Language Resources and Technologies: corpora, lexicons and computational applications

5 ECTS / Semestre / Português
  • Introduce basic concepts of Language Technology, Corpus Linguistics, Computational Linguistics and Natural Language Processing;
  • Familiarize students with the use of differentiated linguistic resources during their research work and give them elementary training in the processes of compiling these resources;
  • To be familiar with diversified programs and methodologies which enable different types of linguistic information to be extracted;
  • Explore Corpus Linguistics approaches to corpus construction, corpus information search, and corpus-based linguistic analysis;
  • Acquire basic knowledge about typology, contents and problems of dictionaries, as well as about lexicographical tools
  • Use tools for the automatic processing of texts;
  • Acquire basic knowledge in the area of language modeling (lexicon and grammar) for Natural Language Processing.

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Member of Faculty - Augusto Soares Silva

Augusto Soares da Silva

Professor Catedrático
He is a Full Professor of Linguistics at the Faculty of Philosophy and Social Sciences of the Portuguese Catholic University (Braga Regional Centre). His…
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Member of Faculty - Francisco José de Oliveira Restivo

Francisco José de Oliveira Restivo

Associate Professor with aggregation
He has been an Associate Professor at the Faculty of Social Sciences of the Portuguese Catholic University since 2010 and a researcher and member of the Board…
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