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). Other types of completion: k (colloquium), z (credit).
Teacher(s)
doc. RNDr. Aleš Horák, Ph.D. (lecturer)
Guaranteed by
prof. Ing. Václav Přenosil, CSc.
Department of Machine Learning and Data Processing – 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 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
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). 1st ed. Brno: FI MU, 2000, 190 pp. info
  • ALLEN, James. 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. ISBN 0198238827. info
  • CHOMSKY, Noam. Syntaktické struktury., Logický základ teorie jazyka., O pojmu gramatické pravidlo (Syntactic Structures). 1st ed. 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.
Language of instruction
Czech
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, Spring 2015, Spring 2016, Spring 2017, Spring 2018, Spring 2019, Spring 2020, Spring 2021, Spring 2022, Spring 2023, Spring 2024, Spring 2025.
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