FI:IB030 Introduction to CL - Course Information

IB030 Introduction to Computational Linguistics

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)

doc. RNDr. Aleš Horák, Ph.D. (lecturer)

Guaranteed by

prof. Ing. Václav Přenosil, CSc.
Department of Machine Learning and Data Processing – Faculty of Informatics
Contact Person: doc. RNDr. Aleš Horák, Ph.D.

Timetable

Wed 14:00–15:50 B204

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

• Applied Informatics (programme FI, B-AP)
• Bioinformatics (programme FI, B-AP)
• Czech Language and Literature (programme FF, M-FI) (2)
• Czech Language and Literature (programme FF, M-HS)
• Czech Language with Orientation on Computational Linguistics (programme FF, B-FI)
• Informatics with another discipline (programme FI, B-BI)
• Informatics with another discipline (programme FI, B-FY)
• Informatics with another discipline (programme FI, B-GE)
• Informatics with another discipline (programme FI, B-GK)
• Informatics with another discipline (programme FI, B-CH)
• Informatics with another discipline (programme FI, B-IO)
• Informatics with another discipline (programme FI, B-MA)
• Informatics with another discipline (programme FI, B-SO)
• Informatics with another discipline (programme FI, B-TV)
• Informatics (programme FI, B-IN)
• Public Administration Informatics (programme FI, B-AP)
• Mathematical Informatics (programme FI, B-IN)
• Parallel and Distributed Systems (programme FI, B-IN)
• Computer Graphics and Image Processing (programme FI, B-IN)
• Computer Networks and Communication (programme FI, B-IN)
• Computer Systems and Data Processing (programme FI, B-IN)
• Programmable Technical Structures (programme FI, B-IN)
• Embedded Systems (programme FI, N-IN)
• Service Science, Management and Engineering (programme FI, N-AP)
• Social Informatics (programme FI, B-AP)
• Artificial Intelligence and Natural Language Processing (programme FI, B-IN)

Course objectives

In this course the main principles of natural language processing are presented. The algorithmic description of the main language analysis levels will be discussed - morphology, syntax, semantics and pragmatics. Also the resources of natural language data, corpora, will be presented. The role of knowledge representation, inference and relations to artificial intelligence will be touched as well.

Syllabus

• Introduction to Computational Linguistics (Natural Language Processing, NLP).
• Levels of description: phonetics and phonology, morphology, syntax, semantics and pragmatics.
• Representation of morphological and syntactic structures.
• Analysis and synthesis: speech, morphological, syntactic, semantic.
• Knowledge representation forms with regard to lexical units.
• Language understanding: sentence meaning representation, logical inference.

Literature

• PALA, Karel. Počítačové zpracování přirozeného jazyka (Natural Language Processing). 1st ed. Brno: FI MU, 2000, 190 pp. info
• ALLEN, James. Natural Language Understanding. 2nd ed. Redwood City: Benjamin/Cummings Publishing Company, 1995, xv, 654 s. ISBN 0-8053-0334-0. info
• The Oxford handbook of computational linguistics. Edited by Ruslan Mitkov. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2003, xx, 784. ISBN 0198238827. info
• CHOMSKY, Noam. Syntaktické struktury., Logický základ teorie jazyka., O pojmu gramatické pravidlo (Syntactic Structures). 1st ed. Praha: Academia, 1966, 209 s. info
• MATERNA, Pavel and Jan ŠTĚPÁN. Filozofická logika: nová cesta? (Philosophical logic: a new way?). Olomouc: Olomouc (Univerzita Palackého), 2000, 127 pp. ISBN 80-244-0109-6. info

Teaching methods

Lectures with real system examples, practical task.

Assessment methods

Final written test.

Language of instruction

Czech

Further Comments

Study Materials
The course is taught annually.

Teacher's information

http://nlp.fi.muni.cz/poc_lingv/

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