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Natural-language Processing

Type of study Follow-up Master
Language of instruction Czech
Code 460-4092/01
Abbreviation ZPJ
Course title Natural-language Processing
Credits 4
Coordinating department Department of Computer Science
Course coordinator prof. RNDr. Marie Duží, CSc.

Subject syllabus

Lectures:
1) Principles of logical analysis. Paradoxical arguments resulting from a coarse-grained analysis of premises.
2) Frege-Church semantic schema. Denotational vs. procedural semantics.
3) Transparent Intensional Logic: constructions.
4) Ramified hierarchy of types, epistemic base, intensions vs. extensions.
5) Non-existence and modalities.
6) Knowledge reprezentation and ontology.
7) Ontology as a logic of intensions
8) Hyperintensional, partial typed lambda calculus.
9) Dynamic reasoning and temporal logic.
10) Communication of agents in a multi-agent system.

Seminars:
1) Principles of logical analysis. Paradoxical arguments resulting from a coarse-grained analysis of premises.
2) Frege-Church semantic schema. Denotational vs. procedural semantics.
3) Transparent Intensional Logic: constructions.
4) Ramified hierarchy of types, epistemic base, intensions vs. extensions.
5) Non-existence and modalities.
6) Knowledge reprezentation and ontology.
7) Ontology as a logic of intensions
8) Hyperintensional, partial typed lambda calculus.
9) Dynamic reasoning and temporal logic.
10) Communication of agents in a multi-agent system.

Literature

[1] Duží, M., Jespersen B., Materna, P. (2010): Procedural Semantics for Hyper-intensional Logic. Sprinter.

Advised literature

[1] Materna P.: Concepts and Objects. Acta Philosophica Fennica, Vol. 63, Helsinki 1998.
[2] Tichý, P.: The Foundations of Frege's Logic. De Gruyter 1988.
[3] Duží, M., Materna P.: Constructions.