Postgraduate Course: Individual Project in Advanced Natural Language Processing (80 credits) (INFR11204)
This course will be closed from 31 July 2024
Course Outline
| School | School of Informatics |
College | College of Science and Engineering |
| Credit level (Normal year taken) | SCQF Level 11 (Postgraduate) |
Availability | Not available to visiting students |
| SCQF Credits | 80 |
ECTS Credits | 40 |
| Summary | This course requires students to undertake a significant piece of individual, self-directed research in natural language processing, developed in consultation with a member of staff. The project requires the application of skills learned through other courses and requires the development and synthesis of new skills, including problem-solving and communication skills. |
| Course description |
This course requires students to undertake a significant piece of individual, self-directed research in natural language processing, developed in consultation with a member of staff. The project requires the application of skills learned through other courses and requires the development and synthesis of new skills, including:
* The ability to identify new research questions in NLP based on a review of the literature.
* The ability to design and carry out experiments, implement systems, or prove mathematical results needed to answer NLP research questions.
* The ability to communicate novel scientific results orally and in writing.
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Course Delivery Information
| Not being delivered |
Learning Outcomes
On completion of this course, the student will be able to:
- identify a specific research question in natural language processing and propose experimental, mathematical, or engineering methods to answer it
- carry out and precisely document methods to answer research questions in natural language processing
- communicate novel research results in natural language processing to a scientific audience orally and in writing
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Additional Information
| Graduate Attributes and Skills |
Students on the course will develop skills in using a range of specialised skills, techniques, practices and/or materials that are at the forefront of, or informed by forefront developments; In applying a range of standard and specialised research and/or equivalent instruments and techniques of enquiry; planning and executing a significant project of research, investigation or development; demonstrating originality and/or creativity, including in practices; exercise substantial autonomy and initiative in professional and equivalent activities. |
| Special Arrangements |
This course is ONLY available to students on the first year of the PhD with Integrated Study in Natural Language Processing. |
| Keywords | Natural language processing,research skills |
Contacts
| Course organiser | Dr Frank Keller
Tel:
Email: Frank.Keller@ed.ac.uk |
Course secretary | Ms Lindsay Seal
Tel: (0131 6)50 5194
Email: lindsay.seal@ed.ac.uk |
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