Core body of knowledge

This page is a community-based effort to identify the core body of knowledge of the CL curriculum, following the ACM Model. It seeks to define "a minimal core consisting of those units for which there is a broad consensus that the corresponding material is essential" for any introductory course in computational linguistics. Following ACM's definition, "the core is not a complete curriculum ... the core must be supplemented by additional material."

The consensus of the participants of the Third Workshop on Teaching Computational Linguistics was to use the ACL wiki to develop and refine the definition of the CL core body of knowledge. Please use the talk page for discussion.

Computational Linguistics Core Body of Knowledge

CL1. Goals of computational linguistics

roots, philosophical underpinnings, ideology, contemporary divides

CL2. Introduction to Language

written vs spoken language; linguistic levels; typology, variation and change

CL3. Words, morphology and the lexicon

tokenization, lexical categories, POS-tagging, stemming, morphological analysis, FSAs

CL4. Syntax, grammars and parsing

grammar formalisms, grammar development, formal complexity of natural language

CL5. Semantics and discourse

lexical semantics, multiword expressions, discourse representation

CL6. Generation

text planning, syntactic realization

CL7. Language engineering

architecture, robustness, evaluation paradigms

CL8. Language resources

corpora, web as corpus, data-intensive linguistics, linguistic annotation, Unicode

CL9. Language technologies

named entity detection, coreference, IE, QA, summarization, MT, NL interfaces

References

Bird, Steven (2008). Defining a Core Body of Knowledge for the Introductory Computational Linguistics Curriculum. Proceedings of the Third Workshop on Issues in Teaching Computational Linguistics [1]