Which professors are doing cutting edge work on Chinese natural language processing?
I can add three clues to this thread.
Firstly, I recently came across the 2009 book, “Introduction to Chinese Natural Language Processing”
http://books.google.com/books?id=gwmz7BOQrB0C
by
Kam-Fai Wong http://www.informatik.uni-trier.de/~ley/db/indices/a-tree/w/Wong:Kam=Fai.html
Wenjie Li http://www.informatik.uni-trier.de/~ley/db/indices/a-tree/l/Li:Wenjie.html
Ruifeng Xu http://www.informatik.uni-trier.de/~ley/db/indices/a-tree/x/Xu:Ruifeng.html
Zheng-sheng Zhang http://www.informatik.uni-trier.de/~ley/db/indices/a-tree/z/Zhang:Zheng=sheng.html
Secondly, it seems Ben Goertzel has been working extensively in China with Australian Professor Hugo de Garis; so, I suspect either would know who’s who and what’s what.
http://www.linkedin.com/pub/ben-goertzel/0/59/897
http://www.linkedin.com/pub/hugo-de-garis/4/384/64b
Third, there appears to be significant recent work being done in China on metaphor analytics, which might explain the current interest in Washington.
2010: “The Chinese Noun Metaphors Knowledge Base and its Use in the Recognition of Metaphors” by Zhimin Wang http://www.informatik.uni-trier.de/~ley/db/indices/a-tree/w/Wang:Zhimin.html
Shiwen Yu http://www.informatik.uni-trier.de/~ley/db/indices/a-tree/y/Yu:Shiwen.html
Zhifang Sui http://www.informatik.uni-trier.de/~ley/db/indices/a-tree/s/Sui:Zhifang.html
2010: “Research on the Cognitive Comprehension Logic and Its Application in Understanding of Metaphor” by SU Chang http://www.informatik.uni-trier.de/~ley/db/indices/a-tree/s/Su:Chang.html
CHEN Yi-jiang http://www.informatik.uni-trier.de/~ley/db/indices/a-tree/c/Chen:Yijiang.html
ZHENG Xu-ling http://www.informatik.uni-trier.de/~ley/db/indices/a-tree/z/Zheng:Xu=Ling.html