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Credit points: 16.7 points 2nd and 3rd years
Coordinator: Dominique Estival.
Prerequisite: 175-241/341 Natural Language OR at least one core 2nd/3rd year linguistics subject. Students are encouraged to take 175-215/315 Formal Syntax beforehand or concurrently.
Contact: 3 hours of seminars a week.
Timetable: Second semester
Objectives:
Students who complete this subject should be able to:
- demonstrate familiarity with current frameworks for approaching the types of application covered in the subject, and the major historical developments leading up to them;
- demonstrate an awareness of the specific conceptual and practical issues and difficulties of the types of applications covered in the subject;
- design simple computer programs to solve the kinds of language processing problems considered in the subject.
Content:
A project-based introduction to techniques and issues in computational linguistics.
Assessment:
Assignments, essays and projects, totalling 5,000 words.
Prescribed texts:
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Handbook 1996 : Faculty of Arts (Volume 3 page 129)
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