台湾苏克毅博士访问哈工大，并对博士生们进行指导

2005年11月4日-5日，台湾著名学者，机器翻译领域专家苏克毅博士访问哈工大，做了题为：“Statistical Machine Translation”以及“To Have Linguistic Tree Structures in Statistical Machine Translation?” 的精彩报告，强调了统计机器翻译需要融入语言学知识的观点。报告结束后与我实验室博士生进行了如何做博士研究的讨论，并针对高年级的博士生课题开展情况，给出了建设性的意见和建议，使每位博士生都受益匪浅。

苏克毅博士简历：

Dr. Su obtained his B.S. degree from National Tsing Hua University, Taiwan, and received his M.S. and Ph.D. degrees in Electrical Engineering from the University of Washington, Seattle, USA in 1980 and 1984, respectively. After his graduation, he took a faculty position with the National Tsing-Hua University in Taiwan. In 1985, he started and directed an English-to-Chinese Machine Translation (MT) Project. In 1988, he founded a company named Behavior Design Corp., to transfer the above BehaviorTran English-to-Chinese Machine Translation System into commercial usage. From 1989 to 1990, he was a visiting scientist at AT&T Bell Laboratories, NJ. During that period, he focused his attention on the areas of discrimination and robustness oriented speech recognition. Dr. Su left the university as a professor to join Behavior Design Corporation in 1998, and has been directing the company since then. During 1998 to 2001, he was also an Adjunct Professor for the Department of Electrical Engineering, National Tsing-Hua University, and an Adjunct Research Fellow for the Institute of Information Science, Academia Sinica, Taiwan.

Dr. Su has applied the statistical language model to NLP since 1986 (first published in Coling-88). He proposed and presented a Two-Way Training Corpus-Based Statistics-Oriented (CBSO) approach for MT at the MT-Summit in 1991 (also TMI-95), which automatically obtains associated parameters from given pairs of Source and Target Semantic-Normal-Forms via unsupervised learning. He also presented an automatic MT evaluation method in Coling-92. With years’ experience in this field, he is currently aiming to build a robust, practical MT system in NLP industry.

Besides his research, Dr. Su has also been closely involved in the activities of the computational linguistics community. He proposed and co-launched the Association for Computational Linguistics and Chinese Language Processing (ACLCLP, Taiwan) in 1988, and has been the president and the advisory board member for that association. He became familiar with the Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL) activities by serving as area chairs in ACL conferences (94, 99, 02), as an editorial board member for the Journal of Computational Linguistics (94-96), as a steering committee member for SIGDAT (ACL), and also as an executive committee member for ACL (05-07). Outside the ACL circle, he has served as the program chair/co-chair for various international conferences (e.g., EMNLP-00, NLPRS-01, IJCNLP-04), editorial board member for several international journals (e.g. International Journal of Machine Translation, Journal of Natural Language Processing, Japan, Communications of COLIP, Singapore, International Journal of Computational Linguistics and Chinese Language Processing), and an advisory/editorial member for the book series of “New Series in Natural Language Processing” (John Benjamins). In addition, he helped Taiwan host Coling-02 in the role of the Bid Committee chair. Dr. Su enjoys excellent relationships with researchers in various Asian regions: he has served as an invited speaker in various regional/international conferences (e.g., India, Indonesia, Korea, Singapore), given lectures on statistical NLP in Beijing, China (90, 02), and delivered a tutorial on “Pitfalls in Applying Unsupervised Learning to NLP” at IJCNLP-04. Recently, he co-launched the Asian Federation of NLP Associations (AFNLP), and is currently an Executive Committee member, the Secretary General, and the chair for the Conference Coordination Committee (for supervising IJCNLP conference series) of AFNLP.