The Outstanding Research Award is given annually to distinguished Chinese individuals to recognize their excellent contribution in technology related fields, such as electronics, information science and communication. The number of awardees is limited to five Chinese from Taiwan, mainland China or oversea Chinese per year. Dr. Hsu was awarded the prize for his outstanding research contribution in natural language processing and biological literature mining. The GOING intelligent input method developed by Dr. Hsu, which is widely used in Taiwan, helps to popularize the use of Chinese computer in Taiwan. By combining the research experiences of computational theory and natural language processing, he was able to develop the most accurate protein secondary structure prediction algorithm. He also constructed the first automatic biological relation extraction system and leads the world in biological literature mining research.
