{"id":7145,"date":"2021-02-21T22:17:01","date_gmt":"2021-02-21T14:17:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.fst.um.edu.mo\/personal\/?page_id=7145"},"modified":"2026-01-30T12:08:13","modified_gmt":"2026-01-30T04:08:13","slug":"honors","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.fst.um.edu.mo\/personal\/derek-wong\/honors\/","title":{"rendered":"Derek Wong &#8211; Honors"},"content":{"rendered":"\t\t<div data-elementor-type=\"wp-page\" data-elementor-id=\"7145\" class=\"elementor elementor-7145\" data-elementor-post-type=\"page\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<section data-particle_enable=\"false\" data-particle-mobile-disabled=\"false\" class=\"elementor-section elementor-top-section elementor-element elementor-element-6daac32 elementor-section-boxed elementor-section-height-default elementor-section-height-default\" data-id=\"6daac32\" data-element_type=\"section\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-container elementor-column-gap-default\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-column elementor-col-100 elementor-top-column elementor-element elementor-element-a294276\" data-id=\"a294276\" data-element_type=\"column\">\n\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-wrap elementor-element-populated\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-3f52f7e elementor-widget elementor-widget-spacer\" data-id=\"3f52f7e\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"spacer.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-spacer\">\n\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-spacer-inner\"><\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/section>\n\t\t\t\t<section data-particle_enable=\"false\" data-particle-mobile-disabled=\"false\" class=\"elementor-section elementor-top-section elementor-element elementor-element-dd63060 elementor-section-boxed elementor-section-height-default elementor-section-height-default\" data-id=\"dd63060\" data-element_type=\"section\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-container elementor-column-gap-default\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-column elementor-col-33 elementor-top-column elementor-element elementor-element-a88c871\" data-id=\"a88c871\" data-element_type=\"column\" data-settings=\"{&quot;background_background&quot;:&quot;classic&quot;}\">\n\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-wrap elementor-element-populated\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-5db6c77 elementor-widget elementor-widget-spacer\" data-id=\"5db6c77\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"spacer.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-spacer\">\n\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-spacer-inner\"><\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-54a7cb5 elementor-widget elementor-widget-image\" data-id=\"54a7cb5\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"image.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"597\" height=\"614\" src=\"https:\/\/www.fst.um.edu.mo\/personal\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/08\/Untitled-3.png\" class=\"attachment-full size-full wp-image-3983\" alt=\"\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.fst.um.edu.mo\/personal\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/08\/Untitled-3.png 597w, https:\/\/www.fst.um.edu.mo\/personal\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/08\/Untitled-3-292x300.png 292w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 34.9rem) calc(100vw - 2rem), (max-width: 53rem) calc(8 * (100vw \/ 12)), (min-width: 53rem) calc(6 * (100vw \/ 12)), 100vw\" \/>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-5ee0636 elementor-widget elementor-widget-heading\" data-id=\"5ee0636\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"heading.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<h2 class=\"elementor-heading-title elementor-size-default\">Derek F. 