University of Manchester, School of Informatics (UMAN)

Contact person: Prof. Dr. Harold Somers (Interactive Systems Design Group)

PO Box 88

Manchester M60 1QD , United Kingdom

Tel: +44161 306 3107

Fax: +44161 306 3373

e-mail: Harold.Somers@manchester.ac.uk

http://www.co.umist.ac.uk/~harold/

Role:

• Collective development-curricula, dissemination and marketing
• Teaching program for the Module Phonetics and Phonology, Theoretical Linguistics, Natural Language Processing Programming User.Languages, Cognitive Models for Speech and Language Processing, Language Engineering, Applications
• Advanced courses in the main points:Knowledge presentation and language comprehension
• Coordination of the dissertation in:Knowledge presentation, Semantic Web, Text Mining, Information Retrieval.

Courses offered:

Module	CP	Courses	Semester	European Master equivalence
Text mining	15 15 15 15 15 15 75	-Data mining -Knowledge Representation and Semantic Web -Information Retrieval -Natural Language Processing -Text Mining Applications -Research Methods -Dissertation	1 2 1 1 1&2 2 3	Module 7 Module 7 Module 7 Module 2 Module 7
Spoken Language Systems	15 15 15 15 15 15 15 75	-Spoken language systems -Natural Language Processing -Speech processing -HCI -Research and Professional Development -Computational Semantics -Dialogue Systems -Dissertation	1&2 1 1 1 2 2 2 3	Module 7 Module 2 Module 4 Module 7 Module 2 Module 7

Text Mining Applications spans both semesters. The first semester is supposed to be partly lectures that explain the connections between the other units and partly seminars from visiting industrial speakers, and the second is largely a practical course, so it would be possible to take one part without the other.

Our semester dates for 2007-8 are 17/9--14/12, with exams during the period 14/1--25/1, and then 26/1--14/4, with exams in the period 14/4--6/6. Semester 3 is the period from 6/6--8/9 during which students carry out their dissertation.