Morphology (Languages); *Programming; Sentence Structure; Structural Analysis (Linguistics); Trend Analysis; Vocabulary; Written Language

Trends and developments in computer applications in Chinese language research are described, focusing on these areas: input of Chinese characters and Chinese corpus; automatic segmentation of Chinese written text in corpus; development of a grammar knowledge base for Chinese words to be used as a resource for text segmentation and corpus annotation; automatic part-of-speech tagging for the corpus; automatic phrase bracketing and syntactic annotation for the corpus; creation of specialized terminology data banks; and machine translation systems. Specific projects, cooperative efforts, and resulting resources are noted. (MSE) Reproductions supplied by EDRS are the best that can be made from the original document