Activities
Honors and Awards
- Min-Jer Lee and Lee-Feng Chien, 1998 ACM SIGIR Best Poster Award for Late-breaking Research at Melbourne.
- Chun-Liang Chen, 1999 ISCSLP Best Student Paper Award at Singapore.
- Lee-Feng Chien, 1997 K. T. Li Distinguished Young Scholar Award, ACM Taipei Chapter.
Professional Services and Events
The lab is active in professional services, especially in information retrieval and Asian language information processing. Three times the lab director has served as a PC member at ACM SIGIR conferences, the top IR conferences. He also served as the PC chair at the 1999 International Workshop on Information Retrieval with Asian Languages (IRAL'99). To simulate the development of computational terminology research, he joined with three other organizers to organize the 2002 Computational Terminology Workshop. He is currently an associate editor of ACM Transactions on Asian Language Information Processing, and from 1996 to 2001, he was also an editorial board member of Information Processing and Management.
The conferences and workshops the lab was responsible for organizing in recent years are listed as follows: 2002 International Conference on Digital Archive Technologies, 2002 APEC Workshop on E-leaning and Digital Libraries, 2002 NSC Semantic Web Workshop, Computerm2002, COLING2002, 2002 ROLING Workshop on Information Classification Technologies, IRAL1999.