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class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-4b50d3e elementor-widget elementor-widget-heading\" data-id=\"4b50d3e\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"heading.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<h3 class=\"elementor-heading-title elementor-size-default\"><a href=\"#Honors\">Honors and Awards<\/a><\/h3>\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-63369ca elementor-widget elementor-widget-text-editor\" data-id=\"63369ca\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"text-editor.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<ul><li><strong>University-level<\/strong>\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.um.edu.mo\/news-and-press-releases\/press-release\/detail\/58431\/\"><em>Teaching Excellence Award<\/em><\/a> 2023\/2024, University of Macau, 2024.<\/li><li><em>FST <a href=\"https:\/\/www.fst.um.edu.mo\/news\/faculty-of-science-and-technology-presents-the-2023-2024-teaching-excellence-award-and-research-excellence-award\/\">Teaching Excellence Award<\/a><\/em> 2023\/2024, University of Macau, 2024.<\/li><li><em>Excellence Award<\/em>, Tencent AI Lab Rhino-Bird Research Program 2023.<\/li><li><em>The Second Prize of the Technological Invention Award<\/em>, <strong>Macao Science and Technology Award<\/strong> <strong>2022<\/strong>.\u00a0<\/li><li>2021\/2022 <em>Incentive Scheme for Outstanding Academic Staff<\/em>, presented by the University of Macau Development Foundation (UMDF) of the University of Macau (UM), 2022.<\/li><li><em>FST Research Excellence Award<\/em>, presented by the Faculty of Science and Technology (FST) of the University of Macau (UM), 2022.<\/li><li><em>FST Teaching Excellence Award<\/em> 2017\/2018, University of Macau, 2018.<\/li><li><em>The Second Prize of Macau Science and Technology Progress Award<\/em>, <strong>Macao Science and Technology Award 2012<\/strong>.<\/li><\/ul>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-3b30411 elementor-widget elementor-widget-menu-anchor\" data-id=\"3b30411\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"menu-anchor.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-menu-anchor\" id=\"Shared\"><\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-8a29124 elementor-widget elementor-widget-heading\" data-id=\"8a29124\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"heading.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<h3 class=\"elementor-heading-title elementor-size-default\"><a href=\"#Honors\">Shared Tasks<\/a><\/h3>\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-ac59fa5 elementor-widget elementor-widget-text-editor\" data-id=\"ac59fa5\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"text-editor.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<ul><li>Ranked 1st in Discourse-Level Literary Translation, <em>The Ninth Conference on Machine Translation<\/em> (<a href=\"https:\/\/aclanthology.org\/2024.wmt-1.58\/\">WMT 2024<\/a>), 2024<\/li><li>Ranked 1st in Machine Translation \u2013 Quality Estimation on Multilingual\/English-Russian Translation Systems,<em> The Seventh Machine Translation Conference<\/em>\u00a0(<a href=\"https:\/\/www.statmt.org\/wmt22\/\">WMT 2022<\/a>), 2022<\/li><li>Ranked 2nd in Machine Translation \u2013 Quality Estimation on English-German and Chinese-English Translation Systems,<em> The Seventh Machine Translation Conference<\/em>\u00a0(<a href=\"https:\/\/www.statmt.org\/wmt22\/\">WMT 2022<\/a>), 2022<\/li><li>Ranked 1st in Machine Translation \u2013 Evaluation Metrics on Chinese-English\/Czech-English\/German-English\/Japanese-English Translation Systems,<em> The Sixth Machine Translation Conference<\/em>\u00a0(<a href=\"https:\/\/www.statmt.org\/wmt21\/\">WMT 2021<\/a>), 2021<\/li><li>Ranked 2nd in Machine Translation \u2013 Evaluation Metrics on Hausa-English and Icelandic-English Translation Systems,<em> The Sixth Machine