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 2009/2010)



Start: Wednesday 14.10.2009
When: Lecture: Mon, Wed 8.30-10am, Exercise: Fri 8.30-10am
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: Obligatory core course for everyone.
  • Standard time slot 1st semester.

Leistungspunkte
  • M.Sc. 9 LP.
  • Diplom 4 LP.