News & Media Coverage
Latest updates, awards, and media features from the IISR Lab.
🏆 Highlights
2025
- BioASQ Champion (2020–2025) — six consecutive years as the top team.
- NSTC Future Tech Award — award recipient. Award
- npj Digital Medicine — LLMs for clinical de-identification & temporal normalization. Q1
- IJGIS — label-free historical map land-use understanding via unsupervised domain adaptation. Q1
- Digital Scholarship in the Humanities — computational analysis of Ming Shilu. Q1
- Database — data-centric ensemble learning for biomedical relation extraction. Q1
- Industry: TSMC — semiconductor-specific LLM for fab operation.
- Industry: Qualcomm — research collaboration agreement.
- Recognition: Google Research Award (2023–2024; continued impact into 2025 deployments).
- National-scale: National Central Library — AI semantic search engine for theses/dissertations.
- Public sector & education: teacher co-planning support with NARLabs/NCHC.
- Smart city: Taoyuan City Government pilot program.
2024
- ACL 2024 — Chat Vector.
- EMNLP 2024 — TWBias.
- COLING 2024 — Hokkien writing system standardization for dual translation.
- Google Research Award. Award
- Recognition: Taiwan AI 20 (CommonWealth Magazine).
- Award: Wu Ta-You Pop Sci Award — Youth Special Prize (for the middle-school AI book). Award
2023
- EMNLP 2023 — MingOfficial.
- Google Research Award. Award
- Continued BioASQ top performance.
2022
- Book published: 《寫給中學生看的AI課》.
📰 Media Coverage
2025-12-27
財團法人中技社 (CTCI Foundation)
中技社AI創意競賽 第二名：Ataigi學台語App
Second Place in CTCI AI Creative Competition: Ataigi Hokkien Learning App
在2025年12月27日舉行的中技社AI創意競賽中，我們的Ataigi學台語App項目榮獲第二名。該應用旨在使用生成式AI技術協助台語學習，特別針對低資源語言處理做出突破。
(Our project Ataigi Hokkien Learning App won second place, using GenAI to assist in learning Taiwanese Hokkien with breakthroughs in low-resource language processing.)
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2025-12-18
財團法人中技社 (CTCI Foundation)
生成式AI應用：從理解到落地 研討會紀要
Generative AI Applications: From Understanding to Implementation - Seminar Summary
中技社舉辦的生成式AI產業研討會邀請多位學界與業界專家分享技術趨勢與實務導入，其中蔡宗翰理事長（中華民國人工智慧學會）等專家出席並發表演講。
(CTCI hosted a seminar on GenAI trends and implementation, featuring a speech by President Richard Tzong-Han Tsai of the Taiwan Association for AI.)
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2025-10-29
聯合新聞網 (United Daily News)
15秒就能改一篇！教育部Write AI系統助力評閱高中作文
15 Seconds to Improve an Essay! MOE's Write AI System Assists Grading
教育部推動人工智慧技術於教育領域創新應用，Write AI 評閱工具能在約15秒內為教師提供作文結構建議和語意分析。該系統由國立中央大學資訊工程系蔡宗翰教授團隊共同參與研發與推廣。
(The MOE's Write AI tool, co-developed by Prof. Tsai's team at NCU, provides structural and semantic feedback on essays in 15 seconds, improving review efficiency.)
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