This major is constructed by joint efforts of SSE and PKU Institute of Computing Language which is the key laboratory of Ministry of Education. Our students are required to boast the theoretical basis of SE technology, data analysis and natural language process, along with the main skills and methods of software development. They will have the ability of mass data (big data, including text data) process and natural language process system development, which makes them an advanced engineering technical personnel. After graduation, students can find jobs in artificial intelligence, information retrieval and filtering, service and management of information and knowledge, intellectual human-machine interface, computational advertising, machine translation and many other areas related to natural language process and artificial intelligence technology.