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

A man in his fifties has half gray hair, but his complexion is rosy and full of momentum in every move.

Chen Xu was a little nervous.

Although I often joke about "bricks are called beasts" online, I am still very scared when facing real professors and school leaders at the level of department chairs.

However, what Chen Xu didn't expect was that Cen Gang, who originally thought he was extremely arrogant, was very good at making trouble. He helped him pour wine and serve food, made jokes, flattered and swearing, and was proficient in everything, which surprised him.

As the saying goes, people should not behave like appearances, and the sea water should not be measured. Compared with Professor Tang Tianhua who was reserved and speechless, Chen Xu felt that Cen was just a "real professor".

After three rounds of wine and five flavors, Professor Tang picked up a cigarette from the table and opened it and asked, "Is there a little Chen?"

Chen Xuxiao said, "Okay!"

Professor Tang gave Chen Xu and Cen Gang a cigarette alone.

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

"Hiss" Professor Tang took a deep breath and said, "Xiao Chen, you come to me for the sake of the core journal, right?"

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 too.

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

So when Xiao Cen talked to me, I took the time to come and see you."

Chen Xu said with gratitude: "Thank you, Professor Tang."

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

but……"

Chen Xu was happy at first, and when he heard the word "but", he couldn't help but feel tighter.

Cen Gang told him before that although Professor Tang is not as arrogant as other school leaders, he is more cautious in his feathers or valued reputation. The "but" proposed by such people is often more tricky.

Professor Tang paused and said, "The ugly words are ahead. I have very high requirements for the paper. Those pieces together and follow the crowd. If you don't have any opinions, don't show me any face. No one can give me any face."

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

The papers he and Xiaobai fabricated together are remarkable in terms of logical structure and theoretical innovation.

"I know Professor Tang. I have written a paper long ago. It is some conjectures about the current development status of natural language processing in the world today and future application research."

"Oh, it seems that he is prepared." Professor Tang was a little surprised. "I'll take a look if you brought the paper here."

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

Professor Tang took a thick paper, which was filled with the fragrance of ink, and the title page read "Preview of Natural Language Processing".

After looking through it, in addition to the chart, you can see large paragraphs of text narratives.

"It seems to be a long paper." Professor Tang said, unable to help but want to laugh.

The title of the paper is very high-end, but it is actually very empty.

Natural language processing includes many subdivided research directions. Light theory research is divided into: lexical and syntactic analysis, semantic analysis, chapter analysis, language cognitive models, language representation and deep learning, knowledge graphs and calculations, etc. There are a large number of talents in each field studying unknown.

There are also applied research, which makes this even broader. If you have a rough count, you can't count dozens of them.

And it is divided into two schools for this purpose: the first is the rational school, which is structuralism. It believes that all languages ​​actually have potential endogenous structures and have internal grammar;

The second is the empirical school, which is functionalism. It is believed that as long as a certain function is completed, the computer does not need to understand what people say at all.

These are mainly to emphasize the vastness of the discipline of "natural language processing", and we cannot underestimate it just because of the simplicity of its name.

The paper in his hand is not only the title party, but he dared to write a long article of tens of thousands of words when he wrote an academic paper for the first time. He thought it was a novel?

With these two preconceived impressions, Professor Tang was basically not optimistic about this paper and thought it was another sensational article, and he was very displeased.

After opening it, I quickly browsed it.

What Professor Tang never thought was that he was wrong, and he was a big mistake.

The paper begins with a brief explanation of the achievements and shortcomings of the world in natural language processing today. Then, it extends this broad topic and starts to analyze it one by one through some achievements and shortcomings.

Although this opening is not very stunning, it is better to be calm and experienced, and it doesn't look like a young man at all.

Professor Tang glanced at Chen Xu and said suspiciously: "Did you really write this paper?"

Chen Xu nodded guiltily, "Yes!"

Professor Tang put away his contempt and continued to look at it, and then he was completely immersed in it.

Five minutes

Ten minutes

Half an hour

One hour

There is no other sound in the private room except for the sound of turning pages.

Professor Tang's eyes wider the more he looked, and then his eyes almost popped out.

Natural language processing is an all-encompassing discipline. Ordinary people can write papers in one direction smoothly, and it is good if there are no logical loopholes.

However, the paper in my hand is different. It conducts in-depth analysis and bold predictions on several of the most core research directions of natural language processing. It has a rigorous structure, a rigorous narrative, and a reasonable argument. The cited literature is also the most cutting-edge knowledge in the world today.

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

Thinking of the textbook, Professor Tang showed a moving look on his face.

The other party is just a student in his twenties. It is not an exaggeration to say that he can write such a paper.

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

Finally, Professor Tang put the paper together, looked at Chen Xu and stuttered and said, "That... Xiao Chen's paper..."

Professor Tang wanted to say something cliché, first praise the good intention of this paper, and then pick the bones in the eggs to prevent Chen Xu from being proud and complacent.

But his heart, which had long been unrest, became turbulent and ups and downs under the influence of this paper, and he really couldn't say such conscience-abiding words.

This paper has flaws, but the flaws do not hide the merits. It can be said that it is the most exciting paper he has seen in recent years... not right. It should be the most exciting paper he has seen in his teaching for so many years. None of them.

Professor Tang reached out and patted Chen Xu on the shoulder and said excitedly: "The paper is really great! Are you interested in studying for my graduate student..."

...

Maybe he really deserves the love of talent, Professor Tang personally guided Chen Xu regardless of reward.

For example, in order to increase one's own value, there are several mistakes in the paper that emphasize the mistakes of several authoritative industry leaders through theoretical arguments.

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 the tone, emphasized Chen Xu's theoretical structure and new concepts positively, and used examples to point out the shortcomings of those authoritative industry leaders.

Although it has only changed a little bit, the style of the paper has changed from being sharp and becoming magnificent.

On Friday morning three days later, Professor Tang personally submitted this article "Preview of Natural Language Processing" as the first author, and submitted it to a certain authoritative tycoon in natural language processing for review by JCST.

If everything goes well, there will be results at least three months.

Unlike normal graduate students who want to publish papers in such core journals, the review cycle is usually calculated annually.

In Cen Gang's jealous words, "This is the benefit of strong support from the tutor. Following the tutor is actually a learning process, researching how the problem is proposed, how the result should be expressed, how the paper is approved, and how scholars interact. These are all in addition to the papers you write, and are also intellectual heritage that cannot be seen in books and magazines."

Chen Xu agreed with this very much, feeling that his move was really right.

Chen Xu was a little excited when he submitted an academic paper for the first time, and he was also the top core computer journal in China. He was a little excited and returned to the dormitory and kissed him in his notebook. He laughed and said, "Xiaobai, I love you so much."

Xiaobai asked: "What is love?"

Chen Xu sang: "Love is the blooming rose when the world is in a daze;

Love is to walk through the world and look through the autumn water just because the people you have loved do not regret it…”

Xiaobai: "You're a little bit naughty today."

"Hahaha..." Chen Xu laughed uncontrollably, and then explained to Xiaobai in detail what "love" is.

What he didn't expect was that the two leaves on the notebook as the background picture, the leaf of the humanities grew a little bit brighter.

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

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

It seems that it won't take long to upgrade the memory stick and disk.

Putting aside this matter, the paper has been submitted, and we can almost start writing online articles next.
Chapter completed!