PB106 Corpus Linguistic Project I

Faculty of Informatics
Autumn 2025
Extent and Intensity
0/2/0. 2 credit(s) (plus extra credits for completion). Type of Completion: z (credit).
In-person direct teaching
Teacher(s)
doc. Mgr. Pavel Rychlý, Ph.D. (lecturer)
Guaranteed by
doc. Mgr. Pavel Rychlý, Ph.D.
Department of Machine Learning and Data Processing – Faculty of Informatics
Supplier department: Department of Machine Learning and Data Processing – Faculty of Informatics
Timetable
Wed 17. 9. to Wed 17. 12. Wed 12:00–13:50 C117
Course Enrolment Limitations
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Abstract
The aim of the seminar is to provide students with a deeper knowledge concerning a chosen area of corpus linguistics and practical checking of this knowledge by working on the project. The popularisation of corpus linguistics and other areas of language engineering is one of the main goals of Natural Language Processing Centre at the Faculty of Informatics.
Fundamental information about the Natural Language Processing Centre and corpus linguistics in general can be found at http://nlp.fi.muni.cz/.
Learning outcomes
Student will be able to: create a text corpus from different sources; use automatic tools for corpus annotation or information extraction; evaluate accuracy of automatic tools; present evaluation results.
Key topics
  • theme introduction: text corpora, parallel corpora, annotation, statistics, user interfaces
  • project selection
  • work on a project
  • presentation of project results and discussion
Study resources and literature
  • EISENSTEIN, Jacob. Introduction to natural language processing. Cambridge, Massachusetts: MIT Press, 2019, xiv, 519. ISBN 9780262042840. info
  • JURAFSKY, Dan and James H. MARTIN. Speech and language processing : an introduction to natural language processing, computational linguistics and speech recognition. 2nd ed. New Jersey: Pearson, 2009, 1024 s. ISBN 9780135041963. info
  • JACKSON, Peter and Isabelle MOULINIER. Natural language processing for online applications : text retrieval, extraction and categorization. Amsterdam: John Benjamins Publishing Company, 2002, x, 225. ISBN 902724989X. info
  • MANNING, Christopher D. and Hinrich SCHÜTZE. Foundations of statistical natural language processing. Cambridge: MIT Press, 1999, xxxvii, 68. ISBN 0-262-13360-1. info
  • Corpus processing for lexical acquisition. Edited by Bran Boguraev - J. (James) Pustejovsky. Cambridge: Bradford Book, 1996, xi, 245 s. ISBN 0-262-02392-X. info
Approaches, practices, and methods used in teaching
lectures, work on individual project, personal consultation, presentation
Method of verifying learning outcomes and course completion requirements
Project. Evaluation based on presentation of project results.
Language of instruction
English
Further Comments
Study Materials
The course is taught annually.
The course is also listed under the following terms Autumn 2002, Autumn 2003, Autumn 2004, Autumn 2005, Autumn 2006, Autumn 2007, Autumn 2008, Autumn 2009, Autumn 2010, Autumn 2011, Autumn 2012, Autumn 2013, Autumn 2014, Autumn 2015, Autumn 2016, Autumn 2017, Autumn 2018, Autumn 2019, Autumn 2020, Autumn 2021, Autumn 2022, Autumn 2023, Autumn 2024.
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