Translation Conference<\/em>\u00a0(<a href=\"https:\/\/www.statmt.org\/wmt21\/\">WMT 2021<\/a>), 2021<\/li><li>Ranked 3rd in Dialog System, <em>CCF Big Data &amp; Computing Intelligence Contest <\/em>(<a href=\"https:\/\/www.datafountain.cn\/special\/BDCI2021-360\">CCF BDCI<\/a>), China, 2021<\/li><li>Ranked 1st and 2nd for Chinese-English Newswires Translation, <em>The 13th China Workshop on Machine Translation<\/em> (<a href=\"http:\/\/ee.dlut.edu.cn\/CWMT2017\/index_en.html\">CWMT 2017<\/a>), Dalian, China, 2017<\/li><li>Ranked 2nd in Chinese-English\/English-Chinese Newswires Translation, <em>The 11th China Workshop on Machine Translation<\/em> (<a href=\"http:\/\/www.ai-ia.ac.cn\/cwmt2015\/index.html\">CWMT 2015<\/a>), Anhui, China, 2015<\/li><li>Ranked 1st in English-German\/Czech-English\/French-English Medical Translation, <em>The 9th Workshop on Machine Translation<\/em> (<a href=\"http:\/\/www.statmt.org\/wmt14\/medical-task\/\">WMT 2014<\/a>), Baltimore, Maryland, USA, 2014<\/li><li>Ranked 2nd in German-English\/English-Czech\/English-French Medical Translation, <em>The 9th Workshop on Machine Translation<\/em> (<a href=\"http:\/\/www.statmt.org\/wmt14\/medical-task\/\">WMT 2014<\/a>), Baltimore, Maryland, USA, 2014<\/li><li>Ranked 3rd in Grammatical Error Correction, <em>The 7th Conference on Computational Natural Language Learning<\/em> (<a href=\"http:\/\/www.clips.ua.ac.be\/conll2013\/\">CoNLL-2013<\/a>), Sofia, Bulgaria, 2013<\/li><li>Ranked 2nd in Machine Translation \u2013 Evaluation Metrics on English to French, German, Spanish, Czech and Russian Translation Systems,<em> The 8th Workshop on Machine Translation<\/em> (<a href=\"http:\/\/statmt.org\/wmt13\/\">WMT 2013<\/a>), Sofia, Bulgaria, 2013<\/li><li>Ranked 2nd in Traditional Chinese Parsing, <em>The 2nd CIPS-SIGHAN Joint Conference on Chinese Language Processing<\/em> (<a href=\"http:\/\/www.cipsc.org.cn\/clp2012\/task2.html\">CLP2012<\/a>), Tianjin, China, 2012<\/li><li>Ranked 2nd in Chinese Personal Name Disambiguation, <em>The 2nd CIPS-SIGHAN Joint Conference on Chinese Language Processing<\/em> (<a href=\"http:\/\/www.cipsc.org.cn\/clp2012\/task2.html\">CLP2012<\/a>), Tianjin, China, 2012<\/li><\/ul>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-046b660 elementor-widget elementor-widget-menu-anchor\" data-id=\"046b660\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"menu-anchor.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-menu-anchor\" id=\"Supervised\"><\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-fa13731 elementor-widget elementor-widget-heading\" data-id=\"fa13731\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"heading.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<h3 class=\"elementor-heading-title elementor-size-default\"><a href=\"#Honors\">Supervised Projects<\/a><\/h3>\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-fe9a75b elementor-widget elementor-widget-text-editor\" data-id=\"fe9a75b\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"text-editor.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<ul><li>WeSpeak: Web Based Simultaneous Interpretation System, 2024<ul><li>FST Dean List, <em>Faculty of Science and Technology, University of<\/em><\/li><\/ul><\/li><li>Xuebo Liu, Outstanding Doctoral Dissertation Nomination Award, <em>Chinese Information Processing Society of China<\/em>, 2023<\/li><li>iSpeak: A Text-to-Speech System for Cantonese, 2023<ul><li>FST Dean List, <em>Faculty of Science and Technology, University of Macau<\/em><\/li><\/ul><\/li><li>Yu Sheng: AI Poem Writing, 2022<ul><li>Champion, <em>IEEE Project Codmpetition<\/em>, Macao, China<\/li><li>Third Prize, <em>IEEE Industrial Electronics Society<\/em> (IES) <em>Undergraduate Contest<\/em>, Macau, China<\/li><li>First Prize, <em>The 17th Pan-Pearl River Delta Region Universities IT Project Competition<\/em>, China<\/li><li>Third Prize, &#8220;Sharing Cup&#8221; <em>Innovation Competition of Science and Technology Resources Sharing Service<\/em>, China<\/li><li>FST Dean List, <em>Faculty of Science and Technology, University of Macau<\/em><\/li><\/ul><\/li><li>UMor-PG: The Intelligent Chatbot for Postgraduate Admission Information! 