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IB030 Introduction to Computational Linguistics

Faculty of Informatics
Spring 2008

Extent and Intensity

2/0. 2 credit(s) (plus extra credits for completion). Recommended Type of Completion: zk (examination). Alternate Types of Completion: k (colloquium), z (credit).

Teacher(s)

doc. RNDr. Aleš Horák, Ph.D. (lecturer)

Supervisor

prof. Ing. Václav Přenosil, CSc.
Department of Information Technologies - Faculty of Informatics
Contact Person: doc. RNDr. Aleš Horák, Ph.D.

Timetable

Tue 12:00–13:50 B204

Prerequisites

Before IB030, passing PV122 Formal structure of natural language may be an advantage.

Course Enrollment Limitations

The course is also offered to the students of the fields other than those the course is directly associated with.

Fields of study the course is directly associated with

there are 22 fields of study the course is directly associated with, display

Course objectives

In this course the main principles of natural language processing are offered. The algorithmic description of the main language levels will be discussed - morphology, syntax, semantics and pragmatics. Also the resources of natural language data, corpora, will be presented. The role of knowledge representation, inference and relations to artificial intelligence will be touched as well.

Syllabus

• Introduction to Computational Linguistics (Natural Language Processing, NLP).
• Levels of description: phonetics and phonology, morphology, syntax, semantics and pragmatics.
• Representation of morphological and syntactic structures.
• Analysis and synthesis: speech, morphological, syntactic, semantic.
• Knowledge representation forms with regard to lexical units.
• Language understanding: sentence meaning representation, logical inference.

Literature

• PALA, Karel. Počítačové zpracování přirozeného jazyka (Natural Language Processing). 1. vyd. Brno: FI MU, 2000. 190 pp. info
• ALLEN, James. Natural Language Understanding (Natural Language Understanding). 2nd ed. Redwood City: Benjamin/Cummings Publishing Company, 1995. xv, 654 s. ISBN 0-8053-0334-0. info
• The Oxford handbook of computational linguistics. Edited by Ruslan Mitkov. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2003. xx, 784 s. ISBN 0-19-823882-7. info
• CHOMSKY, Noam. Syntaktické struktury., Logický základ teorie jazyka., O pojmu gramatické pravidlo (Syntactic Structures). 1. vyd. Praha: Academia, 1966. 209 s. info
• MATERNA, Pavel and Jan ŠTĚPÁN. Filozofická logika: nová cesta? (Philosophical logic: a new way?). Olomouc: Olomouc (Univerzita Palackého), 2000. 127 pp. ISBN 80-244-0109-6. info

Assessment methods (in Czech)

Závěrečné hodnocení se děje na základě písemné zkoušky. Účast na přednáškách není povinná.

Further Comments

The course is taught annually.

Teacher's information

http://nlp.fi.muni.cz/poc_lingv/

The course is also listed under the following terms Autumn 2002, Autumn 2003, Autumn 2004, Autumn 2005, Spring 2007, Spring 2009, Spring 2010, Spring 2011, Spring 2012, Spring 2013, Spring 2014.

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