Chinese Natural Language Processing

Overview

We work on a wide variety of research in Chinese Natural Language Processing, including word segmentation, part-of-speech tagging, syntactic and semantic parsing, and other areas.

People

• Professors:
  • Dan Jurafsky
  • Christopher Manning
• Students:
  • Huihsin Tseng
  • Pichuan Chang
• Alumni/Alumnae:
  • Roger Levy
  • Galen Andrew Now at Microsoft Research Asia

Software

A java implementation of The Stanford Parser is available online.

Publications

• Huihsin Tseng, Pichuan Chang, Galen Andrew, Daniel Jurafsky, Christopher Manning. 2005. A Conditional Random Field Word Segmenter. To appear in Fourth SIGHAN Workshop on Chinese Language Processing. [pdf]
• Huihsin Tseng, Daniel Jurafsky, Christopher Manning. 2005. Morphological features help POS tagging of unknown words across language varieties. To appear in Fourth SIGHAN Workshop on Chinese Language Processing. [pdf]
• Roger Levy and Christopher Manning. 2003. Is it harder to parse Chinese, or the Chinese Treebank? Published in Proceedings of ACL 2003 [ps]