Master degree program
Computational Linguistics

Computational Linguistics

QUALIFICATION

  • Scientific and pedagogical direction - Master of Philological Sciences

MODEL OF GRADUATING STUDENT

1. to demonstrate in-depth knowledge of the methodological foundations of the current state and trends in the development of scientific knowledge in the field of linguistics, computational linguistics, information systems: knowledge of artificial intelligence methods, processing large amounts of data, natural language processing, decision support methods, business intelligence, planning fundamentals scientific research.
2. to deepen and expand fundamental and modern knowledge and understand the methodology of linguistic and computational research for independent development and application in scientific research; choose methodologies and technologies for solving emerging problems of mathematical modeling, designing information system applications, network management and information security.
3. to identify the main trends in the use of computer technology in linguistics and education; demonstrate knowledge of the current state and trends in the development of human-machine interaction technologies, analysis of data warehouses, languages and programming platforms, machine learning technologies for processing natural languages.
4. From the position of the modern approach, critically analyze the functioning scientific concepts and theories in the field of human-computer interaction to determine the object and subject of independent research; develop work plans and programs for research and technical development in the field of design and development of intellectual information systems.
5. to integrate the received scientific knowledge into the practice of the educational process, apply modern software and hardware complexes for solving problems in the field of man-machine interaction: designing and developing complex information systems.
6. to critically evaluate the latest achievements of theory and practice and determine the specifics of the application in the field of information technology, computer training programs, information retrieval systems, distance education, hypertext technologies, and more; development of information systems.
7. to implement and make decisions in the organization and management of expert work in the field of computer technology and linguodidactics.
To possess the main methods, methods and means of receiving, storing, processing information.
Apply methods of mathematical modeling and optimization in order to improve the efficiency of information systems.
8. to choose certain computer technologies necessary for the implementation of independent linguistic research. Analyze the organization's business processes for their effective reengineering by identifying the direction of flow of information.
Competently present the results of independent scientific research in the form of presentations, reports, articles and dissertations.
9. to be able to analytical thinking, logic, juxtaposition and analysis, to scientific substantiation and creative solution of problems in the field of linguistic science.
To master the methods of synthesis and the methods of personal self-expression and self-development. Continue learning independently and improve your professional level.
Integrate knowledge and formulate judgments based on incomplete or limited information about the linguistic and information processes of the organization, predict the future scale of the use of information technologies associated with changes in the volume of information processed.
10. to conduct scientific and pedagogical activity, participate in the development of educational and methodological materials for teaching disciplines in the direction of the specialty "Computational linguistics".
11. to make your own original contribution to the development of the sphere of computational linguistics, computer and information technologies and systems: prepare, on the basis of the results of completed studies, publications, scientific and technical reports, reviews.
12. to analyze information from various sources in global computer networks. Use for their professional purposes the data of related sciences: statistical linguistics, quantitative linguistics, applied linguistics, socio-and psycholinguistics, theory and practice of translation. Formulate and present information, idea, problem and solutions in the field of design and development of information systems to specialists and non-specialists in oral and written form in their native and foreign languages.

Program passport

Speciality Name
Computational Linguistics
Speciality Code
7M02306
Faculty
Philological

disciplines

Corpus linguistics and computer tools
  • Number of credits - 5
  • Type of control - [RK1+MT+RK2+Exam] (100)
  • Description - The main purpose of «Corpus linguistics and computer tools» is to familiarize the undergraduates with the basics and concepts of corpus linguistics within the framework of an empirical approach to learning the language, mastering the fundamentals of hull technologies, acquiring the skills of working with hulls, and demonstrating the theoretical and practical importance of hulls for carrying out scientific linguistic studies in evidence-based linguistics. During the study of course, students should be competent in: the concept of the linguistic corpus; history of corpus linguistics; the Prerequisites for the creation and use of buildings in linguistic research, lexicography, translation and teaching in foreign languages; Typology of buildings; types of linguistic corps and the basis for their isolation; language building as a computer database; marking in the case, etc.

