自然语言处理的研究与发展

Research and development of natural language processing

自然语言处理是信息技术最重要的研究方向之一,汉语自然语言处理应该包括对字、词、句子以及段落与篇章的处理。文中阐述了自然语言处理的研究方法及其现状,特别指出了汉语处理存在的特殊问题。概述了自然语言处理的主要研究方向,总结了我国在自然语言处理方面已经取得的成就与存在的问题,提出了对自然语言处理研究未来工作的思考。

Natural Language Processing （NLP） is one of the key issues in the information technology. NLP for Chinese covers a broad topics of processing the character, the word, the sentence, the paragraph and the discourse. In this paper state-of-the-art NLP researches is summarized, with a special focus on the unique challenges in Chinese NLP. The achievements and existing prob- lems in NLP is reviewed, and its possible future work is outlined as well from a personal perspective.