Course title

Computational Linguistics

Instructor

Yuyin He

Instructor’s profile

Dr. Yuyin He obtained her doctor degree from Communications University of China. Her research interests are computational linguistics and corpus linguistics.

Course goals

This course aims to provide students with the fundamentals of computational concepts and methods as these are applied to the study of natural language. Students will gain understanding of and experience with core techniques in English and Chinese natural language processing.

Topics

Topics to be covered in this course include overview of computational linguistics, automata and grammars, POS tagging systems, top-down and bottom-up parsing methods, syntactic formalisms, dependency grammar and Python NLTK Toolkit.

Assessment

Mid-term paper and final paper

Reference books

《計算語言學概論》，俞士汶主編，商務印書館，2003年9月第1版

《計算語言學與漢語自動分析》，侯敏，北京廣播學院出版社，1999年12月第1版

《計算語言學基礎》，馮志偉，商務印書館，2001年8月第1版

Jurafsky, D. & Martin, J. Speech and Language Processing, Prentice Hall, 2000, New Jersey.

Natural Language Processing with Python, Steve Bird, Ewan Klein & Eward Loper, O’Reilly, 2009;《Python自然語言處理》（影印版），東南大學出版社，2010

Working language

Mainly Chinese

Notes