Curriculum Vitae

PERSONAL DATA:¡¡

Name: Weidong Zhan 

Date of Birth: August 31, 1972

Place of Birth: Guangshui, Hubei Province

Address: Department of Chinese, Peking University, Beijing, 100871, P.R.China

Email: zwd@pku.edu.cn

Homepage: icl.pku.edu.cn/doubtfire/

EDUCATION:

CURRENT POSITION & PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:

  • 1999.7 - 2002.7     Lecturer, Dept. of Chinese Language & Literature, 
                        Peking University
  • 2002.8 - present    Associate Professor, Dept. of Chinese Language & 
                        Literature, Peking University  

TEACHING EXPERIENCE:

  • 1999 - 2000 Academic Year 
      Course name: Phonetics & Lexicology of Contemporary Chinese
      Course name: Grammar of Contemporary Chinese
  • 2000 - 2001 Academic Year 
      Course name: Phonetics & Lexicology of Contemporary Chinese
      Course name: Grammar of Contemporary Chinese 
  • 2001 - 2002 Academic Year 
      Course name: Phonetics & Lexicology of Contemporary Chinese
      Course name: Grammar of Contemporary Chinese
      Course name: Introduction to Computational Linguistics
  • 2002 - 2003 Academic Year
      Course name: Foundations of Chinese Information Processing

RESEARCH PROJECTS:

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  • 1996.9 - 1998.1
 National High-tech Project (863 Project), titled Universal Machine Translation Platform & Chinese-English MT system (No. 863-306-03-06-2 )
  • 1998.1 - 2000.12
 The Key Project of National Ninth Five-Years-Plan Fund for Social Science, titled Description of Grammatical Attributes of Words in Modern Chinese (No. 97@yy001-6) 
  • 1998.12 -
 A Subproject of National Fundamental Research Project (973 Project), titled Newspaper-Oriented Chinese-English Machine Translation System (No. G1998030507-4)
  • 1998.12 -
 A Subproject of National Fundamental Research Project (973 Project), titled Chinese Semantic Theory And The Development of Semantic Lexicon for Chinese Information Processing (No. G1998030507-1)


INVITED TALKS:

  • 1999.10.17 -- 10.23
 Three Lectures in Institute of Mongolian, Univ. of InnerMongolia
  • 2000.5.2 -- 5.11
 Four Lectures in Dept. of Translation, Chinese Univ. Hong Kong

ACADEMIC EXCHANGES:

  • 2001.7.1 -- 2001.9.20 Cooperative Study in Sail Labs, Barcelona, Spain

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MAJOR PUBLICATIONS:

A. Book

1. A Study of Constructing Rules of Phrases in Contemporary Chinese for Chinese Information Processing, published by Tsinghua Univ. Press (Beijing), 2000.

B. Paper (Published in Academic Journal)

1. Disambiguation of the phrase pattern: pp<'bei'> + vp1 + vp2, In Zhonguo Yuwen (Beijing), vol.6, 1997. 
2. A NLP-oriented Phrase-based Grammar System of Modern Chinese, In Yuyan Wenzi Yingyong (Beijing), vol.4, 1997. 
3. On "NP de VP" Construction, In HanYu XueXi (Yanji, Jilin Province), Vol.2, 1998.
4. Usage of "NP de VP" Construction in Mandarin Chinese, In YuYan YanJiu (Taiyuan, Shanxi Province), Vol.1, 1998.
5. A Semantic Model Based on Phrase-based Grammar, In Communications of COLIPS (Singapore), vol.8, No.1, 1998.
6. Analysis on Types of Phrase Boundary Ambiguity in Contemporary Chinese, In Journal of Chinese Information Processing (Beijing), vol.3, 1999.
7. Valency-based Chinese Semantic Dictionary, In Yuyan Wenzi Yingyong (Beijing), vol.1, 2000.
8. An Overview of Researches in the Field of Chinese Information Processing Since 1980's, In Contemporary Linguistics (Beijing), vol.2, 2000.
9. The Principles of Setting Up A Semantic Category System, In Shi Jie Han Yu Jiao Xue (Beijing), vol.2, 2001.

CONFERENCE PAPER:

1. The Application of Semantic Classification of Chinese Words in A Chinese-English Machine Translation System, Presented in the Forth JSCL Conference (Aug. 15-17, 1997, Tsinghua University, Beijing), Published in the Proceedings of the Conference, Tsinghua Univ. Press, 1997. pp286-291.
2. The Application of A Linguistic Model Based on Chinese Phrase-Standard Grammar in A Chinese-English Machine Translation System, Presented in the Third Chinese Academic Conference on Computer Intelligence Interface and Application (1997, Zhang-Jia-Jie, Hunan Province), Published in the Proceedings of the Conference, Publishing House of Electronics Industry, 1997. pp224-229.
3. Combination of Linguistic Elements and Variation of Function, Presented in '98 International Conference on Modern Chinese Grammar (Aug. 1998, Peking University, Beijing), Published in the Proceedings of the Conference, Modern Chinese Grammar Studies Meeting Challenge of the New Century, Shandong Education Publishing House, 2000.pp823-833.
4. A Framework of Chinese Semantic Representation: Generalized Valence Mode, Presented in the Fifth JSCL Conference (Nov. 1-3, 1999, Beijing), Published in the Proceedings of the Conference, Tsinghua Univ. Press. 1999. pp1-7.
5. Overview on Development of Chinese Semantic Knowledge Base in 20th Century, Presented in the Conference on Prospect of Studies on Chinese Grammar in 21st Century (Aug. 2000, Tsinghua University, Beijing).
6. Unification-based Chinese Phrase Structure Rules, Presented in the 11th Conference on Modern Chinese Grammar (Oct. 8-10, 2000, Wuhu, Anhui Province.).
7. The Principles of Setting Up A Semantic Category System, Presented in the First International Conference on Modern Chinese Grammar For The New Millennium (Feb. 1-3, 2001, City University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong).
8. A Chinese Semantic Lexicon Based On Constraints of Word Collocation, Presented in the Second Workshop on Chinese Lexical Semantics (May. 14-18, 2001, Beijing)