Foreign Language (professional)
  • Number of credits - 5
  • Type of control - [RK1+MT+RK2+Exam] (100)
  • Description - The purpose of the discipline is to form practical skills in various types of speech activity in a foreign language. The training course builds the ability to perceive, understand and translate information in the modern global space, participate in scientific events to test their own research. The discipline is aimed at improving competencies in accordance with international standards of foreign language education.

Formal Models in Linguistics
  • Number of credits - 5
  • Type of control - [RK1+MT+RK2+Exam] (100)
  • Description - The main purpose of «Formal models in Linguistics»: acquaintance of students with a variety of formal approaches to the syntactic structure of the language and its semantic interpretation, as well as the history of their origin; the formation of representations of linguistic manifestations that have played a key role in the development and syntactic theory; development of students' skills in the use of modern conceptual apparatus and argumentation in the field of theoretical syntax and formal semantics. During the study of course, students should be competent in: familiarity with the diversity of formal approaches to the syntactic structure of the language and its semantic interpretation, as well as the history of their origin; description and modeling of the phonetic, grammatical, semantic structure of the text of documents, in particular the construction of formal models of text data.

History and Philosophy of Science
  • Number of credits - 3
  • Type of control - [RK1+MT+RK2+Exam] (100)
  • Description - The purpose of the discipline is to form a holistic systemic understanding of philosophy as a special form of cognition of the world, its main sections, problems and methods of their study in the context of future professional activity. The training course forms the theoretical and methodological basis of research work.

Introduction to Mathematics
  • Number of credits - 5
  • Type of control - [RK1+MT+RK2+Exam] (100)
  • Description - The main purpose of «Introduction to Mathematics» use mathematical methods in linguistic analysis, to analyze information requests, synthesize answers, create and maintain thesauri, create data banks. During the study of course, students should be competent in: math language, axiomatic method, mathematical analysis, probabilistic models, mathematical statistics, information and coding theory, mathematical logic, algebra, geometry and topology, mathematical grammar theory, mathematical linguistics.

Organization and Planning of Scientific Research (in English)
  • Number of credits - 5
  • Type of control - [RK1+MT+RK2+Exam] (100)
  • Description - The purpose of the discipline is to form a system of knowledge and competencies for the organization and conduct of scientific research. The following issues are considered: stages of the research process; methodology of linguistic research; systematization, expansion, consolidation of professional knowledge, independent scientific and research, project work, mapping and work with bibliography and catalogs, application of scientific research methods, various techniques and technologies.

Pedagogy of Higher Education
  • Number of credits - 5
  • Type of control - [RK1+MT+RK2+Exam] (100)
  • Description - The purpose of the discipline is to form the ability to teach in universities and colleges based on knowledge of higher school didactics, theory of education and management of education, analysis and self-assessment of teaching activities. The training course is aimed at studying the trends in the development of education and the Bologna process. The course will help you master teaching and curatorial skills, various strategies and methods of teaching and education.

Psychology of Management
  • Number of credits - 3
  • Type of control - [RK1+MT+RK2+Exam] (100)
  • Description - The course reveals the subject, the basic principles of management psychology, personality in managerial interactions, personal behavior management, psychology of managing group phenomena and processes, psychological characteristics of the leader's personality, individual management style, psychology of influence in management activities, conflict management.

Theory of Applied Linguistics
  • Number of credits - 5
  • Type of control - [RK1+MT+RK2+Exam] (100)
  • Description - The main purpose of «Theory of Applied Linguistics» - training specialists in the field of linguistics, the acquisition of the necessary skills for independent practical activities; obtaining ideas about the principles and methods of research work required for the subsequent implementation of the master's thesis. During the study of course, students should be competent in: applied aspects of modern linguistics; Terminology and Terminography as an area of applied linguistics; theory of language / speech exposure; theory and practice of NLP; quantitative linguistics; main directions of modern computational linguistics.

