Contemporary Education and Teaching Research 2737-4203 2737-4335 BONI FUTURE DIGITAL PUBLISHING CO.,LIMITED https://ojs.bonfuturepress.com/index.php/CETR/article/view/1972 7 2 2026 2026-02-26 From “Textual Interpretation” to “Cognitive Infrastructure”: The Data-Driven Transformation and Paradigm Reconstruction in Country and Regional Studies for the Digital Age — With a Strategic Value Analysis of Multilingual Open Source INTelligence (OSINT) Data Annotation Hang Dong* At a historical juncture when Artificial Intelligence Generated Content (AIGC) is profoundly reshaping global knowledge production and the landscape of geopolitical analysis, traditional area studies confront a dual crisis: the declining explanatory power of qualitative paradigms and a “knowledge supply crisis” mediated by algorithmic systems. This paper argues that area studies must undergo a paradigmatic transformation—from “linguistic mediation” to “semantic governance,” and from tacit experiential knowledge to the construction of “semantic infrastructure.” By conceptualizing high-quality data annotation as both a confirmation of semantic rights and the building of cognitive infrastructure, the study proposes an integrated framework encompassing ontology construction, semantic alignment, and domain-specific evaluation. Through this engineering-oriented architecture, unstructured regional knowledge can be transformed into structured data assets. Driven by a dual-engine model integrating “United Nations normative corpora” and “Open Source INTelligence (OSINT),” area studies can evolve from post hoc interpretation toward a decision-support paradigm characterized by real-time perception, structured computation, and scenario simulation. Such a transformation will consolidate the epistemic foundations of China’s autonomous knowledge system and safeguard national cognitive sovereignty. country and regional studies,data annotation,semantic governance,nternational communication,new liberal arts,ESG,industry–education integration 10.61360/BoniCETR262019720204

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