Offizielle Kursbeschreibung
This seminar is concerned with the way computing technology has been introduced into linguistics and the way linguistic theory, data and methodology have influenced and informed the way language data is processed computationally. In this research-based seminar, we are going to explore areas of linguistics, corpus and computational linguistics, natural language processing and language engineering that have been influenced and informed by linguistics and linguistic data and have in turn incorporated computational, algorithmic techniques. The focus of the seminar is on computer applications in linguistics, i.e. research areas of linguistics and the ways they are using computer technology and algorithmic approaches thus opening up to new research techniques typically based on large digital corpora, automatic processing and annotation and qualitative as well as quantitative approaches to linguistic data.

The seminar starts off with an introductory section to give an overview of important developments in the history of computer applications in linguistics such as for example machine translation. The seminar is research-based. This means that students are expected to also work on projects of their own in such a way that they can present them in various forms typically of scientific communication as abstracts, posters and presentations as well as a final paper which is to be written according to the guidelines of a major computational linguistics conference, the Association of Computational Linguistics (ACL) conference. To this end, students work on a relevant research area to be discussed with me, identify research questions and work out the state of the art of research in the area of their project. All students will present their paper to the group in a virtual student research workshop at the end of the summer semester and submit their work as a term paper.

The seminar thus pursues two goals:
a) to provide an introduction to research themes and topics in corpus and computational linguistics and natural language processing, and
b) to acquaint students with the forms of written and oral presentation of scientific research. In this process, students will become familiar with important texts, conferences and data in this domain and get an overview of past and present research in the field and an outlook on future research areas.

The course materials and all submissions will be via the e-learning platform moodle.

Students will be notified when the moodle course goes online in early April.

Online-Angebote
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Semester: SoSe 2021
Semester: SoSe 2021