https://www.aclweb.org/aclwiki/index.php?action=history&feed=atom&title=Core_body_of_knowledge 2026-05-20T02:08:31Z Revision history for this page on the wiki MediaWiki 1.43.6 https://www.aclweb.org/aclwiki/index.php?title=Core_body_of_knowledge&diff=5449&oldid=prev 2008-06-21T16:02:27Z

<p></p> <table style="background-color: #fff; color: #202122;" data-mw="interface"> <col class="diff-marker" /> <col class="diff-content" /> <col class="diff-marker" /> <col class="diff-content" /> <tr class="diff-title" lang="en"> <td colspan="2" style="background-color: #fff; color: #202122; text-align: center;">← Older revision</td> <td colspan="2" style="background-color: #fff; color: #202122; text-align: center;">Revision as of 16:02, 21 June 2008</td> </tr><tr><td colspan="2" class="diff-lineno" id="mw-diff-left-l1">Line 1:</td> <td colspan="2" class="diff-lineno">Line 1:</td></tr> <tr><td class="diff-marker" data-marker="−"></td><td style="color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #ffe49c; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>This page is a community-based effort to identify the core body of knowledge of the CL curriculum, following the [http://www.sigcse.org/cc2001/cs-overview-bok.html#Summary 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."  <del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">(</del>Please use the talk page for discussion.<del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">)</del></div></td><td class="diff-marker" data-marker="+"></td><td style="color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #a3d3ff; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>This page is a community-based effort to identify the core body of knowledge of the CL curriculum, following the [http://www.sigcse.org/cc2001/cs-overview-bok.html#Summary 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."</div></td></tr> <tr><td colspan="2" class="diff-side-deleted"></td><td class="diff-marker" data-marker="+"></td><td style="color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #a3d3ff; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div> </div></td></tr> <tr><td colspan="2" class="diff-side-deleted"></td><td class="diff-marker" data-marker="+"></td><td style="color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #a3d3ff; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div><ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">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. </ins> Please use the talk page for discussion.</div></td></tr> <tr><td colspan="2" class="diff-side-deleted"></td><td class="diff-marker" data-marker="+"></td><td style="color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #a3d3ff; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div> </div></td></tr> <tr><td colspan="2" class="diff-side-deleted"></td><td class="diff-marker" data-marker="+"></td><td style="color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #a3d3ff; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div><ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">== Computational Linguistics Core Body of Knowledge ==</ins></div></td></tr> <tr><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br></td><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br></td></tr> <tr><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>; CL1. 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StevenBird https://www.aclweb.org/aclwiki/index.php?title=Core_body_of_knowledge&diff=5448&oldid=prev 2008-06-21T16:00:34Z

<p>New page: This page is a community-based effort to identify the core body of knowledge of the CL curriculum, following the [http://www.sigcse.org/cc2001/cs-overview-bok.html#Summary ACM Model]. It ...</p> <p><b>New page</b></p><div>This page is a community-based effort to identify the core body of knowledge of the CL curriculum, following the [http://www.sigcse.org/cc2001/cs-overview-bok.html#Summary ACM Model]. It seeks to define &quot;a minimal core consisting of those units for which there is a broad consensus that the corresponding material is essential&quot; for any introductory course in computational linguistics. Following ACM&#039;s definition, &quot;the core is not a complete curriculum ... the core must be supplemented by additional material.&quot; (Please use the talk page for discussion.)<br /> <br /> ; CL1. Goals of computational linguistics<br /> : roots, philosophical underpinnings, ideology, contemporary divides<br /> <br /> ; CL2. Introduction to Language<br /> : written vs spoken language; linguistic levels; typology, variation and change<br /> <br /> ; CL3. Words, morphology and the lexicon<br /> : tokenization, lexical categories, POS-tagging, stemming, morphological analysis, FSAs<br /> <br /> ; CL4. Syntax, grammars and parsing<br /> : grammar formalisms, grammar development, formal complexity of natural language<br /> <br /> ; CL5. Semantics and discourse<br /> : lexical semantics, multiword expressions, discourse representation<br /> <br /> ; CL6. Generation<br /> : text planning, syntactic realization<br /> <br /> ; CL7. Language engineering<br /> : architecture, robustness, evaluation paradigms<br /> <br /> ; CL8. Language resources<br /> : corpora, web as corpus, data-intensive linguistics, linguistic annotation, Unicode<br /> <br /> ; CL9. Language technologies<br /> : named entity detection, coreference, IE, QA, summarization, MT, NL interfaces<br /> <br /> == References ==<br /> <br /> Bird, Steven (2008). Defining a Core Body of Knowledge for the Introductory Computational Linguistics Curriculum. &#039;&#039;Proceedings of the Third Workshop on Issues in Teaching Computational Linguistics&#039;&#039; [http://aclweb.org/anthology-new/W/W08/W08-0204.pdf]</div>

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