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TDT4275

Natural Language Interfaces

Credits 7.5
Level Second degree level
Course start Spring 2011
Duration 1 semester
Language of instruction English and norwegian
Examination arrangement Portfolio assessment

About

About the course

Course content

The subject comprises: What are words and languages? Grammar and syntactic analysis of natural language. Semantics and logical form. Statistical methods for language understanding. Dialogue analysis and conversational agents. Machine translation. Speech-based interfaces.

Learning outcome

The subject shall give a deeper insight into theory and methods for natural language understanding.

Learning methods and activities

Lectures and exercises. The subject requires an approved project report with theoretical and experimental content. Portfolio evaluation is the basis for the grade in the course. The portfolio includes a final written exam (55%) and work (45%). The results for the parts are given in %-scores, while the entire portfolio is assigned a letter grade. If there is a re-sit examination, the examination form may change from written to oral.

Course materials

D. Jurafsky, J. Martin: Speech and Language Processing, Prentice Hall, 2nd Ed., 2008.

Credit reductions

Course code Reduction From
SIF8070 7.5 sp
This course has academic overlap with the course in the table above. If you take overlapping courses, you will receive a credit reduction in the course where you have the lowest grade. If the grades are the same, the reduction will be applied to the course completed most recently.

Subject areas

  • Informatics
  • Communication and Information Science
  • Linguistics
  • Languages, Logics and Inform. Technology
  • Technological subjects

Contact information

Course coordinator

Department with academic responsibility

Department of Computer Science

Examination

Examination

Examination arrangement: Portfolio assessment
Grade: Letters

Ordinary examination - Spring 2011

Arbeider
Weighting 45/100
Skriftlig eksamen
Weighting 55/100 Date 2011-05-23 Time 09:00 Duration 3 timer Place and room Not specified yet.