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Introduction: Li Juanzi, Sui Zhifang, Liu Yang, Wan Xiaojun, he Xiaodong; Liu Zhiyuan, Han Xianpei, Sun Yan, Yan Rui, Zhang Jiajun

Lei Feng net AI Science and Technology Review Note: following the major research direction conference on "Intelligent Information Retrieval and Mining" held by Beijing Zhiyuan Institute of artificial Intelligence in August this year, today, the Institute of Intelligence once again released the major research direction of "Natural language processing", led by Professor Sun Maosong of the computer Department of Tsinghua University. Ten famous young and middle-aged scholars in the field of NLP, including Li Juanzi, Sui Zhifang, Liu Yang, Wan Xiaojun, he Xiaodong, Liu Zhiyuan, Han Xianpei, Sun Kui, Yan Rui, and Zhang Jiajun, jointly formed the strongest army of the "Beijing School" NLP. At the same time, the "Beijing Zhiyuan-JD.com Intermedia Dialogue Intelligent Laboratory" was set up at the press conference.

On October 8, 2019, Beijing Zhiyuan Institute of artificial Intelligence (hereinafter referred to as "Zhiyuan Research Institute") held a press conference on the major research direction of 'natural language processing' and 'Beijing Zhiyuan-JD.com Intermedia Dialogue Intelligence Laboratory' in the FIT Building of Tsinghua University.

1. Zhiyuan Scholars Program: to create the most influential academic and innovative ecology in the world

At the meeting, Huang Tiejun, director of Beijing Zhiyuan Institute of artificial Intelligence, introduced the contents and latest progress of the Zhiyuan Scholars Program, which will focus on first-class artificial intelligence scholars. to create the largest, most active, most cutting-edge and most influential academic and innovation ecology in the world, 100 Zhiyuan scholars will be selected to support them in 2019, including 5-7 major directions and 30-50 young scientists. The number of Zhiyuan scholars will be increased by 100 in 2020 and 2021 respectively, and the overall size of Zhiyuan scholars will be maintained at about 300.

Since its launch in April, the Zhiyuan Scholars Program has supported 57 Zhiyuan scholars in the directions of "Mathematical Foundation of artificial Intelligence", "Machine Learning", "Intelligent Information Retrieval and Mining" and "Intelligent Architecture and Chip". A number of cutting-edge research lectures have been given to the public, which have promoted the collision and fusion of ideas across fields, and aroused warm repercussions in the academic circles.

Huang Tiejun pointed out that in the development of artificial intelligence in Beijing, the focus is on basic theoretical innovation and core technological breakthroughs, and the key lies in talents. Beijing Zhiyuan artificial Intelligence Research Institute is not to build a physical research and development institution, but to build fusion and thruster. Two or four, lightweight operation, careful layout may achieve major breakthroughs and lead the direction of innovation, and give full play to Beijing's existing advantages, especially talent advantages. Attract the world's top talents and take the lead in achieving international leadership.

2. Release of candidates for scholars in the major research direction of Zhiyuan's "Natural language processing"

Huang Tiejun announced the list of candidates for Zhiyuan scholars in the major research direction of Natural language processing. Among them, the Chief Scientist (CS) is Professor Sun Maosong of the computer Department of Tsinghua University, and the Research Project Manager (PM) is Professor Yang Erhong of Beijing language and Culture University.

The candidates of five Zhiyuan researchers (PI) and five Zhiyuan young scientists are outstanding young and middle-aged scholars from Peking University, Tsinghua University, Chinese Academy of Sciences and JD.com. They are all young and middle-aged academic leaders with international influence in their research fields. many of them are editors of international top journals, and they have also won the best or outstanding papers from international top conferences in the field of natural language processing, such as the International Conference on Computational Linguistics (COLING) and the Annual meeting of the International Association of Computational Linguistics (ACL). They will focus on machine learning algorithms, knowledge acquisition and representation of natural language processing. Many breakthroughs have been made in natural language understanding, generation, machine translation and so on. The specific list is as follows:

Chief scientist of Zhiyuan Scholars in Natural language processing:

Sun Maosong: professor of Tsinghua University, an international leader in the field of natural language processing, has made outstanding achievements in the theory, method and application of natural language processing.

