COURSE UNIT TITLE

: COMPUTATIONAL LINGUISTICS

DEGREE PROGRAMMES

Description of Individual Course Units

Course Unit Code Course Unit Title Type Of Course D U L ECTS
DIL 2064 COMPUTATIONAL LINGUISTICS ELECTIVE 3 0 0 6

Offered By

Linguistics

Level of Course Unit

First Cycle Programmes (Bachelor's Degree)

Course Coordinator

PROFESSOR DOCTOR ÖZGÜN KOŞANER

Offered to

Linguistics

Course Objective

This course aims at providing information and knowledge to the students - after stating the position of linguistics in the computer engineering discipline - on computer software developed by making use of the findings of linguistics and other related disciplines. In this course the students will become knowledgeable about the computer software implemented in phonetics and phonology, morphology, syntax, summarizing, translation and lexicography.

Learning Outcomes of the Course Unit

1   explain how linguistics is used in computer technologies;
2   explain how morphological parsers operate;
3   explain how syntactic parsers operate;
4   operate the software used in phonetic and phonological analyses;
5   evaluate how various types of corpora could be built.

Mode of Delivery

Face -to- Face

Prerequisites and Co-requisites

None

Recomended Optional Programme Components

None

Course Contents

Week Subject Description
1 The Link Between Computer Sciences And Linguistics
2 Regular Expressions
3 Regular Expressions and Finite State Automata
4 Finite State Automata
5 Python: Installing Python Environment Basic Data Types in Python
6 Lists and Dictionaries in Python Conditional expressions and loops
7 Functions and file operations: JSON and Pickle Libraries
8 MIDTERM EXAM
9 Analysing Linguistic Data in Python: Cleaning text Tokenization
10 Coding in Pythton: Keyword in Context
11 Linguistics Libraries in Python: Spacy
12 NLP with Spacy: Morphological analysis
13 NLP with Spacy: Syntactic analysis
14 NLP with Spacy: Named Entity Recognition
15 NLP with Spacy: Data Visualization
16 Final Exam

Recomended or Required Reading

1. Lawler, J. (1998). Using Computers in Linguistics: A Practical Guide. London: Routledge.
2. Barnbrook, G. (1996). Language and Computers: A Practical Introduction to the Computer Analysis of Language. Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press.

Planned Learning Activities and Teaching Methods

1. Lecture
2. Question-answer
3. Practices with sample data

Assessment Methods

SORTING NUMBER SHORT CODE LONG CODE FORMULA
1 MTE MIDTERM EXAM
2 FIN FINAL EXAM
3 FCGR FINAL COURSE GRADE (RESIT) MTE * 0.40 + FIN * 0.60
4 RST RESIT
5 FCGR FINAL COURSE GRADE (RESIT) MTE * 0.40 + RST * 0.60


Further Notes About Assessment Methods

Mid-term
Final exam

Assessment Criteria

1. Learning outcomes 1-5 will be evaluated via the questions asked in the mid-term and final exams.

Language of Instruction

Turkish

Course Policies and Rules

1. 70% class attendance is obligatory.
2. Absence from classes will not be considered as an excuse for late submission of the homework assignments/projects.
3. Cheating and plagiarism attempts in assignments and exams will be evaluated with a "0"(zero) grade.

Contact Details for the Lecturer(s)

ozgun.kosaner@deu.edu.tr

Office Hours


Thursday 13:15 - 15:00

Work Placement(s)

None

Workload Calculation

Activities Number Time (hours) Total Work Load (hours)
Lectures 14 3 42
Preparations before/after weekly lectures 12 7 84
Preparation for midterm exam 1 9 9
Preparation for final exam 1 12 12
Final 1 3 3
Midterm 1 3 3
TOTAL WORKLOAD (hours) 153

Contribution of Learning Outcomes to Programme Outcomes

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