Recently, the Ministry of Education approved Guizhou University’s application of establishing an Engineering Research Center of the Ministry of Education on Text Computing and Cognitive Intelligence (hereinafter the "Research Center"). The “Research Center” will become the first engineering research center of the Ministry of Education on artificial intelligence in Guizhou Province and is therefore of great significance to the strategic development of big data across Guizhou. It will certainly help GZU boost its education in computer science and development in big data disciplines.

The “Research Center”, drawing on the strengths from the College of Computer Science and Technology and the College of Law, has collaborated with iFLYTEK Group to develop interdisciplinary disciplines, hoping to form an outstanding team, well-versed in academic research, engineering, and law. Currently, the cenre has 30 researchers, among whom there are ten professors, 15 associate professors, six doctoral supervisors, and 25 master’s supervisors. At present, there are more than 150 graduate students enrolled in full-time programs.  

In the long run, the “Research Center” will give priority to challenges in applying artificial intelligence to industrial processes and building research centers for text intelligent computing, cognitive knowledge engineering, and edge-cloud collaborative computing. Based on intelligent textual analysis and application, the centre intends to conduct research on fundamental algorithms for textual feature recognition, key technologies for automatic construction of textual cognitive graph and related reasoning, and key technologies for knowledge computing for text based on edge-cloud collaboration, and application and demonstration of text similarity calculation and cognitive intelligence. With all of these, the “Research Center” intends to form a leading research team capable of making intelligent text analysis in five years. At the same time, efforts should be made to promote greater synergy between industries, academia, and research by conducting research and commercializing research outcomes pertinent to artificial intelligence application scenarios. It is hoped that these efforts could also generate more outstanding talented minds in artificial intelligence to play a contributing role in boosting socio-economic improvement.  

Editor: Zhang Chan & Han Xiaomei

Chief Editor: Zhang Yajun

Senior Editor: Yan Nai

Translator: Li Xiaorong