I030 Introduction to Computer Linguistics

Faculty of Informatics
Autumn 1998
Extent and Intensity
2/0. 2 credit(s). Recommended Type of Completion: zk (examination). Other types of completion: k (colloquium), z (credit).
Teacher(s)
prof. PhDr. Karel Pala, CSc. (lecturer)
Guaranteed by
Contact Person: prof. PhDr. Karel Pala, CSc.
Course Enrolment Limitations
The course is also offered to the students of the fields other than those the course is directly associated with.
fields of study / plans the course is directly associated with
Syllabus
  • Introduction to Computational Linguistics.
  • Natural language as a main tool of human communication. Language data in corpora, information about corpus linguistics.
  • Levels of description: phonetics and phonology, morphology, syntax, semantics and pragmatics. Traditional vs. formal grammars: representation of morphological and syntactic structures -- DAGs, meaning representation. Grammars: context-free, context-sensitive, logical - DCG, transformational. Generating and recognition: morphological, syntactic, sémantic. Parsing: morphological parser -- LEMMA, syntactic -- KLARA, Techniques of analysis: top-down, bottom-up, mixed, heuristics. Problem of ambiguity and searching.
  • Electronic or machine readable dictionaries: representation of lexical knowledge. Types of the machine readable dictionaries: monolingual, thesauri, idiomatic, morphological dictionaries (stems), translation dictionaries, - bi- or multilingual, the ways of their formalization.
  • Semantic representation of sentece meanings: logical vs. lexical sémantics. The Compositionality Principle: the composition of meanings, Semantic classification of verbs, valency frames, verbs as logical predicates, transparent intensional logic (TIL) and its application to semantic analysis of Czech sentences.
  • Pragmatics: sémantic and pragmatic nature of noun groups, discourse structure, deictic expressions, verbal and non-verbal contexts. Natural Language Understanding: semantic representation, inference and knowledge representations - are they the same? Structure of dialog systems.
Language of instruction
Czech
Further Comments
The course is taught annually.
The course is taught: every week.
The course is also listed under the following terms Autumn 1995, Autumn 1996, Autumn 1997, Autumn 1999, Autumn 2000, Autumn 2001.
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