- Docente: Valentina Presutti
- Credits: 3
- Language: Italian
- Teaching Mode: Traditional lectures
- Campus: Bologna
- Corso: Second cycle degree programme (LM) in Language, Society and Communication (cod. 8874)
Learning outcomes
The student knows how to apply specific software and informatics programmes to language and communication ambits.
Course contents
This course aims at providing the student with an understanding of informatics and artificial intelligence, with specific focus on its current applications.
The topics addressed in the course are summarised as follow:
- Essential elements of informatics and historical goals
- Architecture and functioning of computers
- What it means to write a program
- Current technologies: Artificial Intelligence (overview of applications and methods)
Readings/Bibliography
Notes, slides and exercises are available at https://virtuale.unibo.it/
Topics not addressed by the notes and other material on iol are to be studied on the following books / articles:
- Andrew S. Tanenbaum and Todd Austin: Structured Computer Organisation 6th Edition. Pearson, 2013. (Chapters 1 and 2)
- Johan van Benthem, Hans van Ditmarsch, Jan van Eijck, Jan Jaspars: Logic in action (2006) reperibile online: http://www.logicinaction.org/
- Dean Allemang and James Hendler. 2008. Semantic Web for the Working Ontologist: Effective Modeling in RDFS and OWL. Morgan Kaufmann Publishers Inc., San Francisco, CA, USA.
- Pascal Hitzler, Aldo Gangemi, Krzysztof Janowicz, Adila Krisnadhi, Valentina Presutti: Ontology Engineering with Ontology Design Patterns - Foundations and Applications. Studies on the Semantic Web 25, IOS Press 2016, ISBN 978-1-61499-675-0
Teaching methods
Lectures
Assessment methods
The assessment for this module is integrated with the assessment of the module "Information Technology Skills". Please, refer to that module for details.
Teaching tools
Slides, they will be projected during the lectures and put online on the course web page.
Office hours
See the website of Valentina Presutti