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Credit points: 16.7 points 2nd and 3rd years
Coordinator: Dominique Estival.
Prerequisite: 50 points completed in Computer Science subjects, or by permission of the subject convenor. This unit cannot be taken by those who have completed Introduction to the Study of Language I and/or Introduction to the Study of Language II.
Contact: 2 lectures and 1 tutorial
Timetable: First semester
Objectives:
Students who complete this subject should be able to:-
- demonstrate a general understanding of the nature of human language and the major issues in linguistics;
- show they have begun to develop skills for describing and analyzing languages;
- show they have gained a conceptual framework for thinking about and discussing language;
- demonstrate an awareness of the place of linguistics in cognitive science and computational applications.
Content:
An introduction to linguistic analysis and representation with a focus on issues and problems in the computational modelling of natural language (understanding, generation and translation).
Assessment:
Assignments and an end of semester take home exam, totalling 5,000 words.
Prescribed texts:
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