Yi-Chun Chen obtained his Ph.D. and M.S. degree from Computer Science and Engineering, Tatung University, Taipei, Taiwan. His research area includes natural language processing, zero anaphora resolution and discourse analysis in Chinese.

He was employed as a technical manager of SimpleAct Inc. from Aug. 2000 to Oct. 2004. In SimpleAct, he worked on the NLP related applications such as question-answering system, e-mail routing system, text retrieval system and so on. Besides, he was also in charge of helping the customers to build their knowledge base of customer service.