This course give a fundamental introduction to Chinese Information Processing (CIP), including: 1. the nature and history of CIP; 2.the fundamental principle of CIP, like corpus, matching, rules, statistics, and corpus annotation; 3. frequently-used tools, corpora and how to use them. We’ll do some computer programming in this course, so it is easier for students who have enough knowledge on programming. However, the programming tasks in this course are too easy to worry about for most students.