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所長 | Director
Director’s Message
Welcome to the Institute of Information Science (IIS) at Academia Sinica. ly restored and enhanced many of those archives with good visual details
and greatly improved quality. These are some of the key technologies
Since the established of the Institute of Information Science (IIS) in 1982, and research efforts that enable IIS to play a leading role in the National
at the dawn of the information technology (IT) revolution in Taiwan, it Digital Archives Program - a 10-year national program supported by sev-
has experienced very rapid growth in less than three decades. Since its eral government agencies with a substantial funding level and a wide
inception, IIS has emerged as one of the leading research institutes in spectrum of applications that involve maps, pictures, documents, and
both computer and information science and related technologies in Tai- audio and video data obtained and maintained by many academic, gov-
wan. It has grown from a handful of people to the current 38 research ernment, and private organizations.
fellows with about 30 post-doctoral researchers, and slightly more than
所長的話 300 full-time research associates and specialists. Almost two-thirds of the There are many other research projects in IIS, including research in spa-
tial information processing systems to develop standard data schema
research fellows received their PhD degrees from major universities in
the USA or Europe, and another third from the top universities in Taiwan. and efficient conversion techniques for geographical information sys-
Many of them have also received distinguished awards and honors both tems (GIS) that could facilitate the sharing of spatial data across a va-
自資訊科學研究所1982年成立以來所內同仁兢兢業業、努力耕耘, 資訊所其他重要研究領域包括多媒體影像處理,尤其針對無法重拍 nationally and internationally. riety of different GIS systems; research in computer networking that
使本所在資訊科學的基礎研究上取得許多豐碩的成果。本所同仁多 之老舊照片以及類似的數位多媒體影像提供色調重現的技術,使其 Although IIS is not a degree-granting academic institute, nearly all the designs self-configurable, self-healing, and self-protecting mechanisms
年不斷致力高度前瞻性的資訊科學研究,開發關鍵性的資訊系統, 風華再現,2007年9月透過國科會所召開之記者會正式介紹給一般 research fellows supervise or co-supervise MS and PhD students in top- to support effective data transmission in opportunistic ad hoc wireless
並努力延攬及訓練有關資訊科技的高級研發人才,因此資訊所成長 民眾,此一核心技術亦已於國家型典藏計劃中供大量影像資料處理 ranked Computer Science departments in Taiwan, and collaborate very networks, such as those needed in a disaster area in which all the main
飛速,目前所內有38位資深研究人員,30位博士後研究學者,以及 使用;近年來本所亦發展地理資訊系統(GIS),成功開發了一套軟體 closely with their faculty members. One exception is the international communication infrastructures were destroyed by an earthquake or a ty-
300多位碩士級的專任及兼任研究助理與技術人員。 系統,可將現有利用「基本地形圖資料庫標準交換格式」的台灣地 graduate program in Bioinformatics under the auspices of the Taiwan phoon - common occurrences in Taiwan; research in bio-informatics that
形圖資料,自動轉換成較新的 XML 文件,使這些地理資料能方便的 International Graduate Program (TIGP) in Academia Sinica. The PhD pro- studies protein structures and predicts protein-protein interaction with
歷年來所內同仁榮獲各種國內外知名獎項及榮銜,其中包含國科會 在全球資訊網使用;在生物文獻探勘方面,我們建立了世界第一個 enhanced accuracy. It has also produced the first semantic role-labeling
傑出特約研究員獎、傑出研究獎、吳大猷先生紀念獎,中央研究院 生醫文句的語意角色標註系統;在複雜度理論與密碼學的基礎研究 gram was established in 2002, and has enrolled about 31 students over system for biomedical literature and developed literature mining tech-
深耕獎,中央研究院年輕學者研究著作獎,中華民國十大傑出女青 方面,我們發展各種亂度淬取程序以建立具有永久性的加密系統等 the last seven years. Many of our research fellows hold joint faculty ap- niques that could provide highly accurate gene and protein name iden-
pointments at top universities in Taiwan. This factor has played a very
年獎,經濟部國家發明創作獎,中華民國資訊學會李國鼎穿石獎與 等。這些都是資訊所同仁在諸多資訊研究領域中少數的幾個實例。 significant role in training and fostering advanced research talents in the tification, currently an extremely tedious and time consuming process.
資訊榮譽獎章,ACM 台北/台灣分會李國鼎青年研究獎,潘文淵文 IT industry and academia in Taiwan. Finally, the Institute conducts research into complexity theory, with the
教基金會研究傑出獎等。 本所許多研究成果均具有極高的資訊產品化潛力,此外,很多比較 focus on the construction of various randomness extractors that could
具有實用性及跨領域之研究項目,其研究發展的實驗平台需要非研 As the IT industry has long been the crown jewel of Taiwan’s economic be used in cryptography to derive extremely secure encryption schemes,
所內資深研究人員皆指導或共同指導來自全國各地頂尖大學之碩、 究之專業人員去維護,以便在平台開放後能有後續的支持,以利推 miracle and the envy of the world, IIS strives to play a unique role in this an increasingly critical technology for on-line transactions and commu-
博士生,並與這些大學保持緊密的研究關係及合作計劃,與國內外 廣使用。因此,在2007年成立一個新的「資訊科技創新研究中心」 major endeavor. It has always focused on fundamental and long-term nications. The above projects are just a small sample of many highly vis-
資訊業界亦有極為良好之互動關係。本所積極鼓勵跨領域之研究, (簡稱資創中心)。資訊所內幾個計畫,例如國家典藏計畫、網格計 research to further Taiwan’s competitive edge and sustain the growth ible research projects being conducted in IIS.
