How Can Generative AI Improve Scholarly Search and Recommendation? When asking Lumen this question, the most surprising part is often not the answer itself, but how it connects ideas across disciplines, decades, and languages to form an unexpected “knowledge diffusion map.” In a single search, Lumen may move from AI papers to philosophy, communication studies, [...]
AI is no longer reshaping technology alone—it is also transforming research in the Humanities and Social Sciences (HSS) The AIDH Database (AI x Digital Humanities) serves as a research gateway within the Taiwan Academic Classics (TAC) platform, integrating AI-assisted translation, search, and Lumen’s extended discovery functions. Curated from journals across 16 countries in Asia, Europe, [...]
When every AI can generate answers,the real question is──Can you trust them? In an era where AI tools are rapidly proliferating, the key is no longer whether answers can be generated, but: • Are they reliable? • Do they demonstrate scholarly depth? • Can they support further research? Lumen, the academic AI research assistant developed by UDP from Taiwan [...]
From the state-building experiments in the Chinese Communist revolutionary base areas of the 1930s, to the mass mobilization portrayed in political cartoons of the 1950s, and further to media observations during the integration of East and West Germany—these three rare archives on the Chinese Communist movement and socialism take you back to the critical historical [...]
Showcasing Multilingual Retrieval Technology: Bringing Cultural Knowledge to Life From September 10 to 12, 2025, United Digital Publications (UDP) was honored to participate in the European Association of Sinological Librarians (EASL) Annual Conference in London. The event gathered leading scholars and librarians from across Europe, offering a unique platform to highlight the evolving role of [...]
Shaping the Academic Landscape of the Asian Century! UDP launches Taiwan and Asia’s Select HSS Journals—a curated collection of 400 rare and distinctive titles from 15 Asian and 5 Western countries—resources often absent from major international content platforms and otherwise scattered across OA or institutional sites, sometimes available only through local or limited circulation, making [...]
Doing cross-cultural research but struggling with language gaps? The Taiwan Academic Classics (TAC) platform now offers an exclusive Multilingual Translation & Search tool to help you see beyond single-cultural perspectives. Imagine instantly understanding a Ukrainian-language paper comparing how Hong Kong and Taiwan media frame “China”—offering fresh Eastern European insights beyond the scope of most Chinese-language [...]
https://youtu.be/Ll4xFPEwcXY Multilingual Browsing Supports multiple languages including English, German, French, Japanese, and Korean. Users can switch the browsing language via the “language” button on the interface (default is the original text). By selecting the option from the dropdown menu, users can change the display language of the platform interface, including the database menu, search [...]
Under the support of the TAP (Taiwan as a Pioneer) project funded by the German Federal Ministry of Education and Research (BMBF), the Taiwan Studies Center at Ruhr University Bochum’s Department of East Asian Studies hosted the workshop […]
UDP's clientele come from whole world, with high ambitions and dedicated to promoting Sinology research. Hong Kong as a major hub for Sinology research, has always been of significant importance. During this trip, business manager Wei Zhi visited several institutions, including the Chinese University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong Polytechnic University, City University of Hong [...]