2022<ul><li>FST Dean List, <em>Faculty of Science and Technology, University of Macau<\/em><\/li><\/ul><\/li><li>Xuebo Liu, Scientific and Technological R&amp;D Award for Postgraduates, <em>Macau Science and Technology Award<\/em>, 2022<\/li><li>Candarin: Can You Read Cantonese? Candarin Can Help! 2021<ul><li>Third Prize, <em>IEEE Industrial Electronics Society<\/em> (IES) <em>Undergraduate Contest<\/em>, Macau, China<\/li><li>Third Prize,\u00a0<em>IEEE Project Competition<\/em>, Macao, China<\/li><li>FST Dean List and Best of the Best, <em>Faculty Science and Technology, University of Macau<\/em><\/li><\/ul><\/li><li>Baosong Yang, Scientific and Technological R&amp;D Award for Postgraduates, <em>Macau Science and Technology Award<\/em>, 2020<\/li><li>UMor: A UM Chatbot, 2020<ul><li>First Prize, <em>The UM Mobile APP Development Competition<\/em><\/li><li>Second Prize,\u00a0<em>IEEE Industrial Electronics Society<\/em> (IES) <em>Undergraduate Contest<\/em>, Macau, China<\/li><li>Third Prize,\u00a0<em>IEEE Project Competition<\/em>, Macao, China<\/li><li>Third Prize, <em>Pan-Pearl River Delta Region Universities IT Project Competition<\/em><\/li><li>FST Dean List, <em>Faculty Science and Technology, University of Macau<\/em><\/li><\/ul><\/li><li><em>i<\/em>Learner: An Intelligent e-Learning Platform for Teaching &amp; Learning, 2019<ul><li>FST Dean List, <em>Faculty of Science and Technology, University of Macau<\/em><\/li><\/ul><\/li><li>Automatic Generation of Test Questions for Language Learning, 2018<ul><li>FST Dean List, <em>Faculty of Science and Technology, University of Macau<\/em><\/li><\/ul><\/li><li>UM-<em>i<\/em>Method2: Chinese-Portuguese Translation Oriented Interactive Input Method (IME) System, 2017<ul><li>FST Dean List, <em>Faculty of Science and Technology, University of Macau<\/em><\/li><\/ul><\/li><li><em>i<\/em>Commuter:\u00a0Railway Scheduling and Control System with Enhanced Route Management, 2016<ul><li>FST Dean List and Best of the Best, <em>Faculty Science and Technology, University of Macau<\/em><\/li><\/ul><\/li><li><em>i<\/em>Finger \u2013 Study of Gesture Recognition Technologies &amp; Its Applications, 2014<ul><li>First Prize, <em>IEEE Project Competition<\/em>, Macao, China<\/li><li>FST Dean List and Best of the Best, <em>Faculty Science and Technology, University of Macau<\/em><\/li><\/ul><\/li><li><em>i<\/em>Interact \u2013 Study of Eye Tracking Technologies and Its Applications, 2012<ul><li>First Prize, <em>Amway Pan-Pearl River Delta Region Universities IT Project Competition<\/em>, Chongqing, China (340 projects from 200 universities)<\/li><li>Creativity Prize, <em>Amway Pan-Pearl River Delta Region Universities IT Project Competition<\/em>, Chongqing, China (340 projects from 200 universities)<\/li><li>Merit of Tertiary Award, <em>Asia Pacific Information and Communications Technology Awards<\/em> (APICTA), Brunei Darussalam (156 nominations from 16 countries)<\/li><li>Merit Award, <em>Macau Information and Communications Technology Awards<\/em> (MICTA), Macao, China<\/li><li>First Prize, <em>IEEE Project Competition<\/em>, Macao, China<\/li><li>FST Dean List, <em>Faculty of Science and Technology, University of Macau<\/em><\/li><\/ul><\/li><li>CanSpeak \u2013 Cantonese Text to Speech System, 2012<ul><li>Second Prize, <em>IEEE Project Competition<\/em>, Macao, China<\/li><li>FST Dean List and Best of the Best, <em>Faculty Science and Technology, University of Macau<\/em><\/li><\/ul><\/li><li>Cyclops II: Snapshot Mobile Translation System Based on Thin Client-Server Architecture, 2012<ul><li>FST Dean List, <em>Faculty of Science and Technology, University of Macau<\/em><\/li><\/ul><\/li><li>KERST \u2013 Cantonese-to-English Real-Time