I031 Algebraic instruments of linguistics

Faculty of Informatics
Autumn 1999
Extent and Intensity
2/0. 3 credit(s) (plus extra credits for completion). Recommended Type of Completion: zk (examination). Other types of completion: k (colloquium), z (credit).
Teacher(s)
prof. RNDr. Miroslav Novotný, DrSc. (lecturer)
Guaranteed by
prof. RNDr. Mojmír Křetínský, CSc.
Department of Computer Science – Faculty of Informatics
Contact Person: prof. RNDr. Miroslav Novotný, DrSc.
Prerequisites (in Czech)
P998 Bc-Exam || I997 State Exam
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
  • Natural language, its syntax and semantics, morphological and syntactical categories.
  • Formal language regarded as an algebraic structure.
  • Free monoids, relations defined by languages, syntactical monoids, regular languages.
  • Galois connections, closure operators, complete lattices. Morphological and syntactical categories of a formal language.
  • Generalized grammars and grammars. Productions and their norms.
  • Languages generated by grammars. Chomsky's hierarchy of grammars and languages, contex-free grammars and languages.
Literature
  • NOVOTNÝ, Miroslav. S algebrou od jazyka ke gramatice a zpět. Vyd. 1. Praha: Academia, 1988, 308 s. URL info
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.
  • Enrolment Statistics (Autumn 1999, recent)
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