
Digital Semantics and Pragmatics
The study course is primarily aimed at developing high proficiency level competences and skills of the students mastering study programmes in different fields of humanities, social sciences, communication and human behavior sciences, interdisciplinary STEM+, and information technology. The study course is intended to provide a comprehensive overview of the fundamental issues associated with the retrieval, collection, organization, and processing of semantic and pragmatic data. The students will get acquainted with the state-of-the-art in the area of natural language processing (NLP) and natural language generation (NLG).
Upon completion of the study course, you will be able to:
- actively participate in the work of various NLP technology development teams,
- conduct research in the field of digital semantics and pragmatics and solve a range of knowledge management tasks,
- co-create and/or create solutions to complex problems with limited definition that are related to modifying, refining, improving and integrating new content and information into the existing knowledge of digital semantics and pragmatics to create new and original ideas.
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About Instructor
Tatjana Smirnova
Tatjana Smirnova is an associate professor at the Institute of Applied Linguistics, Faculty of E-Learning Technologies and Humanities at Riga Technical University (RTU). Her research interests cover linguistic iconicity, cross-disciplinary semiotics and axiological aspects of language use. She has authored and co-authored more than 40 publications on linguistic iconicity, functional approach to LSP translation, and aspects of LSP teaching. Tatjana Smirnova has extensive experience in LSP text translation and editing in such fields as civil engineering, architecture, and entrepreneurship, as well as institutional, administrative, and legal communication.
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