<div dir="ltr"><div style="font-size:18px"><span style="font-size:12.8px">Sorry it was on 12:00 on Monday, Nov. 23th at 8102.</span></div><div style="font-size:18px"><span style="font-size:12.8px"><br></span></div><div style="font-size:18px"><span style="font-size:12.8px">Please join us for the next CL+NLP lunch</span><span style="font-size:12.8px"> at <b>12:00 on </b></span><b style="font-size:14px"><span style="font-size:12.8px">Nov</span></b><span style="font-size:12.8px"><b> 23</b></span><b style="font-size:12.8px"><span style="font-size:12.8px">th</span></b><span style="font-size:12.8px"><b> at </b></span><b style="font-size:12.8px">8102</b><span style="font-size:12.8px">,</span><br></div><div style="font-size:12.8px"><div style="font-size:13px"><span style="font-size:12.8px">where </span><span style="font-size:12.8px">Chu-Ren Huang</span> <span style="font-size:12.8px">will be speaking about <span style="font-size:13px">Chinese Language Processing</span>. </span></div><div style="font-size:12.8px"><span style="font-size:12.8px">Lunch</span><span style="font-size:12.8px"> will be </span><span style="font-size:12.8px">provided!</span></div><div style="font-size:13px"><br><span style="font-size:12.8px">------------------------------</span><span style="font-size:12.8px">-----------</span></div><div style="font-size:13px"><span style="font-size:12.8px">ML</span><span style="font-size:12.8px">+NLP </span><span style="font-size:12.8px">lunch</span></div><div style="font-size:13px"><b><span style="font-size:12.8px">Monday Nov <span style="font-size:13px">23</span>th at 1<span style="font-size:13px">2</span>:00</span></b></div><div style="font-size:13px"><span style="font-size:12.8px"><b>GHC 8102</b></span><br style="font-size:12.8px"><br style="font-size:12.8px"></div><div>What You Need to Know about Chinese for Chinese Language Processing</div><div><br></div><div>In this talk, I will introduce essential knowledge of Chinese linguistics encompassing both the fundamental knowledge of the linguistic structure of Chinese as well as explanations regarding how such knowledge of the language can be explored in Chinese language processing. The perspective will be synergetic, aiming to provide comprehensive knowledge of the linguistic characteristics of the Chinese language along with insights and case studies explaining how such knowledge can help language technology.</div><div> </div><div>The talk will be organized according to the structure of linguistic knowledge of Chinese, starting from the basic building block to the use of Chinese in context. The first part deals with characters (字) as the basic linguistic unit of Chinese in terms of phonology, orthography, and basic concepts. An ontological view of how the Chinese writing system organizes meaningful content as well as how this onomasiological decision affects Chinese text processing will also be discussed. The second part deals with words (词) and presents basic issues involving the definition and identification of words in Chinese, especially given the lack of conventional marks of word boundaries. The third part will focus on lemmatization and parts of speech (词类), underlining the unique challenges Chinese poses for lemmatization, as well as distributional properties of Chinese PoS and tagging systems. The fourth part deals with sentence and structure, focusing on how to identify grammatical relations in Chinese as well as a few Chinese-specific constructions. In each topic, an empirical foundation of linguistics facts are clearly explicated with a robust generalization, and the linguistic generalization is then accounted for in terms of its function in the knowledge representation system. Lastly this knowledge representation role is then exploited in terms of the aims of specific language technology tasks. In terms of references, in addition to language resources and various relevant papers, the tutorial will make reference to Huang and Shi’s (2016) reference grammar for linguistic description of Chinese.</div><div><br></div><div>Bio:</div><div>Chu-Ren Huang, 黄居仁, is a Chair Professor of Applied Chinese Language Studies, The Hong Kong Polytechnic University.</div><div>He is a President of Hong Kong Academy of the Humanities and a Permanent Member, International Committee on Computational Linguistics.</div><div>-----------------------------------------</div><div style="font-size:12.8px"><br></div><div style="font-size:12.8px">Best regards,</div><div style="font-size:12.8px">Kazuya</div></div></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Fri, Nov 20, 2015 at 11:59 AM, Kazuya Kawakami <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:www.kazuya.kawakami@gmail.com" target="_blank">www.kazuya.kawakami@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr">
