Comprehensive Final Examination in Computational Linguistics and Programming

Course: «Applied (computer) Linguistics and English language»

Structural unit: Educational and Scientific Institute of Philology

Title
Comprehensive Final Examination in Computational Linguistics and Programming
Code
ННД. 13
Module type
Обов’язкова дисципліна для ОП
Educational cycle
First
Year of study when the component is delivered
2023/2024
Semester/trimester when the component is delivered
8 Semester
Number of ECTS credits allocated
1
Learning outcomes
PLO 6. Use information and communicative technologies to solve complicated specialized tasks and professional issues. PLO 7. To understand major problems of philology and approaches to their solution with the use of relevant methods, in particular, innovative interdisciplinary approaches of applied (computational) linguistics and information technologies; to explain their interrelation in the integrated system of interdisciplinary knowledge. PLO 12. To analyze language units, phenomena, and processes by methods of structural, mathematical, and computational linguistics; to represent the processes of analysis and synthesis of linguistic objects in an algorithmic way. PLO 15. To conduct linguistic analysis (phonetic, morphemic, syntax, word formation, morphological, semantic), literary criticism, and translation studies analysis of texts of different genres and styles, as well as computer modeling of analysis and synthesis of linguistic objects and phenomena. PLO: 16, 17, 22 ...-33
Form of study
Full-time form
Prerequisites and co-requisites
The Comprehensive Final Examination sets the task of testing the knowledge and skills acquired by graduates during undergraduate studies in certain fields of knowledge.
Course content
The program of this exam consists of the course questions of three thematic and disciplinary cycles. Mathematical disciplines: Introduction to higher mathematics; Discrete Math; Mathematical logic and theory of algorithms; Probability theory and mathematical statistics; Theory of formal grammar. Informatics: Basics of computer science, Basics of programming; Object-oriented programming; Databases and knowledge bases. Computational linguistics: courses of a complex multi-semester discipline Theoretical and applied linguistics in the following subject areas: applied phonetics; analysis and synthesis of oral speech; morpheme-word analysis in computer systems; morphological analysis in computer systems; semantic analysis in computer systems; syntactic analysis in computer systems; quantitative linguistics; structural linguistics; basics of automatic translation; traditional and computer lexicography; corpus linguistics.
Recommended or required reading and other learning resources/tools
Eric C.R. Hehner. a Practical Theory of Programming. - Springer-Verlag Publishers, New York, 2021. – 243 р. Gusak D., Kukush A., Kulik A. Mishura Yu. Pilipenko A. Theory of Stochastic Processes with Applications to Financial Mathematics and Risk Theory.New York: Springer, 2008, 375 p. J. V. Tucker, K. Stephenson. Data, Syntax and Semantics: An Introduction to Modelling Programming Languages. - University of Wales Swansea, 2006. – 840 p. Goldberg Y. Neural Network Methods for Natural Language Processing. Morgan & Claypool Publishers. 2017. 309 р. Handbook of the International Phonetic Association: A Guide to the Use of the International Phonetic Alphabet // Cambridge University Press, 2002. – 204 р. Johnson Keith. Acoustic and Auditory Phonetics. 3rd Edition. Wiley-Blackwell, 2011. 129 p.
Planned learning activities and teaching methods
The structure of the ticket reflects the complex nature of the exam and consists of four tasks. The first three questions are aimed at assessing students' knowledge and are of a theoretical nature: the first - is from the field of mathematics; the second - is from computer science; the third is from applied (computer) linguistics. The fourth practical task - "Portfolio of a computer linguist" - is aimed at evaluating students' skills and has a creative nature: presentation of computer programs for linguistic problems that students have developed during their studies. 10 calendar days before the exam, the portfolio is submitted by the student for review by the members of the examination committee, who familiarize themselves with the work, evaluate it, and, if necessary, ask the student questions on the exam.
Assessment methods and criteria
The number of points that a graduate can score is formed by the sum of points for 4 questions: the maximum number of points is 100, and the minimum positive number of points is 60, according to the evaluation scale. The maximum possible number of points for each theoretical question of the ticket is 20 points, for the practical task "Portfolio of a computer linguist" the maximum score is 40 points.
Language of instruction
Ukrainіаn

Lecturers

This discipline is taught by the following teachers

Nataliia Petrivna Darchuk
Department of Ukrainian Language and Applied Linguistics
Educational and Scientific Institute of Philology
Oksana Mykolajivna Zuban
Department of Ukrainian Language and Applied Linguistics
Educational and Scientific Institute of Philology
Nataliia G. Rusina
Theory and Technology of Programming
Faculty of Computer Science and Cybernetics