PLIN025 A scholarly lecture and an excursion, Pt. 1

Faculty of Arts
Autumn 2015
Extent and Intensity
0/2/0. 3 credit(s). Type of Completion: z (credit).
Teacher(s)
doc. PhDr. Zdeňka Hladká, Dr. (lecturer)
Mgr. Marek Grác, Ph.D. (seminar tutor)
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
Fri 12:30–15:00 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 25 student(s).
Current registration and enrolment status: enrolled: 0/25, only registered: 0/25, only registered with preference (fields directly associated with the programme): 0/25
fields of study / plans the course is directly associated with
Course objectives
The course combines excursions to scholarly linguistic institutions and a series of lectures delivered by both Czech and foreign experts in corpus and computer processing of language and in related topics. The aim is to enrich standard teaching of computer linguistics and linguistically orientated Czech studies with concrete examples of work in the sphere of primary as well as of applied linguistic research and to get students acquainted with possibilities of using their specialisation in practice. The course is aimed especially at students of Czech with the focus on computer linguistics, but it is also open to all students of Czech as well as to students of other philological programmes. After the INOVA.CZ project is completed (i.e. since the spring term 2015) students will have to participate in financial costs of the excursions.
Syllabus
  • Excursions will take place especially at the Institute of the Czech National Corpus (Charles University, Prague), at various sections of the Institute of the Czech Language (Czech Academy of Sciences) and at other companies and institutions at which graduates from programmes focused on computational linguistics Czech studies and other related subjects can find positions. The series of lectures will be focused especially on topics form the spheres of theory and practice of corpus and computational processing of language, on issues of computational translation, on analysis and synthesis of spoken language etc. Some of the lectures will deal with “non-computational” linguistic topics from the field of Czech studies. The structure and topics of the course will be modified and enriched each term, also by following students suggestions. The choice of excursions will be partly repeated, following the scheme of spring and autumn terms (hence the distinction between parts 1 and 2; completing part 1 is not a condition for registration of part 2). Excursions planned for autumn term 2015: - Institute of the Czech National Corpus, Faculty of Arts, Charles University, Prague, - Brno departments of the Institute of Czech language, Academy of Sciences, - Moravia IT - an international company focused on translation and localization (currently in the process of arranging the excursion), - Brno section of the Czech Broadcasting. Planned topics of lectures – autumn term 2015: - issues of automated analysis of spoken language, - presentation of Wikipedia team at the Masaryk University,
  • - presentation of the Semantic Vision company (currently in the process of negotiation), - a traditional topic of the autumn term: how to write a good thesis. A program of the course will be specified at the beginning of the term.
Literature
  • Literature will be assigned to students presently in relation to topics of lectures and to the profile of the visited linguistic institutions.
Teaching methods
The focus will be on active participation of students, with regard to their interest in the issues dealt with during the particular activities. Students will be encouraged to make scholarly preparations for lectures and excursions, to participate in discussions and to process the acquired knowledge as team members.
Assessment methods
To complete the course successfully, it is necessary to participate actively in four activities (among which there must be at least one lecture and one excursion) and to complete assignments relating to those activities.
Language of instruction
Czech
Further Comments
Study Materials
The course is taught annually.
The course is also listed under the following terms Autumn 2012, Autumn 2013, Autumn 2014, Autumn 2017, Autumn 2019, Autumn 2020, Autumn 2021, Autumn 2022, Autumn 2023, Autumn 2024.
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