現有之研究計劃均包含許多生醫科學、社會科學、人文科學,以及 畫以及台灣的網絡資訊安全計畫、健康銀髮族計畫等均已交由資創 of this strategic enterprise.. At the same time, the Institute /manages a
其他相關重要領域之研究人員直接或間接參與,並已產生許多實際 中心繼續研發及執行。許多資訊所研究人員均接受資創中心合聘, research portfolio that includes cutting-edge, application-oriented infor- Many of our research efforts have significant practical implications and
may even generate potential commercial opportunities. In addition,
的研究成果。本所並於2002年配合中研院國際研究生院 (TIGP),開 以利更緊密之合作。 mation technologies that are unique to Taiwan’s society and culture. Our many of our application-oriented and development-intensive projects
始招收生物資訊學程博士班,致力延攬及培訓此一新領域之國際人 main research areas cover a wide spectrum of fields in both computer require different specialists to maintain and support application soft-
材,目前已有31名學生,對生物資訊的研究有很大的助益。 台灣資訊科技研究及產業正面臨許多令人期待又充滿挑戰的時刻, and information science. Many are cross-disciplinary and require close ware and interact with large user communities. To facilitate such efforts,
許多具有極大潛力的新興資訊科技正在萌芽,資訊所的同仁將秉承 collaboration with researchers in bio-medical sciences, social sciences,
所裡的同仁多年來全力發展中文語言及多媒體中文資訊處理技術, 過去的傳統,繼續朝著進昇為國際前列研究機構的方向努力。 liberal arts and other major fields. the Research Center for Information Technology Innovation (CITI) was
並發展許多關鍵性之中文語料庫及資料庫,例如「中央研究院中文 established in 2007 to work synergistically with IIS. Since the establish-
平衡語料庫(簡稱 Sinica Corpus)」目前全球已有超過130個研究單 For example, we lead a major research effort in Chinese language ment of CITI, IIS has transferred several large projects that are heavily
位授權使用中,其中包括 Yahoo 及 Apple 等大的多媒體公司。此外 processing and its related technologies for knowledge extraction and ac- application oriented and have significant developmental components
本所同仁積極發展具有新詞辨識能力之中文斷詞系統,在網上開放 我們竭誠歡迎大家至資訊所參觀並給予誠摯的指教。 quisition. Many indispensible tools and infrastructures used for research to CITI. They include the above-mentioned National Digital Archives Pro-
使用(http://ckipsvr.iis.sinica.edu.tw/),目前已有超過一百萬以上之 in this field today were developed at IIS, including the first balanced Chi- gram; the Grid and Scientific Computing Program, which supports grid
文件使用,其他如漢字構形資料庫之建立,以提供漢字缺字服務以 nese corpus (known as Sinica Corpus). It contains more than 5 million computing by physicists; and the Taiwan Information Security Program,
及中文句結構資料庫等亦都於網路開放使用。這些皆為中文電子資 words with part-of-speech tagging, and is available at http://www.sinica. which focuses on the training and recruitment of advanced information
security talents in Taiwan. There are also several projects, such as Free
訊處理及研究不可或缺之寶貴資源。我們更積極發展中文的搜尋引 edu.tw/SinicaCorpus. The project has already issued more than 130 li- and Open Source Software, Sensor Information Systems for Active Reti-
擎,運用機器學習與法則式的技巧,提供中文用戶更精準的答案與 censes to major research groups around the world, as well as major com- rees and Assisted Living (SISARL) and some components in Bioinformat-
mercial enterprises like Yahoo and Apple. The group has also developed
搜尋結果。
knowledge acquisition techniques for Chinese language-based informa- ics. We look forward to working closely with CITI.
tion to construct ontology structures as well as linguistic and common These are exciting and challenging times for IT research and the IT indus-
knowledge databases for information processing and logical inference. try in Taiwan. Many emerging technologies and opportunities are on the
Currently, the group is developing sophisticated Chinese search engines horizon. IIS, in working with the newly established CITI, looks forward to
that combine machine learning techniques to provide more concise and a concerted effort in leading the fundamental and practical research in
accurate results to users.
this important field.
In multi-media research, a group has been focusing on the restoration
and enhancement of digitized multi-media materials from archived old
and rare pictures and films of extremely poor quality, many with histori-
cal significance. It developed advanced techniques that have successful-
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