Computational Linguistics & Phonetics Computational Linguistics & Phonetics Fachrichtung 4.7 Universität des Saarlandes
Foundations of Language Science and Technology

Foundations of Language Science and Technology (WS 2007/2008)



Start: Wednesday 07.11.2007
When: Lecture: Wed 9-11am, Exercise: Friday 9-11am
Where: Building C 72, Seminarraum 1.12


Summary

This course will include the following topics:
  • Map of LS&T
  • Why is language/speech difficult and interesting?
  • Ambiguity, commication. inference ...
  • Linguistic phenomena, levels, concepts
  • Phonetics, prosody, morpholoy, syntax ... pragmatics
  • Automata, morphology
  • CFGs, parsing
  • Corpora and data-intensive linguistics
  • Human parsing: memory limitation + attachment
  • Differences between human + machine processing
  • Logic, ontologies, wordnet
  • HMMs: grapheme-phoneme-convert
  • Machine learning
  • Spoken dialog systems


Stellung im Studienplan
  • M.Sc. Program: Core Course CL (computational linguistics).
  • Standard time slot 1st semester.

Leistungspunkte
  • M.Sc. 6 LP.
  • Diplom 4 LP.