Introduction to Chinese Natural Language Processing

摘要

This introductory book is a systematic and up-to-date overview of fundamental and focused knowledge of Chinese NLP for both practitioners and a general audience. The Chinese language has the largest number of native speakers in the world, with over one billion people speaking some style of Chinese. The globalization and the development of the Internet have significantly increased the participation of Chinese-speaking users in global business and social life, accounting for the highest growth rate in on-line population over the past decade.