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, 22 December 2019
- 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 (1) 60 credits in language technology/computational linguistics, or (2) 60 credits in computer science, or (3) 60 credits in a language subject, 7.5 credits in computer programming and 7.5 credits in logic/discrete mathematics. Knowledge of English equivalent to what is required for entry to Swedish first-cycle courses and study programmes.
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.
If there are special reasons for doing so, an examiner may make an exception from the method of assessment indicated and allow a student to be assessed by another method. An example of special reasons might be a certificate regarding special pedagogical support from the University's disability coordinator.