Prof. Zhiwei Feng from Ministry of Education Gave Lectures in School of International Studies

Prof. Zhiwei Feng from Ministry of Education Gave Lectures in School of International Studies

Oct.29, 2007,SIS

   Upon the invitation from the Institute of Applied Linguistics, School of International Studies, Prof. Zhiwei Feng gave two
lectures on the afternoon of Oct. 25 and 26 in 2007. The topics of the lectures are: 1) History and Current Status of Machine
Translation. 2) Case Grammar and the Frame Net.

   Using videos, photos, charts and tables, Prof. Zhiwei Feng elaborated on what is machine translation, how the machine
translation develops, how the fame net evolves from case grammar, and its implications for machine translation. His lectures
captured the attention of the audiences not only from the School of International Studies but also from School of Humanities.

   Prof. Zhiwei Feng has two master’s degrees, one in linguistics from Peking University and the other in information science
from China University of Science and Technology. He has been visiting professor and consultant in several distinguished
universities in France, Germany, South Korea and etc. At present he is a researcher at the Institute of Applied Linguistics,
Ministry of Education and concurrent professor at Peking University, Zhejinag University, Beijing Normal University,
Communication University of China and Heilongjiang University.

Prof. Zhiwei Feng’s academic interests range over a variety of areas such as machine translation, computational linguistics, natural language processing, the study of terminology, applied linguistics, linguistic theory and corpus linguistics.

                                                          Institute of Applied Linguistics,
                                                                                      School of International Studies