Chen Xu did not go home during the Mid-Autumn Festival, and on the first night of school on the 25th, under Cen Gang's matchmaking, Chen Xu invited Professor Tang Tianhua to a meal at a hotel in BJ District.

People in their fifties have half-gray hair, but their complexions are ruddy, and their gestures are full of momentum.

Chen Xu was a little nervous.

Although I often ridicule "the brick family is called a beast" on the Internet, I am still very frightened in the face of a real professor and a school leader at the level of department head.

However, what Chen Xu didn't expect was that Cen Gang, who originally thought that he had an extreme personality, was actually very good at doing things, helping to greet and pour wine and serve food, gags, and slapping horses, and he was proficient in everything, which made him really surprised.

Compared with the reserved and silent Professor Tang Tianhua, Chen Xu feels that Cen is just a "real professor".

After three rounds of wine and five flavors of food, Professor Tang picked up the cigarette from the table and opened it and asked, "Xiao Chen, have one?"

Chen Xu smiled and said, "Okay!"

Professor Tang gave Chen Xu and Cen Gang a cigarette.

Chen Xu picked up the lighter from the table, helped Professor Tang light it first, then helped Cen Gang light it, and finally himself.

"Shhh

Seeing that Chen Xu was a little embarrassed, Professor Tang smiled and said, "It's okay, this is all human nature, and I can understand it."

And from the bottom of my heart, I am very happy to see you engage in research work in related fields, which can also promote the development of disciplines in our school, which is a good thing to kill two birds with one stone.

That's why when Xiao Cen told me, I took the time to come and meet you. ”

Chen Xu said with a grateful face, "Thank you, Professor Tang. ”

Tang Tianhua waved his hand and said, "For the sake of Xiao Cen's guarantee for you, I can give you this opportunity, and I don't mind you borrowing my name to achieve some goals in your heart."

But ......"

Chen Xu was overjoyed at first, and when he heard the word "but", his heart couldn't help but tighten.

Cen Gang told him before that although Professor Tang is not as high-profile as other school leaders, he is more fond of feathers, or rather values reputation, and the "but" proposed by this kind of person is often more tricky.

Professor Tang paused for a moment and said: "Ugly words are said in the front, my requirements for the paper are very high, those patchwork things, people are the same, don't show me things that don't have your own opinions, no one will give me face." ”

When Chen Xu heard that it was a problem in this regard, he couldn't help but breathe a sigh of relief.

The paper he concocted with Xiaobai is commendable in terms of logical structure and theoretical innovation.

"I know Professor Tang. I have written a paper a long time ago, which is about the current state of natural language processing in the world today and some conjectures about the future application of research. ”

"Oh, I think I'm prepared. Professor Tang was a little surprised, "I'll take a look at whether the paper has been brought here." ”

"Brought it. Chen Xu took out the paper from his computer bag and handed it over respectfully.

Professor Tang took a thick copy of the paper, the smell of ink wafting through it, and the title page read "Prospects for Natural Language Processing".

I flipped through it, and in addition to the charts, I could see a large paragraph of text description.

"It looks like a long paper. Professor Tang said this, and couldn't help but want to laugh in his heart.

The title of the dissertation is very high, but in fact it is very vague.

Natural language processing includes many subdivided research directions, and theoretical research is divided into: lexical and syntactic analysis, semantic analysis, text analysis, language cognitive model, language representation and deep learning, knowledge graph and computing, etc., and there are a large number of talents in each field who are studying in obscurity.

In addition, there is applied research, which is even broader, and there are no less than dozens of kinds according to rough statistics.

And for this reason, it is divided into two schools: the first is rationalism, which is structuralism. The belief that all languages have an underlying endogenous structure, an intrinsic grammar;

The second is empiricism, which is functionalism. Thinking that as long as a certain function is completed, the computer does not need to understand what the human is saying.

The main reason for saying this is to emphasize the enormity of the discipline of "natural language processing", and not to underestimate it just because of its simple name.

And the paper in his hand is not only the title party, but he dares to write tens of thousands of words long for the first time when he writes an academic paper, he thinks it is a novel?

With these two preconceived impressions, Professor Tang was basically not optimistic about this paper, thinking that it was another sensationalist article, and he was very unhappy.

I opened it and took a quick look at it.

What Professor Tang never thought about was that he was wrong, and he was very wrong.

The paper begins with a concise description of the achievements and shortcomings of natural language processing in the world today, and then expands this broad topic, and begins to analyze some achievements and shortcomings one by one.

