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Education

The Bulgarian Association for Computational Linguistics is a co-establisher of the Master`s program in Computational Linguistics at the Faculty of Slavic Languages at Sofia University "St. Kliment Ohridski". The BACL members are among the main lecturers` staff on the program. The main goals of the program are to provide profound knowledge in computer science technologies, automatic text processing, contemporary language technologies and formal theories for natural language description and processing.

Compulsory lecture courses and seminars

• General theory of the formal description of natural languages. Formal approaches in phonetics, morphology, syntax, semantics and pragmatics. Case theory. Chomsky`s theories.
• Introduction to Computational Linguistics - Automatic Natural Language Generation and Recognition. Speech Generation and Recognition. Morphological and Syntactic parsing. Fundaments of Machine translation.
• Mathematics and logic for students in philology. Comparison of mathematical and natural languages. Propositional and predicate logic. Elementary set theory. Functions and relations. Trees and graphs.
• Introduction to computer science. Computer systems. Operational systems. Programming languages and algorithms.
• Introduction to mark-up languages. Fundaments, history and modern development of the languages for encoding and processing electronic publications and data bases - SGML (Standard Generalized Markup Language), HTML (HyperText Markup Language), XML (Extensible Markup Language) and some of their applications. 
• Modern linguistic theories - Lexical-functional grammar. Categorial grammar. Phrase-structure grammars.
• Computational morphology and syntax - Analysis and generation of word forms. Phonetic alternations. Finite-state transducers in the implementation of grammar dictionaries. Disambiguation. Sentence analysis and generation. Contemporary syntactic and grammatical formalisms. Shallow parsing and Deep (full) sentence parsing.
• Formal grammars and automata - Formal languages, Chomsky`s hierarchy of formal grammars. Automata theory.
• Electronic literature and culture. A lecture course focused on the issues of authorship and the status of the artist in the Global Net, the genre modifications of the electronic literature (hypertext, multimedia, interactive literature, machine generated text, htmlart, "Netlore") as well as the characteristics of a readers`perspective allowing for current editing and interfering in the original text.
• Electronic libraries. Presentation of old and contemporary texts in electronic form.General and specific issues in presenting textual information - transliteration, transcription and encoding of alphabetic characters in electronic form. Creation of electronic reference books and catalogues. Processing of the information in electronic form. The electronic book and bibliographic information.