Speech Translation System, 2011<ul><li>FST Dean List, <em>Faculty of Science and Technology, University of Macau<\/em><\/li><\/ul><\/li><li><em>i<\/em>TagIt! Automatic Image Annotation System, 2010<ul><li>First Prize, <em>IEEE Project Competition<\/em>, Macao, China<\/li><\/ul><\/li><li>Compact OCR Based on Peripheral Direction Contributivity and Its Application in Pocket Based Snapshot (Chinese) Translation (Cyclops), 2009<ul><li>Second Prize, <em>Amway Pan-Pearl Delta River Region Universities IT Project Competition<\/em>, Chongqing, China (out of 46 teams)<\/li><li>First Prize, <em>The 11th Challenge Cup \u2013 National Contest of College Students\u2019 Extracurricular Scientific and Technological Achievements<\/em>, China<\/li><li>Third Prize, <em>Macau Information and Communications Technology Awards<\/em> (MICTA), Macao, China<\/li><\/ul><\/li><li>English to Chinese Machine Translation based on Constraint Synchronous Grammar (CSG), 2006<ul><li>Second Prize, <em>Amway Pan-Pearl Delta River Region Universities IT Project Competition<\/em>, Guangzhou Computer Society, China (out of 44 teams)<\/li><li>Merit of Tertiary Student Project Category, <em>Asia Pacific Information and Communications Technology Awards<\/em> (APICTA), Macau<\/li><li>Third Prize, <em>Macau Information and Communications Technology Awards<\/em> (MICTA), Macao, China<br \/>Practicability Prize, <em>IEEE Project Competition<\/em>, Macao, China<\/li><\/ul><\/li><li>Pak Pak Serves You \u2013 Application on Interactive Dialogue and Answering (IDQA) System, 2005<ul><li>Third Prize, <em>The 11th Challenge Cup \u2013 National Contest of College Students\u2019 Extracurricular Scientific and Technological Achievements<\/em>, China<\/li><li>Second Prize, <em>IEEE Project Competition<\/em>, Macao, China<\/li><\/ul><\/li><\/ul>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/section>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Derek F. Wong Full Professor University of Macau NLP2CT Lab Home Honors and Awards Shared Tasks Supervised Projects Honors and Awards University-level\u00a0Teaching Excellence Award 2023\/2024, University of Macau, 2024. FST Teaching Excellence Award 2023\/2024, University of Macau, 2024. Excellence Award, Tencent AI Lab Rhino-Bird Research Program 2023. The Second Prize of the Technological Invention Award, &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.fst.um.edu.mo\/personal\/derek-wong\/honors\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Derek Wong &#8211; Honors&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":74,"featured_media":0,"parent":22626,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"elementor_canvas","meta":{"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"class_list":["post-7145","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fst.um.edu.mo\/personal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/7145","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fst.um.edu.mo\/personal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fst.um.edu.mo\/personal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fst.um.edu.mo\/personal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/74"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fst.um.edu.mo\/personal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7145"}],"version-history":[{"count":10,"href":"https:\/\/www.fst.um.edu.mo\/personal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/7145\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":57976,"href":"https:\/\/www.fst.um.edu.mo\/personal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/7145\/revisions\/57976"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fst.um.edu.mo\/personal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/22626"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fst.um.edu.mo\/personal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7145"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}