Maosong Sun
Maosong Sun researches NLP and Chinese-language computing. Sun joined Tsinghua’s department in 1988 and earned a computational-linguistics doctorate at City University of Hong Kong in 2004. His projects include Chinese text analysis, categorization and language networks. With Xiaoyuan Yi and Ruoyu Li he developed a recurrent encoder-decoder approach to classical Chinese poem generation in 2016, examining meaning and formal patterns across lines. ACL elected him a Fellow in 2022. His shared work joins linguistic structure with statistical language technology.
- Now at
- Tsinghua University
- Works
- 811
- Citations
- 39,275
- h-index
- 84
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Timeline
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1988–2004
A career in Chinese-language computing
Sun earned a bachelor’s degree in 1986, a master’s degree in 1988, joined Tsinghua’s department in 1988, and earned a City University of Hong Kong computational-linguistics doctorate in 2004. He researches statistical and corpus-based NLP and Chinese-language computation.
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2000–2011 project periods
Language structure and text analysis
His projects included work on large-scale Chinese texts from 2000 to 2003, text categorization from 2004 to 2005 and 2006 to 2008, and Chinese-language networks from 2009 to 2011. These projects connect linguistic representations with the organization and analysis of text.
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2016
Shared neural poetry generation
Xiaoyuan Yi, Ruoyu Li and Sun introduced a recurrent encoder-decoder method for generating Chinese classical quatrains in 2016. The method treats lines as a sequence-to-sequence problem, with a topic word as input.The method studies meaning across lines and structural, rhythmic and tonal patterns.
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2022
ACL fellowship
ACL elected Sun a Fellow in 2022. His career combines Chinese linguistic processing, statistical methods and shared generation research.
Sources and credits
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