Syntactic Parsing (Master's Level)
Syllabus, Master's level, 5LN713
- Code
- 5LN713
- Education cycle
- Second cycle
- Main field(s) of study and in-depth level
- Language Technology A1N
- Grading system
- Fail (U), Pass (G), Pass with distinction (VG)
- Finalised by
- The Department Board, 3 November 2016
- Responsible department
- Department of Linguistics and Philology
General provisions
The course can be given within the Master's Programme in Language Technology and as a freestanding course.
Entry requirements
A Bachelor's degree and at least 60 credits in language technology/computational linguistics; or at least 60 credits in computer science; or at least 60 credits in a linguistic subject, along with 15 credits in programming and 7.5 credits logic/discrete mathematics.
Learning outcomes
In order to pass the course, a student must be able to:
- explain the standard models and algorithms used in phrase structure and dependency parsing;
- implement and evaluate some of these techniques;
- critically evaluate scientific publications in the field of syntactic parsing;
- design, evaluate, or theoretically analyse the syntactic component of an NLP system,
with a certain degree of independent creativity, clearly stating and critically discussing methodological assumptions, applying state-of-the-art methods for evaluation, and presenting the result in a professionally adequate manner.
Content
See the Learning Outcomes.
Instruction
The teaching consists of lectures and laboratory sessions under supervision.
Assessment
The course is examined by means of a series of assignments.