Understanding and Generation of Text and Speech
  • Number of credits - 5
  • Type of control - [RK1+MT+RK2+Exam] (100)
  • Description - The main purpose of «Problems of understanding and generation of text and speech» to form knowledge about the basic methodological principles and technologies of understanding and generating text and speech, to analyze the sounding speech with the help of modern methods of experimental and phonetic study of sounding speech. During the study of course, students should be competent in: speech utterance generation models; speech production in different communicative conditions; understanding how to decode language signs; speech and text processing technology; main methods of instrumental analysis of text and speech.

Data for 2021-2024 years

disciplines

Computational linguistics
  • Type of control - [RK1+MT+RK2+Exam] (100)
  • Description - The main purpose of «Computational linguistics» is to deepen the general linguistic training and acquisitions of knowledge on the most important problems in the development of information technologies intended for linguistic research. During the study of course, students should be competent in: the use of computer language processing tools, general principles of computer modeling of thinking, implemented in computer models, the theory of computer knowledge, artificial intelligence and its application in linguistics, automatic analysis of natural language, machine translation and information search, voice input information; creation of teaching and reference language resources, experimental problems in the field of language theory; the development of any functional applications that rely on language data.

General and Computer Lexicography
  • Type of control - [RK1+MT+RK2+Exam] (100)
  • Description - The main purpose of «General and computer lexicography»: to formulate a systemic view of lexicography as a theory and practice of compiling dictionaries, which are a complete systematic reflection of the linguistic picture of the world, characteristic of a particular linguistic community; to characterize the typology of dictionaries and the principles of their compilation, incl. computer dictionaries. During the study of course, students should be competent in: stages of development of practical and theoretical lexicography; typology of dictionaries; typological dictionary parameters; modern classifications of dictionaries; the typical structure of special vocabulary dictionaries; terminography.

Humanities in the digital age
  • Type of control - [RK1+MT+RK2+Exam] (100)
  • Description - The purpose of the discipline is to form the ability to identify actual problems and methods of the humanities; apply the methods of exact science to various areas of humanitarian knowledge. When studying the discipline, the following issues are considered: specific and quantitative methods in philology; types of explanations: various explanatory approaches to text analysis; problems of electronic presentation of texts in the internet environment: textual problems and quantitative methods; social networks and their use to describe the structure of the text.

Linguistic information resources
  • Type of control - [RK1+MT+RK2+Exam] (100)
  • Description - The purpose of the discipline: formation of knowledge about the basic principles of linguistic support of information systems. During the study of course, students should be competent in: language as a means of presenting information; sign presentation of information; natural language interfaces; approaches to automate the process of analyzing words and sentences; formal methods of describing artificial languages; information representation and data processing languages in information systems; modeling linguistic support of information systems.

Methods and algorithms for computational linguistics
  • Type of control - [RK1+MT+RK2+Exam] (100)
  • Description - The main purpose of «Methods and algorithms for computational linguistics» - mastering the methods and algorithms of computational linguistics as applied to the tasks of processing text information in information systems; to form a system understanding of the practical applicability of computational linguistics. During the study of course, students should be competent in: methodology and methods of computer research; basic linguistic knowledge necessary for the development of automatic text processing programs; general principles of computer modeling of thinking, principles of automatic text processing at different levels.

Morphological Processing of Texts and Machine Learning
  • Type of control - [RK1+MT+RK2+Exam] (100)
  • Description - The purpose of the discipline: study of the main tasks and methods of machine learning, as well as their use for solving problems of morphological text processing. During the study of course, students should be competent in: automatic text processing; stages of automatic text processing; natural language processing platforms; primary text processing; automatic morphological analysis; automatic parsing; machine learning methods.

Programming (Python language)
  • Type of control - [RK1+MT+RK2+Exam] (100)
  • Description - The purpose of the discipline: learn data visualization techniques using Python to analyze linguistic data, to be able to analyze and visualize machine learning results using the Python language. During the study of course, students should be competent in: visualization of scientific data using the Python language; machine learning using Python; modern computer linguistics software tools; working with tools for working in a team (repository, task manager, documentation repository).

