This course aims at introducing students with various academic backgrounds to the quantitative aspects of language and the basic concepts of the application of computational techniques in language processing. The course will introduce quantitative notions about corpus data and explain how such data can be statistically described, analysed and tested.  It will also cover topics selected from a wide range of issues and challenges of the field, including but not limited to multilingual computing, using computers in linguistic studies, natural language processing, and the use of large corpora in natural language applications.  This course will also provide students with a foundation for further research in relevant areas.