Computational Linguistics Seminar

lclig2140  2019-2020  Louvain-la-Neuve

Computational Linguistics Seminar
Note from June 29, 2020
Although we do not yet know how long the social distancing related to the Covid-19 pandemic will last, and regardless of the changes that had to be made in the evaluation of the June 2020 session in relation to what is provided for in this learning unit description, new learnig unit evaluation methods may still be adopted by the teachers; details of these methods have been - or will be - communicated to the students by the teachers, as soon as possible.
5 credits
30.0 h
Q2

This biannual learning unit is being organized in 2019-2020
Teacher(s)
Fairon Cédrick;
Language
French
Prerequisites
One course of introduction to linguistics.
Aims

At the end of this learning unit, the student is able to :

1 At the end of the course, the student will be able to summarize and present a research topic, a theoretical approach or an author belonging to the field of computational linguistics.
 

The contribution of this Teaching Unit to the development and command of the skills and learning outcomes of the programme(s) can be accessed at the end of this sheet, in the section entitled “Programmes/courses offering this Teaching Unit”.
Content
The organization of the course is twofold:
1. The first part of the course is a lecture introducing the topic, the theoretical approach or the author selected as the seminar focus (a different theme is proposed every year).
2. Then, each student has to prepare a personal work (corresponding to the seminar theme) and to make an oral presentation of it.
Evaluation methods
Evaluation Paper + oral presentation + involvement
Other information
Support. Reading Portfolio
Faculty or entity
LING


Programmes / formations proposant cette unité d'enseignement (UE)

Title of the programme
Sigle
Credits
Prerequisites
Aims
Master [120] in Linguistics