| Course title | Linguistic Applications |
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| Course code | KOL/VLAP |
| Organizational form of instruction | Lecture |
| Level of course | Bachelor |
| Year of study | not specified |
| Semester | Winter and summer |
| Number of ECTS credits | 3 |
| Language of instruction | Czech |
| Status of course | Compulsory-optional |
| Form of instruction | Face-to-face |
| Work placements | This is not an internship |
| Recommended optional programme components | None |
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| Course content |
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1. Linguistic applications - introduction - brief history of natural language processing - basic approaches, tools, data - application categorization 2. Speech recognition: - dialogue systems: speaker dependent / speaker independent o ELIZA and the others, talking heads, avatars o Senior Companion - Czech humanoid Petra o telematics (navigations etc.) - realtime voice writing and text-to-speech synthesis o computers for the blind - spoken language archives 3. Language recognition: - spell-checkers, grammar check tools - n-gram models and their usability: o particular language recognition o spam detection - machine translation o word-based, phrase-based o statistical, rule-based, hybrid approach o corpora, treebanks + searching tools o translators comparison 4. Information extraction: - Internet search engines - sentiment analysis - discourse analysis - summarization - named entity recognition - question-answering 5. Forensic linguistics and stylometry: - cyberbullying and trolling detection - automatic administration of online discussions - etc. + neurolinguistic and psycholinguistic applications, second language acquisition applications etc.
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| Learning activities and teaching methods |
| Lecture, Monologic Lecture(Interpretation, Training), Dialogic Lecture (Discussion, Dialog, Brainstorming), Work with Text (with Book, Textbook) |
| Learning outcomes |
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This seminar provides one of the possible answers to the question "what are you going to do with that". The aim of the course is to introduce the students to the new trends from the field of linguistic applications (including practical examples) and show them the practical employment of linguistic knowledge. There are no technical pre-requisites demanded.
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| Prerequisites |
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unspecified
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| Assessment methods and criteria |
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Student performance, Dialog, Seminar Work
Active participation, seminar work. |
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| Study plans that include the course |
| Faculty | Study plan (Version) | Category of Branch/Specialization | Recommended semester | |
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| Faculty: Faculty of Arts | Study plan (Version): General Linguistics and Communication Theory (2021) | Category: Philological sciences | - | Recommended year of study:-, Recommended semester: - |
| Faculty: Faculty of Arts | Study plan (Version): General Linguistics and Communication Theory (2019) | Category: Philological sciences | - | Recommended year of study:-, Recommended semester: - |
| Faculty: Faculty of Arts | Study plan (Version): Lingvistics and Digital Humanities (2020) | Category: Philological sciences | - | Recommended year of study:-, Recommended semester: - |
| Faculty: Faculty of Arts | Study plan (Version): Lingvistics and Digital Humanities (2020) | Category: Philological sciences | - | Recommended year of study:-, Recommended semester: - |
| Faculty: Faculty of Arts | Study plan (Version): General Lingvistics and Theory of Communication (2014) | Category: Philological sciences | - | Recommended year of study:-, Recommended semester: - |
| Faculty: Faculty of Arts | Study plan (Version): General Lingvistics (2021) | Category: Philological sciences | - | Recommended year of study:-, Recommended semester: - |
| Faculty: Faculty of Arts | Study plan (Version): Lingvistics and Digital Humanities (2020) | Category: Philological sciences | - | Recommended year of study:-, Recommended semester: - |
| Faculty: Faculty of Arts | Study plan (Version): General Lingvistics (2022) | Category: Philological sciences | - | Recommended year of study:-, Recommended semester: - |
| Faculty: Faculty of Arts | Study plan (Version): Lingvistics and Digital Humanities (2020) | Category: Philological sciences | - | Recommended year of study:-, Recommended semester: - |
| Faculty: Faculty of Arts | Study plan (Version): Lingvistics and Digital Humanities (2020) | Category: Philological sciences | - | Recommended year of study:-, Recommended semester: - |
| Faculty: Faculty of Arts | Study plan (Version): General Linguistics and Communication Theory (2021) | Category: Philological sciences | - | Recommended year of study:-, Recommended semester: - |
| Faculty: Faculty of Arts | Study plan (Version): General Linguistics and Communication Theory (2019) | Category: Philological sciences | - | Recommended year of study:-, Recommended semester: - |
| Faculty: Faculty of Arts | Study plan (Version): General Lingvistics (2019) | Category: Philological sciences | - | Recommended year of study:-, Recommended semester: - |