COMP Foundations of Chinese Computing.ppt

COMP323 Lecture 1 COMP323 Foundations of Chinese Computing Course Introduction Lecturer Qin LU csluqin@.hk Room PQ814, Tel.Teaching Assistant (Responsible for some Labs and Project Assignments) Chen Yirong csyrchen@.hk Room QT416, Tel. 2766 7326 Course Introduction COMP323 Reference Books CJKV Information Processing: Chinese, Japanese, Korean and Vietnamese Computing (PL1074.5 .L86) An Introduction to Chinese, Japanese and Korean Computing (QA76.H7795) 計算機中文信息處理 (PL1074.5.C42) and others Tutorials and labs: PQ604A Tuesday Group: 9:30 – 10:30 Tuesdays Thursday Group: 9:30 – 10:30 Thursdays Try to finish the labs and the online assignment/QA during lab hours Course Introduction COMP323 Website WebCT Lecture notes available Wed. by 5pm Print as NotePage Method of Assessment Course Work 55% 2 Programming Assignments 20% 2 online quizzes 20% 1 online homework 5% 4 online QA(labs) 8% Class attendance (punctuation) 2% Final Examination 45% Course Introduction Introduction to Chinese Computing Computer processing of data related to Chinese, involving any human-computer interaction activity where communication is achieved using Chinese language. Course Introduction Fundamental Problems with Chinese Computing At Chinese Character Level Large and not Closed Character Set Computer Representation, Input and Output At Chinese Language Level Lack of Morphological Variation Lack of Grammar Very Arbitrary and Flexible Superimposed Grammar Texts are Running Together Course Introduction Fundamental Problems with Chinese Computing Course Introduction Fundamental Problems with Chinese Language Bi-lingual, Tri-lingual and Multi-lingual Computing Question: Is Hong Kong a multi-lingual society? How can a system be designed so that it can be used by different languages with minimal changes? How can a system be designed so that it can be used for multiple languages? Distinguish Chinese and English Characters Chinese Text, English Text or C