Computational and Corpus Approaches to Chinese Language Learning: An Introduction

In this introductory chapter, we first provide a discussion of the rationale and objectives of the book. We then offer a brief review of the body of corpus linguistics research that intersects with Chinese language pedagogy and acquisition. This is followed by an overview of the state of the art of research in computational linguistics and natural language processing that pertains to Chinese language teaching, learning, and assessment. We conclude with a description of the organization of the book.