FF:PLIN034 Algorithmic Descr. of Syntax - Course Information

PLIN034 Algorithmic Description of Syntax

Extent and Intensity

0/2/0. 4 credit(s). Type of Completion: z (credit).

Teacher(s)

RNDr. Miloš Jakubíček, Ph.D. (lecturer)

Guaranteed by

doc. PhDr. Zdeňka Hladká, Dr.
Department of Czech Language – Faculty of Arts
Contact Person: Jaroslava Vybíralová
Supplier department: Department of Czech Language – Faculty of Arts

Timetable

Wed 12:30–14:05 G13

Course Enrolment Limitations

The course is also offered to the students of the fields other than those the course is directly associated with.
The capacity limit for the course is 20 student(s).
Current registration and enrolment status: enrolled: 0/20, only registered: 0/20, only registered with preference (fields directly associated with the programme): 0/20

fields of study / plans the course is directly associated with

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Course objectives

The goal of the course is to provide the students with state-of-the-art in formal description of syntax with regard to its computational processing and automatic syntactic analysis (parsing). Students will be able to understand and use formal methods for description of syntax together with related methods and algorithms for syntactic analysis.

Syllabus

• historical overview, motivation, sentence and its surface structure
• shallow and deep analysis
• dependency and phrasal syntax
• advanced grammatical formalisms (HPSG, LFG, TAG, CCG)
• syntactically annotated text corpora (treebanks)
• evaluation methods for parsing quality
• applications of parsing

Literature

• MERLO, Paola, Harry BUNT and Joakim NIVRE. Trends in Parsing Technology: Dependency Parsing, Domain Adaptation, and Deep Parsing. Springer Netherlands, 2011, 297 pp. Text, Speech and Language Technology, Vol. 43. ISBN 978-90-481-9351-6. URL info

Teaching methods

lectures, exercises

Assessment methods

written test

Language of instruction

Czech

Further Comments

Study Materials

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