Distinguished Research Fellow  |  Hsu, Wen-Lian       Software     Software Name: Bioinformatics Online Services Inventors: Hsu, Wen-Lian Country: Taiwan Date: 2000/01~2008/10 Abstract: Please visit the IASL Lab webpage: http://iasl.iis.sinica.edu.tw/research.htm   Software Name: Going Input Method(I)(going) Inventors: Hsu, Wen-Lian Country: 台灣 Date: 1999/01~2008/10 Abstract: Going Chinese input method is developed under cooperation between IQ-T and the Institute of Information, Academia Sinica in Taiwan. It relies on the tremendous semantic rules of the input content. Therefore, it enable users type the correct words at the first time without time-consuming job of selection. While typing, it can fix the possible typing mistakes automatically. Going input method has not only applied to phonetic Bopomofo input, but also to Cangjie input method （倉頡輸入法）and Dayi method.（大易輸入法） It won the prize of top ten most distinguished Chinese computer products in 1993. The practical edition of Going input method had been approved by the Ministry of Education as administrative usage of every educational institute. It has been downloaded over 1 million times since 1999.   Software Name: Polaris Financial Group Intelligent QA system Inventors: Hsu, Wen-Lian Country: Taiwan Date: 1998/01~2000/03 Abstract: Polaris Financial Group Intelligent QA system has been served online as customer service system since 1st March, 2000.   Software Name: Sinica QA system Inventors: Hsu, Wen-Lian Country: Taiwan Date: 1998/01~2008/10 Abstract: Sinica QA system provides various living information and important announcements of Academia Sinica. Website: http://qa.iis.sinica.edu.tw/   Software Name: HINET104 directory service system Inventors: Hsu, Wen-Lian Country: Taiwan Date: 1997/01~1998/07 Abstract: HINET104 directory service is online on 15th July 1998. It applies semantic filtering function to the search engine and serves as online assistance to Chunghwa Telecom.   Software Name: Going Input Method(II)(Open Chinese) Inventors: Hsu, Wen-Lian Country: 台灣 Date: 1994/01~1998/01 Abstract: GOING Chinese IME "GOING Chinese IME (also called Natural Chinese Input)" was originated from "Going Input" which was developed in 1990 by Dr. Wen-Lian Hsu of Acadamia Sinica of Taiwan, and is a Chinese input software built-in with artificial intelligence and rich Chinese semantic and lexicon database. After more than 10 years improvement, GOING Chinese IME has become a very popular and powerful Chinese input software in Taiwan and adopted by about 1.5 million users. It has always been the most popular commercial Chinese input product. 　 Having large amount of Chinese semantic and lexicon databases, GOING Chinese IME has gradually become a very important platform for learning and teaching Chinese. Students, teachers, the parents of children, compatriots living abroad, even foreigners choose GOING Chinese IME to learning Traditional Chinese. Allowing users to type Simplified Chinese in Traditional Chinese environment and Traditional Chinese in Simplified one, this input software is common used by alien workers, international companies, and various online surfers who often need to communicate with net friends from China. For the convenience of the old and disadvantaged people, "Magnified Input Window", "Real-time Voice Reading", and "Braille Output", "Chinese Input Method Editor with Auto Correction" functions, Chinese text input is much more efficient and output text is much more readable and the most important contribution is this software successfully assist visually impaired individuals, individuals with learning disabilities, ALS patients and any other handicapped individuals to overcome the obstacles on Chinese text input. The latest version is version 8 which released on April 28, 2005 and this project is ongoing.