The National Print Media Language Resources Monitoring & Research Center was established in June 2004 as a joint research center between the Department of Language Information Management under the Ministry of Education and Beijing Language and Culture University. With scientific research at its core and language resource development as its foundation, the center is committed to serving the nation and society. It conducts organized scientific research, cultivates talent, and strives to advance the informatization of language and writing.
The center has long been engaged in interdisciplinary research in areas such as language monitoring and research, language information processing, social computing, and language education technology. To address the critical national needs for language resource monitoring and research, the center has continuously developed the Dynamic Circulating Corpus (DCC), establishing a high-quality, large-scale language resource that is updated in real time, systematically distributed across time, domain, and region, with correct form and secure content. This ensures the implementation of national language resource monitoring tasks: annually releasing surveys on media language usage; supporting the annual "Chinese Language Review" as well as year-end reviews in fields such as technology, education, and anti-corruption; providing a data foundation for the formulation of national language policies; and offering services for language life, language teaching, and language information processing.
On the basis of resource development, the Center has actively aligned with national tasks. It supported the development of the General Standard Chinese Character Table issued by the State Council and provided data extraction services for the Inter-ministerial Joint Conference on the Translation of Foreign Languages into Chinese. Under the guidance of the Department of Language Information Management, the Center developed the world’s first multilingual Winter Olympics term database and the Glossary of Winter Olympic Sports Terms, which played a significant role in the preparation and hosting of the 2022 Beijing Winter Olympics and earned a signed letter of appreciation from IOC President Thomas Bach. On the National Language Resources Service Platform, the Center established a language translation service section, innovatively achieving back-translation functionality and providing unique translation quality evaluation services.
The center focuses on the informatization of language and writing, conducting surveys and tracking of intelligent language life. It has submitted multiple policy advisory reports, which have received instructions or been adopted by the leaders of the Party and the state, as well as the Scientific Research Planning Leadership Group of the National Language Commission.
The center conducts research in areas such as textual content computing, intelligent-assisted language learning, value computing, and evaluation of language capabilities of large language models. It has developed distinctive language resource service platforms, including the "Wenxin" corpus retrieval platform, the Chinese text feature computing platform, and various evaluation datasets, which have garnered positive social feedback. Over the past five years, the center has published over 80 papers in top-tier international and domestic conferences, SCI/SSCI Zone 1 and 2 international journals, as well as domestic CSSCI and core journals. Additionally, it has obtained 12 patents.
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