<div style="font-size:18px"><span style="font-size:12.8px">Please join us for the next CL+NLP lunch</span><span style="font-size:12.8px"> at <b>12:00 on </b></span><b style="font-size:14px"><span style="font-size:12.8px">Nov</span></b><span style="font-size:12.8px"><b> 23</b></span><b style="font-size:12.8px"><span style="font-size:12.8px">th</span></b><span style="font-size:12.8px"><b> at </b></span><b style="font-size:12.8px">8102</b><span style="font-size:12.8px">,</span><br></div><div><div style="font-size:13px"><span style="font-size:12.8px">where </span><span style="font-size:12.8px">Chu-Ren Huang</span> <span style="font-size:12.8px">will be speaking about <span style="font-size:13px">Chinese Language Processing</span>. </span>
</div><div style="font-size:12.8px"><span style="font-size:12.8px">Lunch</span><span style="font-size:12.8px"> will be </span><span style="font-size:12.8px">provided!</span></div><div style="font-size:13px"><br><span style="font-size:12.8px">------------------------------</span><span style="font-size:12.8px">-----------</span></div><div style="font-size:13px"><span style="font-size:12.8px">ML</span><span style="font-size:12.8px">+NLP </span><span style="font-size:12.8px">lunch</span></div><div style="font-size:13px"><b><span style="font-size:12.8px">Tuesday Nov <span style="font-size:13px">23</span>th at 1<span style="font-size:13px">2</span>:00</span></b></div><div style="font-size:13px"><span style="font-size:12.8px"><b>GHC 8102</b></span><br style="font-size:12.8px"><br style="font-size:12.8px"></div><div>What You Need to Know about Chinese for Chinese Language Processing</div><div><br></div><div>In this talk, I will introduce essential knowledge of Chinese linguistics encompassing both the fundamental knowledge of the linguistic structure of Chinese as well as explanations regarding how such knowledge of the language can be explored in Chinese language processing. The perspective will be synergetic, aiming to provide comprehensive knowledge of the linguistic characteristics of the Chinese language along with insights and case studies explaining how such knowledge can help language technology.</div><div> </div><div>The talk will be organized according to the structure of linguistic knowledge of Chinese, starting from the basic building block to the use of Chinese in context. The first part deals with characters (字) as the basic linguistic unit of Chinese in terms of phonology, orthography, and basic concepts. An ontological view of how the Chinese writing system organizes meaningful content as well as how this onomasiological decision affects Chinese text processing will also be discussed. The second part deals with words (词) and presents basic issues involving the definition and identification of words in Chinese, especially given the lack of conventional marks of word boundaries. The third part will focus on lemmatization and parts of speech (词类), underlining the unique challenges Chinese poses for lemmatization, as well as distributional properties of Chinese PoS and tagging systems. The fourth part deals with sentence and structure, focusing on how to identify grammatical relations in Chinese as well as a few Chinese-specific constructions. In each topic, an empirical foundation of linguistics facts are clearly explicated with a robust generalization, and the linguistic generalization is then accounted for in terms of its function in the knowledge representation system. Lastly this knowledge representation role is then exploited in terms of the aims of specific language technology tasks. In terms of references, in addition to language resources and various relevant papers, the tutorial will make reference to Huang and Shi’s (2016) reference grammar for linguistic description of Chinese.</div><div><br></div><div>Bio:</div><div>Chu-Ren Huang, 黄居仁, is a Chair Professor of Applied Chinese Language Studies, The Hong Kong Polytechnic University.</div><div>He is a President of Hong Kong Academy of the Humanities and a Permanent Member, International Committee on Computational Linguistics.
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