Computational Linguistics: An Introduction  Lecturer: Zhan Weidong BBS
Email:zwd@pku.edu.cn  Tel:62765810 (office) Homepage

You are welcomed to the BBS to talk about any problem that arises in the course. Any suggestions or comments are also appreciated very much. 
Resources for this course

All lecture notes for this course are downloadable. 

#  Outline  Download (pdf format)
1 Preface, Arrangement of this course, Reference, etc.  Chapter_0
2 Introduction: what is computational linguistics?  Chapter_1
3 Formalization of linguistic knowledge, Formal language, automata/finite state transition network, feature structure, unification   Chapter_2
4 Modern Phrase Structure Grammar, Category-based grammar, Unification-based grammar  Chapter_3_1
5 Word-based grammar, TAG, dependency grammar, etc.  Chapter_3_2
6 Representation of semantic knowledge  Chapter_4_1
7 Semantic lexicons: WordNet, FrameNet, MindNet, EDR, etc.  Chapter_4_2
8 Discourse structure and discourse analysis  Chapter_5
9 Corpus linguistics  Chapter_6
10 Lexical analysis: tokenization, lemmatization, segmentation  Chapter_7_1
11 Lexical analysis: Part-Of-Speech tagging  Chapter_7_2
12 Lexical analysis: Word sense tagging or word sense disambiguation (WSD)  Chapter_7_3
13 Syntactic Parsing: ATN, Earley algorithm (Top-down parsing)  Chapter_8_1
14 Syntactic Parsing: Chart parsing, LR, Tomita algorithm  (Bottom-up parsing)  Chapter_8_2
15 Syntactic Parsing: PCFG, shallow parsing   Chapter_8_3
16 Machine Translation  Chapter_9
17  Information Retrieval  Chapter_10 
18 Information Extraction  
19 Text Categorization  

I would like to express my gratitude to the following
people who provided me with teaching materials and data
and shared their ideas and knowledge about computational
linguistics with me:

Prof. Yu Shiwen, 
Dr.Chang Baobao,
Dr.Yu Jiangsheng, 
Dr. Sun Bin,
Dr. Hu Junfeng, 
Dr.Zhang Huarui,  (ICL,PKU) 

AssProf. Liu Qun, 
AssProf. Wang Bin,
Prof. Bai Shuo,    (ICT, Academia Sinica) 

Dr. Zhou Qiang, Dr. Liu Yin (Tsinghua Univ.)

Thank you very much for your help and support