Founded in 1980 by Prof. Tianshun Yao and now led by Prof. Jingbo Zhu, Natural Language Processing Laboratory at Northeastern University (NEU-NLPLab), located in Shenyang China, has long been involved in the research of computational linguistics, focusing on language parsing, text mining, and machine translation etc.

After over two decades' sustained work by its talented staff and students, NEU-NLPLab ranks among the top notch research bases with its high international prestige, advanced theoretical research and well-established industrial development capabilities.

Our research covers a range of topics in natural language processing, including:

Machine Translation: Our current work in MT is focused on phrase-based and syntax-based SMT, involving string-to-tree and tree-to-string SMT. We have also studied example-based and pattern-based MT, and document-level translation techniques.

Language Parsing: Our work in this area includes segmentation, POS tagging, chunking, semantic role labeling, relation extraction, syntactic parsing and semantic parsing.

Text Mining: In this area we are focusing on text segmentation, classification, sentiment analysis and opinion mining, patent retrieval and mining, summarization, IE, and ontology learning.