A Chinese NLP textbook, unpacked into runnable code
Companion repo for a beginner-friendly Chinese NLP book, covering tokenization to deep learning with chapter-by-chapter exercises.

What it does This repository houses the code companion to a Chinese-language NLP textbook. It walks beginners through ten chapters of progressively trickier tasks: Chinese word segmentation, POS tagging and NER, keyword extraction, syntactic parsing, text vectorization, sentiment analysis, and finally machine learning and deep learning methods applied to NLP problems. Each chapter is a self-contained code module meant for hands-on practice.
The interesting bit Most English-centric NLP courses assume spaces between words. This one doesn’t. The entire curriculum is built around Chinese text processing, where segmentation is itself a non-trivial first step rather than an afterthought.
Key highlights
- Chapter-by-chapter structure matching the book’s progression
- Covers both classical ML and deep learning approaches
- Explicitly targets beginners with “偏向实战” (practice-leaning) code
- Maintainers actively solicit issues and promise responsive fixes
- 1,042 stars suggest a modest but engaged learner community
Caveats
- The README warns this is a first edition with “不少小的问题” (quite a few small issues)
- No English documentation; Chinese language skills required
- No candidate images provided, so visual learners are out of luck
Verdict Worth bookmarking if you’re a Chinese-speaking developer starting your NLP journey and want code that maps cleanly to a structured curriculum. Skip it if you need polished, production-ready tools or don’t read Chinese.