第一次见到桂老师,是1996年夏天在广州的一次“互联网与外语教学研讨会”上,当时由导师杨惠中老师带着参会,开会的人不多,只有二三十人。杨老师称桂老师老桂,桂老师喊杨老师老杨,杨老师把我介绍给桂老师,说:“老桂,这是我的学生,学语料库语言学的”。已记不得当时跟桂老师说了些什么,只记得他很随和、亲切。但这却是跟桂老师结缘的开始。当年秋天,桂老师和杨老师主持的“中国学习者语料库”项目已经启动, The first time I met Mr. GUI, he was on the “Internet and Foreign Language Teaching Seminar” held in Guangzhou in the summer of 1996. At that time, there were not many people attending the meeting with the teacher TING Hui-chung. Only twenty or thirty people met. Yang teacher said Gui Gui Lao Gui, Gui teacher shouted Yang teacher Lao Yang, Yang introduced me to Gui teacher, said: “Lao Gui, this is my student, learn language corpus linguistics.” Can not remember what was told with the teacher Gui, just remember that he is very easy-going and cordial. But this is the beginning of marriage with Gui teacher. In the autumn of that year, the project of “Chinese Learner Corpus” under the auspices of Teacher Gui and Teacher Yang has started.