master's full-time single-subject, language of instruction: Czech
Included in the programme: FI N-DL Digital Linguistics
Study-related information
- Parts of the final state examination and its contentThe state final exam consists of two separately classified parts: defense of the diploma thesis and professional final examination. The entire state exam lasts about one hour (approximately 30 minutes of defense, 30 minutes of examination). The presentation of the Master's Thesis is 15 minutes, the next 15 minutes is devoted to reviews and discussion. In the following oral exam, the student responds without preparation to the questions asked, typically two to three questions are given.
The student must be able to explain the basic concepts he / she learned in the profiling subjects of the program, demonstrate the ability to use the basic techniques, methods and concepts explained in the profiling subjects of the program and must be able to respond to the relevant additional questions, selected topic is discussed in depth. If a student is not able to meet one of these requirements, the exam cannot be successfully passed.
The precondition of access to the final exam is the submission of the Master's Thesis. In the case of negative reviews on the diploma thesis, the student may give up his/her defense, accept the "fail" and proceed straight to the oral exam. In case of unsuccessful defense, it is not possible to withdraw from examination. - Requirements of the studyOut of the total of 120 credits for the entire study, the student must earn at least 90 credits (three semesters) at the home university and at least 30 credits (one semester, in the recommended study plan the third one) abroad at a chosen partner university of this program.
- Suggestion of theses topics and the topics of defended thesesExamples of defended theses:
1) Knowledge-Based Argumentation Extraction, https://is.muni.cz/auth/th/dtffc/
2) Parallelization of the corpus manager's time-consuming operations, https://is.muni.cz/auth/th/vdho2/
3) Globální kalendář, https://is.muni.cz/auth/th/thmi1/
4) Part-of-Speech Tagging Using Neural Networks, https://is.muni.cz/auth/th/tm6r5/
5) Extending Czech WordNet Using a Bilingual Dictionary, https://is.muni.cz/auth/th/ukl2c/
Recommended progress through the study plan
Studijní povinnosti pro místní studenty / Study Obligations for Local Students
Students should start preparing their thesis in the second semester before the obligatory semester abroad.
Povinné předměty programu / Obligatory courses
Získat nejméně 120 kreditů za celou dobu studia a složit státní závěrečnou zkoušku. Získat 20 kreditů za předmět SDIPR a obhájit diplomovou práci. Absolvovat všechny povinné a povinně volitelné předměty programu a vybrané specializace nejvyšší formou ukončení.
Code | Name | Type of Completion | Credits | Term | Profile Cat. |
FF:CJBB105 | Introduction in Corpus Linguistics - Lecture | zk | 4 | 2 | P |
FI:MV013 | Statistics for Computer Science | zk | 3+2 | 2 | P |
FI:PA153 | Natural Language Processing | zk | 2+2 | 1 | P |
FF:PLIN063 | Alghoritmic Descript. of Morphology | z | 5 | 2 | P |
FI:SA400 | Foreign Studies - Digital Linguistics | z | 30 | 3 | - |
48 credits |
2 of the following courses
Code | Name | Type of Completion | Credits | Term | Profile Cat. |
FF:CJJ15 | Czech Comparative Grammar | zk | 5 | 1 | - |
FF:PLIN041 | History of Computational Linguistics | z | 4 | 1 | - |
FI:IB000 | Mathematical Foundations of Computer Science | zk | 4+2 | 1 | - |
FI:IV029 | Introduction to Transparent Intensional Logic | zk | 2+2 | 1 | - |
19 credits |
1 of the following courses
1 of the following courses
Code | Name | Type of Completion | Credits | Term | Profile Cat. |
FF:PLIN045 | Introduction to development of multiplatform applications | z | 5 | 1 | - |
FF:PLIN055 | Corpus and computational linguistics project | z | 3 | 1 | - |
FI:PV061 | Machine Translation | zk | 2+2 | 1 | - |
FI:PV251 | Visualization | zk | 3+2 | 1 | - |
17 credits |
1 of the following courses. Students should also start working on the diploma thesis before their semester abroad.
