CKIP Lab

The CKIP (Chinese Knowledge and Information Processing) group is a research team formed by the Institute of Information Science and the Institute of Linguistics of Academia Sinica in 1986. Its purpose is to establish a fundamental research environment for Chinese natural language processing. The preliminary goal of the project was to construct research infrastructures with reusable resources that could be shared by domestic and international research institutes. The accomplished resources include Chinese electronic dictionaries, Mandarin Chinese corpora, and processing technologies for Chinese texts. With these environments and technologies now well established, we are focusing on knowledge-based information processing. This area of research is motivated by the flood of information on the WWW for which effective and autonomous information processing tools are still lacking. To achieve high-level intelligent information processing, many of the most challenging research problems in the areas of knowledge acquisition, knowledge representation, and knowledge utilization are currently being addressed.