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Course: Language, Technology and the Internet

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Course title Language, Technology and the Internet
Course code DAS/LTI
Organizational form of instruction Lesson + Seminary
Level of course Bachelor
Year of study not specified
Semester Winter and summer
Number of ECTS credits 4
Language of instruction English
Status of course Compulsory-optional
Form of instruction Face-to-face
Work placements This is not an internship
Recommended optional programme components None
Course availability The course is available to visiting students
Lecturer(s)
  • Bond Francis Charles, PhD.
Course content
*Introduction, Organization: Main Issues * Writing and Text * Speech and Language Technology * New Mediums: Email, Usenet, Blogs and Chat * Wikis and Collaboration * The World Wide Web and HTML * The Web as Corpus * Text, Meta-text and Normalization * Citation, Reputation and PageRank * Large Language Models and AI

Learning activities and teaching methods
unspecified
Learning outcomes
This course explores the intersection of language, technology and the internet. We start by looking at the introduction of writing and how it can be represented on computers. We then look at speech and how it differs from text. These are compared to different media of communication such as email, blogs and chat. The internet has made new methods of writing possible, as well as made access to an incredible variety and amount of text. We study how wikipedia pages are written, and students group together to write their own pages. In the second half of the course, we learn about how information is represented electronically, both as text and meta-text. We finish with a discussion of large language models and AI. The implications of this technology for our thinking and understanding of language will also be discussed.

Prerequisites
unspecified

Assessment methods and criteria
unspecified
Assignment 1: investigate modality Assignment 2: write/improve a wikipedia page Assignment 3: harvest or analyze data/prompt AI
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Palacký University Olomouc, date of update: 01.05.2025 23:59. Data created for academic year 2024/2025