Code | Name | Type of Completion | Credits | Term | Profile Cat. |
FF:PLIN078 | Quantitative analysis | z | 4 | 2 | - |
FI:PA107 | Corpus Tools Project | z | 2 | 2 | - |
FI:PB138 | Basics of web development and markup languages | zk | 3+2 | 2 | - |
FI:PV211 | Introduction to Information Retrieval | zk | 3+2 | 2 | - |
16 credits |
In the first semester 1 of the following courses, in the second semester 2 of the following courses
Code | Name | Type of Completion | Credits | Term | Profile Cat. |
FF:PLIN032 | Grammar and Corpus | zk | 5 | 1 | - |
FF:PLIN033 | Algorithmic Description of Word Formation | k | 4 | 1 | - |
FF:CJBB184 | Language Typology | z | 4 | 1 | - |
FI:PB095 | Introduction to Speech Processing | zk | 2+2 | 1 | - |
FI:IA161 | Natural Language Processing in Practice | k | 2+1 | 1 | - |
20 credits |
Absolvovat alespoň 2 předměty z následujícího seznamu
Code | Name | Type of Completion | Credits | Term | Profile Cat. |
FF:PLIN037 | Semantic Computing | z | 4 | 2 | - |
FF:PLIN077 | Stylometry | z | 4 | 2 | - |
FI:IB047 | Introduction to Corpus Linguistics and Computer Lexicography | zk | 2+2 | 2 | - |
FI:PV004 | UNIX | zk | 2+2 | 2 | - |
FI:PV056 | Machine Learning and Data Mining | zk | 3+2 | 2 | - |
FI:PV080 | Information security and cryptography | zk | 3+2 | 2 | - |
FI:PA152 | Efficient Use of Database Systems | zk | 3+2 | 2 | - |
31 credits |
2 of the following courses
Code | Name | Type of Completion | Credits | Term | Profile Cat. |
FF:CJJ45 | Topics in semantics | z | 5 | 4 | - |
FF:PLIN065 | Tools for theories | z | 4 | 4 | - |
FF:PLIN068 | Applied Machine Learning | k | 3 | 4 | - |
FF:PLIN069 | Applied Machine Learning Project | zk | 6 | 4 | - |
FI:IV003 | Algorithms and Data Structures II | zk | 3+2 | 4 | - |
FI:PA128 | Similarity Searching in Multimedia Data | zk | 2+2 | 4 | - |
FI:PA154 | Language Modeling | zk | 2+2 | 4 | - |
FI:PA156 | Dialogue Systems | zk | 2+2 | 4 | - |
35 credits |
Volitelné předměty / Recommended elective courses
Zahraniční studijní pobyt / Study stay abroad
Out of the total of 120 credits for the entire study, the student must earn at least 90 credits (three semesters) at the home university and at least 30 credits (one semester, in the recommended study plan the third one) abroad at a chosen partner university of this program.
Studijní povinnosti pro zahraniční studenty / Study Obligations for Foreign Students
Povinně-volitelné předměty / Obligatory elective courses
at least 3 of the following courses
Code | Name | Type of Completion | Credits | Term | Profile Cat. |
FF:CJBB184 | Language Typology | z | 4 | 3 | - |
FF:PLIN035 | Computational Lexicography | z | 4 | 3 | - |
FF:PLIN064 | Introduction to Digital Humanities | z | 4 | 3 | - |
FF:PLIN075 | Linguistic Webinar | k | 5 | 3 | - |
FI:PA164 | Machine learning and natural language processing | zk | 3+2 | 3 | - |
FI:PA220 | Database systems for data analytics | zk | 2+2 | 3 | - |
FI:PV021 | Neural Networks | zk | 4+2 | 3 | - |
FI:PV061 | Machine Translation | zk | 2+2 | 3 | - |
FI:PV251 | Visualization | zk | 3+2 | 3 | - |
FI:IV111 | Probability in Computer Science | zk | 3+2 | 3 | - |
46 credits |
at least 2 of the following courses
Code | Name | Type of Completion | Credits | Term | Profile Cat. |
FF:PLIN034 | Algorithmic Description of Syntax | z | 5 | 3 | - |
FF:PLIN053 | Mobile application programming project | z | 4 | 3 | - |
FI:PB106 | Corpus Linguistic Project I | z | 2 | 3 | - |
FI:PV277 | Programming Applications for Social Robots | k | 1+1 | 3 | - |
13 credits |
Povinné předměty / Obligatory courses
Code | Name | Type of Completion | Credits | Term | Profile Cat. |
FI:IA161 | Natural Language Processing in Practice | k | 2+1 | 3 | - |
FF:PLIN055 | Corpus and computational linguistics project | z | 3 | 3 | - |
6 credits |
Volitelné předměty / Recommended elective courses
Code | Name | Type of Completion | Credits | Term | Profile Cat. |
FI:PV173 | Natural Language Processing Seminar | k | 2+1 | 3 | - |
3 credits |