Information science

compulsory

1st cycle

The course introduces basic terms and issues in the field of computer science and tools used by linguists and philologists in their professional work. Students learn about effective use of internet resources, data security and computer software licensing. In the class, students learn to design websites, get to know the components of office package software which enables creation of professionally formatted text documents, multimedial presentations, flow charts and figures, spreadshits and bibliographical databases. Aditionally, students get acquainted with software used for speech analysis purposes.

Year 1

The aims of the course assume development of the abilities to effectively use modern computer technologies.

- computer hygiene (disc formatting, operating system and software updates, antivirus software, firewalls, backups) and presentation of selected operating systems

- website creation in HTML, basic HTML tags (headlines, paragraphs, line break, horizontal line, comments, lists, tables, iamges, links, text formatting, tags attributes) and selected problems concerning website structure and its functioning on the server

- formal documents in the office package

document objects and their attributes

document structure

formatting of formal text documents (e.g. Master and Bachelor theses)

Pages: title page, left and right page, headers and footers, margins, columns, sections, page numbering

Plain text and headings - automatic numbering of document outline

Lists, notes, footnotes, special symbols

Images and references to images in the text

Quotation formatting

Tabels and their formatting, references to tabels in the text

Automatic creation of contents and lists of tables and images

- Additional topics:

automatic alphabetic index of terms used in the text, functions: "manual division" and "track/show changes", recording of macros, assigning keyboard shortcuts to macros, bibliographical database, document templates

- Using spreadsheets:

direct and relative cell adress, sorting and filtering of data, removal of duplicates, creation of graphs, using formulas, function "if", "paste special" command, spreadsheet printing

- creation of multimedial presentations

slide design, slide layout, master page

inserting hyperlinks, images, sounds, movies, spreadsheets

setting of a non-standard animation and slide transition

creation of flowcharts

- Spectrographic speech signal representation. Speech signal segmentation on the basis of spectrogram and phonetic transcription using a selected speech analysis software.

Recommended reading: Software documentation "Open Office" http://pl.openoffice.org/

Internet HTML tutorials, eg.:

HTML W3Schools Tutorials (in English): http://www.w3schools.com/html/html_getstarted.asp

A course in Polish: http://www.kurshtml.boo.pl/

SAMPA computer readable phonetic alphabet http://www.phon.ucl.ac.uk/home/sampa/index.html

Sjölander, K., Beskow, J., (2006) Dokumentacja techniczna programu "Wavesurfer", Stockholm http://www.speech.kth.se/wavesurfer/

Karpiński, M. (2002) The Corpus of Polish Intonational Database (PoInt) http://www.staff.amu.edu.pl/~inveling/pdf/maciej_karpinski_inve8.pdf

After the course the student:

- knows basic topics, terms and issues concerning the research in linguistics that use information technology (e.g. acoustic phonetics, speech technology, backups, applied text linguistics, spell check)

- has at least elementary knowledge of the relationship between philological science and computer science

- knows basic research and interpretation methods that apply to texts (especially scientific texts in the selected research domain and/or programming languages and speech technology)

- can individually find information on the use of software by referring to multimedial sources of information i.e. help or courses/tutorials/guides available on the Internet

- can effectively use office software to create text documents and multimedial presentations, to do calculations in the spreadsheets, to draw basic flowcharts

- knows basic rules of designing and maintaining of websites and can effectively use basic tags of HTML

- can use software for speech signal analysis on computer, text processing, summarizing of calculations and data analysis results, creating of statistical graphs

- knows how to take care of the computer, understands the issues of effective organization of work on the computer and the problem od data security

In order to pass it is required to provide files containing the results of the following tasks:

(a) segmentation and transcription of an utterance (in a wave file) according to specific criteria

(b) professionally formatted formal document (open source software is recommended, e.g. Libre Office or Open Office; final decision will be made by the person in charge of the course)

(c) document formatted using specified set of HTML tags/styles (or alternatively, individual project of the website realized using specified programming languages)

(d) multimedial presentation

(e) active participation in the class that will be continuously evaluated (an on-going control of tasks realized in the class)

Assessment methods:

evaluation of student's activity in the class

evaluation of correctness of the tasks realized in the class

evaluation of the project including the control of whether the project contains elements/functions that were not introduced in the class

evaluation of correctness of the project/structure, design and aesthetics of the formal document, multimedial presentation and calculations and graphs included in the spreadsheet

evaluation of correctness of the design and structure of the website (or other HTML document)

evaluation of correctness of speech analysis and statistical calculations carried out on text data