突然有一种紧迫感：再不上中文NLP，可能就错过时代机遇了

吴军's series are super popular. When I first read one of his articles on the Google Blackboard, recommended by a friend, I was amazed how well he structured and carried the content. It is intriguing. （边注：当然，他那篇谈 Page Rank 的文章有偏颇，给年轻人一种印象，IT 事业的成功是由技术主宰的，而实际上技术永远是第二位的。对于所谓高技术企业，没有技术是万万不行的，但企业成功的关键却不是技术，这是显而易见的事实了。）For me, to be honest, I do not aim that high.  Never bothered polishing things to pursue perfection although I did make an effort to try to link my stuffs into a series for the convenience of cross reference inside the related series. There are missing links which I know I want to write about but which sort of depends on my mood or time slots.  I guess I am just not pressed and motivated to do the writing part.  Popularizing the technology is only a side effect of the blogging hobby at times.  The way I prove myself is to show that I will be able to build products worth of millions, or even hundreds of millions of dollars.

网上的文字都是随兴之所至，我从来不写命题作文，包括我自己的命题。有时候兴趣来了，就说自己下一篇打算写什么什么，算是自我命题，算是动了某个话题的心思。可是过了两天，一个叉打过去，没那个兴致和时间了，也就作罢。

赶上什么写什么，这就是上网的心态。平时打工已经够累了，上网绝不给自己增加负担。

So far I have been fairly straightforward on what I write about.  If there is readability issue, it is mainly due to my lack of time.  Young people should be able to benefit from my writings especially once they start getting their hands dirty in building up a system.

Your discussion is fun. You can see and appreciate things hidden behind my work more than other readers.  After all, you have published in THE CL and you have almost terminated the entire segmentation as a scientific area. Seriously, it is my view that there is not much to do there after your work on tokenization both in theory and practice.

I feel some urgency now for having to do Chinese NLP asap.  Not many people have been though that much as what I have been (luckily), so I am in a position to potentially build a much more powerful system to make an impact on Chinese NLP, and hopefully on the IT landscape as well.  But time passes fast . That is why my focus is on the Chinese processing now, day and night.  I am keeping my hands dirty also with a couple of European languages, but they are less challenging and exciting.