Applied Research Excellence Award Public & Social Services Suen Caesar LUN 12 January, 2001

Knowledge “Theory applied” and “Theory not yet applied” Quoted from a mathematician in the World Academician Conference 2000, held at the City University of Hong Kong

Converging Goals of Human Knowledge The goal of science is “Truth” The goals of humanities are “Virtue”, “Beauty” and “Truth” Technology bridges the two fields and applies science and humanities to the benefits of the mankind. The concern for people is the center of technological advancement. Technology

Information Technology LanguageLanguage –audio (pronunciation), visual (text) Visual informationVisual information –graphics and videos Other sensesOther senses –touch, smell, taste...

Language Information CommunicationCommunication -- between people, as well as between people and machine (Natural Language Processing, NLP): –Provide information –Expression of feelings –Promotion of solidarity –Tool for thinking –Tool for linking the present with the future

Language Information Technology Computer-assisted Language Learning (CALL): Chinese, English Translation: manual, machine Language Planning: –Cantonese romanization –Heterographic words ( 異形詞 ) –Terminology Association of HK [ k ]

Real World Cyber World Language Learning Tools (CALL packages) Language Reference Tools (Online dictionaries, glossaries...) Language Processors (Spell checkers, parsers, machine translation programs...)

語言自動處理 機器 翻譯 語言文字 研究 詞典 編纂 文字 改革 中小學 語文教材 編纂 自然語言 理解 語音 自動識別 文字 自動識別 情報 自動檢索 文獻 自動檢索 中文輸入 輸出設備 研製 檔案 自動管理 軍事 自動指揮 通訊 工程 語言自動處理與其他研究的關係

語言知識庫的構成 語言知識庫 詞匯知識語法知識其他知識文字知識語音知識

LangComp Company Limited An affiliated company of CityU Aims at raising the educational quality of Hong Kong by providing language-related products and services with its expertise in linguistics and computing

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