I030 Introduction to Computer Linguistics

Faculty of Informatics
Autumn 1999
Extent and Intensity
2/0. 2 credit(s) (plus extra credits for completion). Recommended Type of Completion: zk (examination). Other types of completion: k (colloquium), z (credit).
Teacher(s)
prof. PhDr. Karel Pala, CSc. (lecturer)
Guaranteed by
prof. PhDr. Karel Pala, CSc.
Department of Machine Learning and Data Processing – Faculty of Informatics
Contact Person: prof. PhDr. Karel Pala, CSc.
Prerequisites (in Czech)
Vhodná je znalost Prologu.
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 1998, Autumn 2000, Autumn 2001.
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