Natural Language Processing (NLP) is a technology that uses computers as tools to process and manipulate various forms of human language, including written and spoken language. It is an important discipline in the fields of computer science and artificial intelligence, and it intersects with disciplines such as linguistics, psychology, neuroscience, robotics, and machine learning. NLP is one of the core tasks in achieving artificial general intelligence. The goal of NLP research is to develop general natural language processing technology that exhibit high accuracy, efficiency, robustness, interpretability, and adaptability in low-resource and multi-modal environments.

The main research topics include: natural language semantic analysis techniques, large-scale pre-trained language models, and their semantic representation methods, which are fundamental tasks in natural language processing; information extraction, knowledge graph construction, sentiment analysis, and opinion extraction, which are tasks in natural language understanding; document summarization, text generation, and cross-modal content generation, which are tasks in natural language generation; question answering, dialogue systems, and multi-modal interaction, which are tasks in natural language and multi-modal interaction; and innovative technology development for text mining, intelligent knowledge services, and machine writing in application domains.