Linguistics Computing

Linguistic Computing (LingC)

200-Level Courses

LINGC 200 : Basic Humanities Computing Skills.

WHEN TAUGHT:	Fall; Winter
PREREQUISITE:	Word processing experience.
DESCRIPTION:	Software applications for computer-based instruction, academic publishing, and research; introduction to programming new applications.

Course Outcomes

LINGC 220 : Linguistic Computing Programming 1.

WHEN TAUGHT:	Fall; Winter
PREREQUISITE:	LingC 200 or C S 100 or equivalent experience.
DESCRIPTION:	Computer programming for language applications: data types, character representation, flow of control, file input/output, string manipulation.

Course Outcomes

LINGC 260 : (LingC-CHum) Text Processing and Analysis.

WHEN TAUGHT:	Fall
PREREQUISITE:	LingC 200 or C S 100 or equivalent experience.
DESCRIPTION:	Applications of computer technology to research in language and literature: text processing, retrieval, and analysis tools for text corpora and online resources.

Course Outcomes

300-Level Courses

LINGC 355 : (LingC-CHum) Text Encoding and Markup.

WHEN TAUGHT:	Winter
PREREQUISITE:	CHUM 250; or CHUM 260; or LINGC 260
DESCRIPTION:	Principles of markup languages (SGML, XML, etc.) and encoding standards for academic content. Practical experience encoding, processing, and delivering marked-up data.

Course Outcomes

LINGC 360 : International Software and Text Processing.

WHEN TAUGHT:	Winter
PREREQUISITE:	LingC 220 or equivalent experience.
DESCRIPTION:	Developing international software that can be available in English and other languages. Globalization, internationalization, localization, Unicode, fonts, multilingual user interfaces, and working with foreign language texts.

Course Outcomes

LINGC 361 : Speech Processing.

WHEN TAUGHT:	On Demand
PREREQUISITE:	Programming experience; instructor's consent.
DESCRIPTION:	Analyzing and manipulating speech data. Developing software applications that include speech recognition and/or speech generation.

Course Outcomes

400-Level Courses

LINGC 489R : Linguistic Computing Project.

WHEN TAUGHT:	Fall; Winter
PREREQUISITE:	Any 300-level linguistic computing course.
DESCRIPTION:	Applying principles from other courses to a substantial research or development project. Students work individually with faculty and technical advisors.

Course Outcomes

LINGC 490R : Current Topics and Issues.

WHEN TAUGHT:	On Demand
PREREQUISITE:	Instructor's consent.
DESCRIPTION:	Individual or group study of current issues and developments in linguistic computing. Extended readings; research or project required.

Course Outcomes

LINGC 496R : Academic Internship: Linguistic Computing.

WHEN TAUGHT:	On Demand
PREREQUISITE:	LingC 300-level course or equivalent experience.
DESCRIPTION:	On-the-job experience in publishing production (print or electronic), courseware/software development, museum/collection/textbase management, language/linguistics research, or other application of linguistic computing.

Course Outcomes