Natural language processing "Zhiyuan Scholar" Zhiyuan researcher list:

Li Juanzi: professor Changpin of Tsinghua University, an outstanding scholar in the field of international knowledge engineering, has made outstanding achievements in the field of knowledge graph and text mining.

Sui Zhifang: professor of Peking University, outstanding scholar in the field of international natural language processing, has made outstanding achievements in the field of language resources research and language analysis.

Liu Yang: associate professor of Tsinghua University, outstanding scholar in the field of international natural language processing, has made outstanding achievements in the field of machine translation.

Wan Xiaojun: research fellow of Peking University, outstanding international scholar in the field of natural language processing, has made outstanding achievements in the field of natural language generation.

He Xiaodong: executive Vice President of JD.com AI Research Institute, international outstanding scholar in the field of natural language processing and multimodal intelligence, has made outstanding achievements in the field of human language and visual technology and multimodal information processing.

Natural language processing "Zhiyuan Scholars" Zhiyuan Young scientists list:

Liu Zhiyuan: associate professor of Tsinghua University, outstanding young scholar in the field of international knowledge representation, has made outstanding achievements in knowledge graph and representation learning.

Han Xianpei: researcher, Institute of Software, Chinese Academy of Sciences, outstanding young scholar in the field of international language analysis and understanding, has made outstanding achievements in the field of information extraction.

Sun Yan: researcher of Peking University, associate professor of Changpin, outstanding young scholar in the field of international natural language processing, has made outstanding achievements in the field of language-oriented machine learning and language generation.

Yan Rui: researcher and assistant professor of Peking University, outstanding young scholar in the field of international natural language processing, has made outstanding achievements in dialogue system, text generation and other fields.

Zhang Jiajun: associate researcher, Institute of Automation, Chinese Academy of Sciences, outstanding young scholar in the field of international natural language processing, has made outstanding achievements in the field of machine translation.

3. Natural language processing is the key to global artificial intelligence strategy.

At the meeting, Professor Sun Maosong, the chief scientist, made a keynote speech entitled "big data and knowledge-driven Natural language processing". Sun Maosong pointed out that "natural language processing is the key to the global artificial intelligence strategy" and said, for example, "three of the eight national artificial intelligence strategies released by the National Council for Science and Technology in June 2019 are related to natural language processing." But at present, the related technology of natural language processing is far from mature, and the key to break through its bottleneck is "big data and knowledgeable two-wheel drive":

To this end, Sun Maosong said that the entire "natural language processing" project team, will be committed to solve the following key problems: multi-type knowledge resource construction, deep natural language understanding, controllable natural language generation, knowledge fusion machine translation, intelligent language learning, language intelligent demonstration application, and so on.

Subsequently, the candidate scholars of the "Natural language processing" research group shared their areas of expertise. According to Sun Maosong, the whole research group is expected to produce results in the following aspects: put forward big data and knowledge-driven natural language processing method system, forming international academic influence. The construction and open source of large-scale and multi-type knowledge resources has the characteristics of the deepest semantics, the most complete description, large-scale and so on. Establish a demonstration system to form a realistic and available solution. Language learning, machine translation and other key technologies form large-scale applications, resulting in social and economic benefits.

4. "Beijing Zhiyuan-JD.com Intermedia Dialogue Intelligence Joint Laboratory" unveiled.

Another highlight of this press conference is the unveiling ceremony of "Beijing Zhiyuan-JD.com Intermedia Dialogue Intelligence Joint Laboratory".

Tang Jie, deputy director of Beijing Zhiyuan Institute of artificial Intelligence, introduced the overall work of Beijing Zhiyuan Joint Laboratory. Joint laboratory is a platform for Zhiyuan Research Institute to carry out omni-directional scientific research cooperation with major universities, scientific research institutes, superior enterprises and other institutions for the future development of artificial intelligence and centering on major application needs.

According to Tang Jie, Zhiyuan joint laboratories are divided into two categories: joint laboratories with colleges and universities, and joint laboratories with superior enterprises.