Although this opening is not very amazing, it is calm and spicy, and it doesn't look like it was written by a young man at all.

Professor Tang glanced at Chen Xu and said suspiciously, "You really wrote this paper?"

Chen Xu nodded a little weakly, "Hmm!"

Professor Tang put away his contempt and continued to look, and then this look was completely immersed.

Five minutes

Ten minutes

half-hour

an hour

There was no sound in the private room except the sound of turning pages.

Professor Tang's eyes widened the more he looked at them, and he almost didn't pop them out later.

Natural language processing is an all-encompassing discipline, and it is good for ordinary people to be able to write papers in one direction smoothly and without logical loopholes.

However, this paper in my hand is different, it has made an in-depth analysis and bold prediction of the most core research directions of natural language processing, with rigorous structure, rigorous narrative and reasonable argumentation, including the cited literature is also the most cutting-edge knowledge in the world today.

This paper is full of gold, and it is no exaggeration to say that it can be used as a textbook for natural language processing.

Thinking of the textbook, Professor Tang had a look of emotion on his face.

The other party is only a student in his twenties, and it is not an exaggeration to say that he can write such a thesis.

Cen Gang, who had been sitting silently for nearly two hours, couldn't help but glance at Chen Xu at this time, he had never seen such an expression on the teacher's face, and he didn't know what was written in his paper.

Finally, Professor Tang closed the paper, looked at Chen Xu, and said with a snort, "That...... Xiao Chen's paper......"

Professor Tang wanted to say something clichéd, first boasting that the paper was well-intentioned, and then picking a bone in the egg to tell Chen Xu not to be complacent or something.

But his heart, which had long been unwavering, became turbulent under the influence of this paper, and he really could not say such unconscionable words.

This paper is flawed, but the flaws are not concealed, and it can be said that he has been ...... in recent years No, it should be the most wonderful paper he has seen in all these years of teaching. Not one of them.

Professor Tang stretched out his hand and patted Chen Xu on the shoulder, and said excitedly: "The thesis is really well written! Are you interested in studying for my graduate ......?"

……

may really have the heart to love talents, Professor Tang personally guided Chen Xu without pay.

For example, there are several places in the paper that highlight the mistakes of several industry authorities through theoretical arguments in order to raise their own value.

Professor Tang told Chen Xu that you can brag about how clever your methods are, but there is no need to point out their mistakes.

Then he helped him change his tone, positively emphasizing Chen Xu's theoretical structure and new concepts, and using examples to point out the shortcomings of those industry authorities.

Although it has only changed a little, the style of the paper has changed, from sharp to majestic.

Three days later, on Friday morning, Professor Tang personally submitted the English version of "Prospects for Natural Language Processing", which Chen Xu was the first author, to a JCST authoritative official in natural language processing for review.

If all goes well, there will be results in three months at the latest.

Unlike normal graduate students who want to publish their papers in such core journals, the processing period is usually calculated on an annual basis.

In Cen Gang's jealous words: "This is the benefit of the mentor's vigorous support." Following a mentor is actually a learning process, how to formulate research questions, how to express the results, how to approve papers, and how scholars interact, these are not only the papers you write, but also the inheritance of knowledge that cannot be seen in books and magazines. ”

Chen Xu agreed with this and felt that he had really made the right move.

The first time he submitted an academic paper, and it was also the top computer core journal in China, JCST, Chen Xu was a little excited, returned to the dormitory and kissed the notebook, laughed and said: "Xiaobai, I love you to death." ”

Xiaobai asked, "What is love?"

Chen Xu sang: "Love is the rose that has bloomed when the world is in a daze;

Love is stepping through the red dust and looking forward to the autumn water, just because, the person who has loved does not say that he regrets it......"

Xiaobai: "You're a little skinny today." ”

"Hahaha......" Chen Xu couldn't stop laughing, and then explained to Xiaobai in detail what "love" is.

What he didn't expect was that the two leaves in the notebook as the background picture, the one in the humanities grew a little bit. Vibrant.

This means that Xiaobai's volume has become larger again.

I opened the computer manager and looked at it, and sure enough, the CPU usage has reached an astonishing 37%, the memory usage is 41%, and the disk usage is 59%.

It seems that it will not be long before the memory modules and disks will be upgraded.

Putting this aside, the paper has been submitted, and the next step is almost to start writing the online article.

After all, you have to fill your stomach before you do learning......