FF:PLIN025 Scholarly lect. and an excurs. - Course Information

PLIN025 A scholarly lecture and an excursion, Pt. 1

Extent and Intensity

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

Teacher(s)

Mgr. Marek Grác, Ph.D. (lecturer)
doc. PhDr. Zdeňka Hladká, Dr. (lecturer)
Mgr. Dana Hlaváčková, 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

Fri 12:30–14:55 T209

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

• Czech Language with Orientation on Computational Linguistics (programme FF, B-FI)

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.

Syllabus

• There will be excursions especially to the Institute of the Czech National Corpus (Charles University, Prague) and to other departments of Charles University focused on computational linguistics, to various sections of the Institute of the Czech Language (Czech Academy of Sciences) and to companies and institutions in which graduates from programmes focused on computational linguistics and on Czech studies can find positions. The series of lectures will primarily be focused on topics from 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 deal with topics from the sphere of “non-computational” linguistics from the field of Czech studies. The structure and topics of the course is modified and enriched each term, also by following students’ suggestions. The choice of excursions is partly repeated, following in a fixed way the scheme of spring and autumn terms (hence the distinction between parts I and II; completing part I is not a condition for registration of part II).
• The programme planned for autumn term 2017 (a preliminary plan):
• Excursions:
• 1) Institute of Formal and Applied Linguistics, Faculty of Mathemartics and Physics, Charles University,
• 2) Moravia - an international company focused on translation and localizations,
• 3) Albatros Media publishing company (for huge success, the excursion is repeated in spring term 2017).
• Lectures:
• 1) Forensic linguistics - Mgr. Veronika Nováková, Institute of Criminal Science (Prague),
• 2) Copywriting, work with contents - Mgr. Martin Brablec, Contents Agency (Brno)
• 3) Activities of Czech Centres - Mgr. Petra Landergott, Mgr. Lucie Řehoříková (Prague, Kiev)
• 4) On research of speech of patients suffering from Alzheimer and Parkinson diseases, Faculty of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, Brno university of technology (in the process of negotiation, lecturers’ names will be provided later).
• During the autumn term, there will be a planned meeting with graduates from programmes Czech Language with the focus on Computational Linguistics and Czech Language and Literature who have recently found interesting professions and are willing to share their practical experience.
• The programme of this course may be modified; specifications will be provided 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.

• Enrolment Statistics (Autumn 2017, recent)
  
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