The joint laboratory built with universities and scientific research institutes mainly carries out the research on the basic theory of artificial intelligence, which aims to break through the major core basic theoretical problems in the field of artificial intelligence. Zhiyuan Research Institute provides support for co-construction units such as scientific research projects, talent plans, and resources for the transformation of scientific research achievements.

The joint laboratory built with superior enterprises mainly carries out the research on the common key technologies of major applications of artificial intelligence. The co-construction enterprises provide industry data and application scenarios, and put forward specific industry common key technical issues and requirements, recruit researchers globally, and Zhiyuan Research Institute provides financial support in the form of scientific research projects.

The Beijing Zhiyuan-JD.com Intermedia Dialogue Intelligent Joint Laboratory, which is now launched, is the second joint laboratory established by Zhiyuan Research Institute in April this year, following the Beijing Zhiyuan-discerning Intelligent Model Design and Image perception Lab.

Subsequently, Tang Jie, vice president of Beijing Zhiyuan Institute of artificial Intelligence, and Zhou Bowen, director of Beijing Zhiyuan-JD.com Cross-Media Dialogue Intelligence Joint Laboratory, vice president of JD.com Group and president of JD.com artificial Intelligence Research Institute, jointly unveiled the joint laboratory.

After the unveiling, Zhou Bowen introduced the work of the joint laboratory. Zhou Bowen said: "this joint laboratory will focus on the field of cross-modal intelligent dialogue and human-computer interaction, aiming at retail, logistics, customer service, finance, insurance and other application scenarios." to carry out large-scale technical research on cross-modal information perception, dialogue, user portraits and their applications. "

To this end, relying on JD.com 's massive data accumulation and super computing power in the field of e-commerce retail, the joint laboratory will focus on creating super-large-scale, open-domain, real and complex scene data sets in the field of cross-modal dialogue and human-computer interaction, and provide the world's top research teams and experts with computing resources and technology verification platforms to support cutting-edge technology research, standard data sets and open application platforms built for global openness. Create forward-looking and exemplary applications in intelligent retail scenarios.

In addition, the joint laboratory will also attract more top global teams and talents to carry out joint research and industrialization services by holding authoritative international competitions on a regular basis. Zhou Bowen said that in the first year after its launch, the Joint Laboratory will first achieve the following objectives:

Hold Zhiyuan-JD.com task-driven multi-round dialogue contest in large-scale and complex scenes

Open the text dataset of the first issue of Zhiyuan-JD.com-task-driven multi-round dialogue

Construction of large-scale computing and algorithm verification platform

Organize and hold the first phase of Zhiyuan Summer School

Open source systems and models developed for global open source open laboratories

Invite international well-known experts and academic advisers to join the academic expert committee of Zhiyuan-JD.com joint laboratory.

5. Round table: NLP's way to put it into practice

The last meal of the conference was "Round Table discussion: the practical ways of Natural language processing", hosted by Liu Yang, an associate professor at Tsinghua University. The scholars who participated in the discussion provided their own research vision and professional opinions on related topics such as "technological breakthroughs and challenges of natural language processing", "the relationship between natural language and artificial intelligence", "application status and future trends of natural language industry" and so on.

6. Beijing Zhiyuan Conference

According to Lei Feng, from October 31 to November 1, 2019, under the guidance of the Beijing Municipal people's Government, the Beijing Zhiyuan Institute of artificial Intelligence will hold the Beijing Zhiyuan Conference (BAAI Conference, https://www.baai.ac.cn/2019) at the National Convention Center.

The conference will bring together dozens of top international AI scholars and experts to discuss the latest academic progress and industrial trends of AI, and show the latest achievements of AI scientific research and industry, including: Zhang cymbal, academician of the Chinese Academy of Sciences and chief of the academic committee of Zhiyuan Research Institute; John E. Hopcroft, winner of the Turing Award, adviser to the Premier of the people's Republic of China and member of the academic Committee of Zhiyuan Research Institute. Gao Wen, academician of the Chinese Academy of Engineering and member of the academic committee of Zhiyuan Research Institute, head of the "Heavenly Movement" team on the cover of Nature, and director of the brain Computing and Research Center of Tsinghua University. There is no doubt that this will be another "real expert AI event".

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