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fellows with about 30 post-doctoral researchers, and ging, which is available at http://www.sinica.edu.tw/Sini- Our research in bioinformatics has also flourished. We
slightly more than 300 full-time research associates and caCorpus. More than 130 licenses have been issued to lead the world in the prediction accuracy of membrane
specialists. Many of them have received distinguished major research groups and companies around the world, protein structure, and structure similarity of proteins. We
awards and honors both nationally and internationally. including Yahoo and Apple. Our intelligent Chinese input have produced a complete suite of mass spectrometry
We are especially happy that Prof. Wen-Tsuen Chen, a system, “GOING”, has been used by more than a million data analysis tools. We have studied several important
former President of Tsing Hua University, joined us as a people in Taiwan. We have also developed Chinese word issues on plant photosynthesis and microRNA biology
Distinguished Research Fellow this year. segment system (http://ckipsvr.iis.sinica.edu.tw/) that and published the results on top biological journals. In
has processed more than a million documents. In addi- gene regulation, we have successfully developed com-
Many research fellows supervise or co-supervise MS and tion, we have developed Chinese question answering putational approaches to identify the function and bind-
PhD students in top-ranked Computer Science depart- system that has won major international competition. ing sites of transcription factors. Our colleagues have
ments in Taiwan, and collaborate very closely with their Currently, the group is developing sophisticated Chinese received the World Cloud Research Collaboration Project
faculty members. In 2003, a PHD program was estab- natural language tools combining pattern matching and awarded by Microsoft Research. Finally, IIS has produced
lished in Bioinformatics under the auspices of the Tai- machine learning techniques to provide more concise the first semantic role-labeling system for biomedical lit-
wan International Graduate Program (TIGP) in Academia and accurate results to users. erature and developed literature mining techniques that
Sinica. It has enrolled about 34 students over the past could provide highly accurate gene and protein name
eight years, which has benefited the biological research In early 2008, our colleagues developed a “people count- identification, which can save tremendous amount of
a great deal in Academia Sinica. Many of our research ing’’ system which can effectively count the number of time for biomedical researchers.
fellows hold joint faculty appointments at top universi- people who have watched advertisements in front of a
ties in Taiwan, which has played a very significant role in TV wall during a period of time. This product won the Many of our research efforts have significant practical
training and fostering advanced research talents in the IT 15th small business innovative research award sponsored implications, which could generate potential commer-
industry and academia in Taiwan. by the Ministry of Economic Affairs and the best choice cial opportunities. In addition, many of our application-
award of 2009 Computex Taipei. In 2010, we developed a oriented and development-intensive projects require
As the IT industry has long been the crown jewel of Tai- blur license plate image recognition system, which is the different specialists to maintain and support application
wan’s economic miracle and the envy of the world, IIS first in the world that could solve the blur license plate software and interact with large user communities. To fa-
strives to play a unique role in this major endeavor. It image recognition problem in a systematic manner. We cilitate such efforts, the Research Center for Information
has always focused on fundamental and long-term re- have also successfully transferred our technologies on Technology Innovation (CITI) was established in 2007 to
search to further Taiwan’s competitive edge and sustain online game traffic and user behavior analysis to Gama- work synergistically with IIS.
the growth of this strategic enterprise. At the same time, nia Inc., one of the biggest game companies in Taiwan.
Welcome to the Institute of Information Science the Institute manages a research portfolio that includes Our technology has helped them reduce the frequency These are exciting and challenging times for IT research
(IIS) at Academia Sinica. cutting-edge, application-oriented information tech- of network lags and game cheating incidents. IIS built an and the IT industry in Taiwan. Many emerging technolo-
nologies that are unique to Taiwan’s society and culture. efficient agent-based simulation system, which has been gies and opportunities are on the horizon. IIS, in working
Since the established of the Institute of Information Sci- Our main research areas cover a wide spectrum of fields used by CDC, Taiwan since 2010 in preparation to deal with the newly established CITI, looks forward to a con-
ence (IIS) in 1982, at the dawn of the information technol- in both computer and information science. Many are with the H1N1 pandemic flu outbreak. Finally, the Insti- certed effort in leading the fundamental and practical
ogy (IT) revolution in Taiwan, it has experienced very rap- cross-disciplinary and require close collaboration with tute conducts research in complexity theory, with the fo- research in this important field.
id growth in less than three decades. Since its inception, researchers in bio-medical sciences, social sciences, lib- cus on the construction of various randomness extractors
IIS has emerged as one of the leading research institutes eral arts and other major fields. that could be used in cryptography to derive extremely
in both computer and information science and related secure encryption schemes, an increasingly critical tech-
technologies in Taiwan. Currently, we have 38 research We lead a major research effort in Chinese language pro- nology for on-line transactions and communications. The
cessing. IIS developed the first balanced Sinica Corpus above projects are just a small sample of many highly vis-
with more than 5 million words and part-of-speech tag- ible research projects being conducted in IIS.

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