff 2006

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Reference:  SIGHAN bakeoff 2006

Updated: 2006/06/01

　

Prof. Wen-Lian Hsu won the Academic Sinica Investigator Award in recognition of outstanding research by providing long-term full research support.
　

Updated: 2005/11/24

　

The Fellow Committee has named 271 IEEE Senior Members to Fellow Grade
effective 1 January 2006.
The new Fellows are listed below.
...
Prof. Wen-Lian Hsu
Academia Sinica
Taipei, Taiwan
for contributions to natural language systems and bioinformatics.
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Reference: Class of 2006 IEEE Fellows

Updated: 2005/11/21

　

中研院資訊所許聞廉老師主持的「智慧型代理人系統實驗室」參加2005年基因體文件檢索比賽（TREC Genomics Track），Ad-hoc Retrieval競賽中，在與會32隊中排名第6。TREC為美國國家標準局（NIST）所主辦的國際會議，與會者多為資訊檢索相關學者，會議目的在促進相關領域技術交流。第一屆會議開始於1992，每年都舉辦多項資訊檢索比賽，今年的比賽項目包括企業文件檢索比賽（Enterprise Track）、基因體文件檢索比賽（Genomics Track）、高精準度檢索比賽（HARD Track）、問答比賽（Question Ansering Track）、Robust Retrieval Track、垃圾郵件過濾比賽（SPAM Track）等七項競賽。其中基因體文件檢索比賽已經是第三屆，而Ad-hoc Retrieval競賽則是第二屆。今年，基因體文件檢索比賽的題目混合了自然語言檢索題及表格式查詢，由於基因體文件查詢中牽涉到許多蛋白質及基因等數量大、無命名規律性的生物醫學名稱，因此要尋找到相關文件的困難度極高。智慧型代理人實驗室累積多年資訊擷取、資訊檢索、自然語言處理、生物資訊及問答系統開發經驗，在今年第一次參賽即獲得24.53%正確率，與美加兩地頂尖的York University、IBM、University of Waterloo、UIUC及National Library of Medicine（NLM）非常接近。該實驗室表示此次由於初次參加，僅做了關鍵字及關鍵詞片語擴展，未來將會加入更多生醫領域知識的運用，持續改進系統，提升檢索結果的正確率。

Updated: 2005/11/15

　

The Intelligent Agent System Lab (IASL), lead by Dr. Hsu, won the first place in NTCIR Cross Language Question Answering (CLQA) System competition. The NTCIR Workshop held by NII in Japan, is one of the most important international conferences of information processing in Asia. The first annual meeting of NTCIR workshop was held in 1999. The competitions of 2005 include Cross Language Information Retrieval (CLIR) Task, Patent Retrieval Task (PATENT), WEB Task (WEB), Question Answering Challenge (QAC), and Cross Language Question Answering (CLQA). It is the third year for QAC which is a competition of QA systems in Japanese. The QAC champion of last year is NTT, reaching the precision of 51.3%. This year, it is the first time for the NTCIR to hold CLQA. As to this reason, the questions this year, focus on people, location and artifacts, is simple and clear compared to other contests. IASL, with years QA system developing experience, won the first place with the precision of 44.5%. Compared to QA systems in some other languages, the precision of Chinese QA system remains relatively low according to this year's results of CLQA. One of the main reasons is the unknown word and word segmentation problem in Chinese. IASL will continue the work trying to incorporate rules or templates and other semantic resources to improve the performance of Chinese QA systems.
Updated: 2005/10/27

　

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