Abstract:[1]:[Background]There is a close relationship between academic research and industrial practice in the field of artificial intelligence, and research results flow between them. [Purpose/Significance]To reveal the distribution and evolution trend of technical methods in papers and patents in the field of natural language processing, and analyze the correlation and differences between them. [Methods/Process]Method ontology was constructed, papers and patents were mapped into ontology, and the lag of their knowledge evolution was verified by paired sample T-test. [Results/Conclusion] The paper and the patent have common technical methods, and the results of paired sample T test show that the patented technical methods lag behind the paper by about 1-2 years.