PA091 Semantics and Communication

Faculty of Informatics
Spring 2008
Extent and Intensity
2/0. 2 credit(s) (plus extra credits for completion). Recommended Type of Completion: k (colloquium). Other types of completion: z (credit).
Teacher(s)
prof. PhDr. Karel Pala, CSc. (lecturer)
Guaranteed by
prof. Ing. Václav Přenosil, CSc.
Department of Machine Learning and Data Processing – Faculty of Informatics
Contact Person: prof. PhDr. Karel Pala, CSc.
Timetable
Wed 14:00–15:50 B003
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
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Course objectives
The fundamental problems of the analysis of meaning is touched here with regard to the computer processing. The main approaches to the semantic analysis of natural language are touched in the course as well as the discourse analysis.
Syllabus
  • Meanings of meaning.
  • Types of meaning.
  • Semantics and society.
  • Is semantics scientific?
  • Semantic features and componential analysis.
  • The semantic structure of natural language sentences and its representation.
  • Meaning representation and knowledge representation.
  • Semantic networks and ontologies.
  • Semantics and syntax.
  • Semantics and the dictionary.
  • Semantics and pragmatics.
  • Semantics in the frame of natural language processing.
Literature
  • LEECH, Geoffrey. Semantics :the study of meaning. 2nd ed. London: Penguin Books, 1981, xii, 383 s. ISBN 0-14-013487-5. info
Language of instruction
Czech
Further Comments
The course is taught annually.
The course is also listed under the following terms Spring 2003, Spring 2004, Spring 2005, Spring 2006, Spring 2007, Spring 2009, Spring 2010, Spring 2011, Spring 2012.
  • Enrolment Statistics (Spring 2008, recent)
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