The invention belongs to the field of processing for natural languages of computational linguistics, and discloses a method for processing unknown words in Chinese-language dependency tree banks. The method includes steps of A, searching all synonyms of the unknown words by the aid of synonym forests; B, computing character pattern similarity degrees among the unknown words and all the synonyms of the unknown words according to character pattern features of Chinese characters; C, extracting mapped words and information quantities of word classes of the mapped words when the character pattern similarity degrees among the unknown words and the multiple synonyms are high, and improving character pattern similarity degree computation models; D, extracting the words with the maximum character pattern similarity degrees as the optimal mapped words of the unknown words and using the extracted words as explanation for the unknown words in the tree banks. The method has the advantages that unit pairs (word classes, word classes) in dependency syntactic analysis can be recovered to unit pairs (word classes, words) or unit pairs (words, word classes) on the premise that the scales of the tree banks are no longer expanded, accordingly, the information granularity can be refined, the problem of data sparseness can be solved, and the dependency syntactic analysis performance can be improved.