FI:P091 Semantics and Communication - Course Information

P091 Semantics and Communication

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

• Informatics (programme FI, B-IN)
• Informatics (programme FI, M-IN)
• Upper Secondary School Teacher Training in Informatics (programme FI, M-IN)
• Upper Secondary School Teacher Training in Informatics (programme FI, M-SS)
• Information Technology (programme FI, B-IN)

Syllabus

• Meanings of meaning.
• Types of meaning.
• Semantics and society.
• Is semantic scientific?
• Semantic features.
• Componential analysis.
• The semantic structure of natural language sentences and its representation.
• Meaning representation and knowledge representation.
• Semantic networks.
• Semantics and syntax.
• Semantics and the dictionary.
• Presuppositions.
• Semantics and pragmatics.
• Semantics in the frame of natural language processing.

Language of instruction

Czech

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