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Degree Programme Table: Linguistics and Artificial Intelligence (MA Hons) (UTLINAI)

Year 1, Academic year 2011/12, Starting month: September

  • Notes: PLEASE NOTE: FROM 2011 THIS DEGREE IS NO LONGER AVAILABLE .


    • COMPULSORY COURSES
    This DPT has compulsory course(s).


    Code  Course Name  Period  Credits 




    COURSE OPTIONS
    This DPT has set(s) of course options with the following rules.




    Year 2, Academic year 2011/12, Starting month: August


    COMPULSORY COURSES
    This DPT has 4 compulsory course(s).


    Code  Course Name  Period  Credits 
    LASC08006 Linguistics 2A As available 20
    LASC08013 Linguistics 2B As available 20
    INFR08008 Informatics 2A - Processing Formal and Natural Languages As available 20
    INFR08010 Informatics 2D - Reasoning and Agents As available 20




    COURSE OPTIONS
    This DPT has 1 set(s) of course options with the following rules.


    Select exactly 40 credits from Level 7 and 8 courses in Schedules A to Q, T and W, as available

     


    Year 3, Academic year 2011/12, Starting month: August

  • Notes: Notes: Entry to Honours normally requires a pass at the first attempt in Linguistics 2A and Linguistics 2B (or Linguistics 2L), with an average mark across these courses of 50% or above; a pass at 50% or above at the first attempt in one of the Informatics 2 courses and a pass in the other Informatics 2 course; or the permission of the relevant Head of School.


    • COMPULSORY COURSES
    This DPT has 1 compulsory course(s).


    Code  Course Name  Period  Credits 
    INFR09018 AI Large Practical As available 10




    COURSE OPTIONS
    This DPT has 4 set(s) of course options with the following rules.


    Select exactly 40 credits from the following list of courses, as available
    Code   Course Name   Credits
    LASC10041    Honours Foundation: Phonology & Phonetics   20  
    LASC10065    Syntactic Theory and English Syntax   20  
    LASC10029    First Language Acquisition (Honours)   20  
    LASC10011    Lexical Semantics   20  
    LASC10002    Sociolinguistics   20  
    LASC10021    Historical Linguistics   20  
    LASC10031    Origins and Evolution of Language (Hons)   20  
    LASC10061    Speech Processing (Hons)   20  
    LASC10033    Statistics and Experimental Design   20  
    LASC10058    Advanced Topics in Phonetics: Speech Production and Perception (Honours)   20  
    LASC10070    Current Issues in Morphology   20  
    LASC10046    Historical Phonology   20  
    LASC10035    Psycholinguistics   20  
    LASC10018    Simulating Language   20  
    LASC10062    Speech Synthesis   20  

    Notes:A booklet giving details about the courses being offered in any one year, as well as about restrictions on choice of courses, will be available to students entering the course to facilitate advance planning. Students MUST consult this handbook regarding the selection of 'core' courses.
     

    Overarching rule collection group: A  
    Select exactly 70 credits from these collections:  


    Select a minimum of 30 credits and maximum of 70 credits from the following list of courses, as available
    Code   Course Name   Credits
    INFR09017    Genetic Algorithms and Genetic Programming   10  
    INFR09019    Introduction to Vision and Robotics   10  
    INFR09028    Foundations of Natural Language Processing   10  
    INFR09029    Introductory Applied Machine Learning   10  
    INFR09031    Logic Programming   10  
    INFR09022    Introduction to Cognitive Science   10  
    INFR09023    Agent Based Systems   10  

     

    Select a minimum of 0 credits and maximum of 30 credits from Level 9 and 10 courses in Schedules I and O, as available

     

    Select a minimum of 0 credits and maximum of 10 credits from Level 9 and 10 courses in Schedules A to Q, T and W, as available

     




    Year 4, Academic year 2011/12, Starting month: August


    COMPULSORY COURSES
    This DPT has 0 compulsory course(s).


    Code  Course Name  Period  Credits 




    COURSE OPTIONS
    This DPT has 4 set(s) of course options with the following rules.


    Select exactly 40 credits from the following list of courses, as available
    Code   Course Name   Credits
    INFR10044    Honours Project (Informatics)   40  
    LASC10024    Dissertation in Language Sciences   40  

     

    Select exactly 30 credits from the following list of courses, as available
    Code   Course Name   Credits
    INFR10001    Advanced Vision (Level 10)   10  
    INFR10004    Cognitive Modelling (Level 10)   10  
    INFR10005    Intelligent Autonomous Robotics (Level 10)   10  
    INFR10018    Human-Computer Interaction (Level 10)   10  
    INFR10019    Multi-agent Semantic Web Systems (Level 10)   10  
    INFR10020    Knowledge Modelling and Management (Level 10)   10  
    INFR10025    Text Technologies (Level 10)   10  
    INFR10026    Adaptive Learning Environments 1 (Level 10)   10  
    INFR10027    User Modelling (Level 10)   10  
    INFR10033    Machine Translation (Level 10)   10  
    INFR10036    Machine Learning & Pattern Recognition (Level 10)   10  
    INFR10041    Automated Reasoning (Level 10)   10  
    INFR10039    Computer Animation & Visualisation (Level 10)   10  
    INFR10035    Natural Language Understanding (Level 10)   10  
    INFR10034    Natural Language Generation (Level 10)   10  
    INFR10045    Automated Planning (Level 10)   10  

     

    Overarching rule collection group: A  
    Select exactly 50 credits from these collections:  


    Select a minimum of 40 credits and maximum of 50 credits from the following list of courses, as available
    Code   Course Name   Credits
    LASC10041    Honours Foundation: Phonology & Phonetics   20  
    LASC10065    Syntactic Theory and English Syntax   20  
    LASC10029    First Language Acquisition (Honours)   20  
    LASC10011    Lexical Semantics   20  
    LASC10002    Sociolinguistics   20  
    LASC10021    Historical Linguistics   20  
    LASC10031    Origins and Evolution of Language (Hons)   20  
    LASC10061    Speech Processing (Hons)   20  
    LASC10033    Statistics and Experimental Design   20  
    LASC10058    Advanced Topics in Phonetics: Speech Production and Perception (Honours)   20  
    LASC10070    Current Issues in Morphology   20  
    LASC10046    Historical Phonology   20  
    LASC10035    Psycholinguistics   20  
    LASC10018    Simulating Language   20  
    LASC10062    Speech Synthesis   20  

    Notes:A booklet giving details about the courses being offered in any one year, as well as about restrictions on choice of courses, will be available to students entering the course to facilitate advance planning. Students MUST consult this handbook regarding the selection of 'core' courses.
     

    Select a minimum of 0 credits and maximum of 10 credits from Level 10 courses in Schedules A to Q, T and W, as available

    Notes:Students must take at least 40 credits worth of courses in the School in which they did not take their dissertation/ project.
     




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