Programming Basics
  • Type of control - [RK1+MT+RK2+Exam] (100)
  • Description - The purpose of the discipline: explore the use of the Python language for solving statistical problems of computational linguistics. During the study of course, students should be competent in: - basics of functional programming (function, side effect, variable, pattern matching, Hinley-Milner type system, type classes); basic concepts of machine learning (data point, property vector, training sample, test sample, cross-validation); functional linguistic algorithms; statistical methods using Python language

Scientific postulates of general linguistics
  • Type of control - [RK1+MT+RK2+Exam] (100)
  • Description - The main purpose of «Scientific postulates of general linguistics» is to cover the main scientific paradigms and directions of modern science about language in accordance with the general theoretical and methodological progressive development of scientific knowledge. During the study of course, students should be competent in: the laws of the development of linguistics in the general process of scientific knowledge; the basis of the evolution of linguistic knowledge; conceptual and terminological apparatus of scientific paradigms of general linguistics (discourse analysis, content analysis, etc.); principles, postulates and main directions (structuralism, poststructuralism); ontological and epistemological foundations and various systems of the basic scientific paradigms of modern linguistics and the prospects of transition to an integral paradigm for the description of language.

Semantics and pragmatics of language
  • Type of control - [RK1+MT+RK2+Exam] (100)
  • Description - The main purpose of « Semantics and pragmatics of language»: form the ability to implement communication in an adequate style of oral and scientific speech, master the skills of effective written and oral communication, building a communication strategy and tactics of speech behavior depending on the intentions of communicants, familiarize undergraduates with the concepts of semiotics as a science of signs and sign systems; to give an idea of the different types of signs, the relationship of semiotics and linguistics. During the study of course, students should be competent in: the duality of the subject of semantics; two concepts of semantics: narrow and wide. strong and weak semantics; the concept of «speech act»; speech competence; speech act functions (illocutionary forces), illocutionary purposes; classification of speech acts depending on illocutionary purposes; grounds for the classification of speech acts.

Structural Linguistics
  • Type of control - [RK1+MT+RK2+Exam] (100)
  • Description - The main purpose of «Structural Linguistics» master the main provisions of structural linguistics in order to apply its methods in linguistic analysis. During the During the study of course, students should be competent in: history of structural linguistics, subject and theoretical positions of structural linguistics, schools of structuralism: Prague linguistic circle, Copenhagen linguistic circle (Glossmatics), American school of structural linguistics (Descriptivism).

Typological linguistics
  • Type of control - [RK1+MT+RK2+Exam] (100)
  • Description - The main purpose of «Typological linguistics»: familiarity with the universal and unique typological characteristics of languages at all levels. Consideration of the typological characteristics of a particular language, as well as language approaches of other types of typological signs related to a specific language type. During the study of course, students should be competent in: the place of modern typological linguistics among other areas of comparison of languages: comparative-historical and areal linguistics; theoretical positions and modern methods of typological studies; typological characteristics of four types of languages: inflectional, agglutinative, isolating and incorporating; matching of related and unrelated languages; analysis of specific language material by typology methods.

Data for 2021-2024 years

INTERNSHIPS

Pedagogical
  • Type of control - Защита практики
  • Description - Formation of practical, educational-methodical skills of conducting lectures, seminars, creatively apply scientific, theoretical knowledge, practical skills in teaching activities, conduct training sessions in the disciplines of the specialty; own modern professional techniques, methods of training, use in practice the latest theoretical, methodological advances, make educational, methodological documentation.

Research
  • Type of control - Защита практики
  • Description - The purpose of the practice: gaining experience in the study of an actual scientific problem, expand the professional knowledge gained in the learning process, and developing practical skills for conducting independent scientific work. The practice is aimed at developing the skills of research, analysis and application of economic knowledge.

Data for 2021-2024 years