Chinese Language Resources Through One-Third of a Century

This chapter provides a comprehensive overview of the co-development of Chinese language resources and Chinese language processing in the past three decades. The overview highlights the contribution of the Institute of Computational Linguistics at Peking University and the CKIP group at Academia Sinica, as they are the two groups that constructed most to building a robust infrastructure for Chinese language processing. Adopting the metaphor of “language resources is water,” the chapter focuses on the power of accessibility, interoperability, and shareability, as well as the synergetic nature of language resources, language processing, and linguistic knowledge.