Informatics 2A: Processing Formal and Natural Languages (2018-19)
Inf2A Announcements
Drop-in office hours (semester 1):
- Mary Cryan (IF 5.18): 14:00-15:00 on Thursdays
- Shay Cohen (IF 4.26): 12.00-13.00 on
Mondays
Details of Lab times can be seen here.
Inf2A Webpages
Lectures
- Mondays: 15:10 - 16:00, 50 George Square, G.03
- Wednesdays: 14:10 - 15:00, 50 George Square, G.03
- Fridays: 14:10 - 15:00, Appleton Tower, Lecture Theatre 4
First lecture is Monday 17 September, last lecture is Tuesday 28 November.
Tutorials and Lab Sessions
Tutorial group allocations will be confirmed within the first two weeks of the course.
If you need to change your tutorial group, please email the Course Secretary
Kendal Reid using the ITO email (ito@inf.ed.ac.uk) to arrange this.
Lab sessions will run in Weeks 3,4,5,6,10 and 11.
In order to keep the numbers even, please try to attend the session
you are allocated to if possible; otherwise, you may just turn up to
another session without prior arrangement.
Software
As part of this course, you will learn how to program in
Python, and how to use
NLTK, the Natural Language Toolkit.
The
Lab Materials page has worksheets to
help you get to grips with these.
Exam
The Inf2A exam will take place in December (resit in August).
The exam date, time and venue will be publicized here when available
(these are set by Registry, not by the School of Informatics).
It will be a closed book exam, similar in format to last year's Inf2A exam.
Calculators are permitted, but you must provide your own, and it must be
one of an approved list of models specified by College.
Feedback
The course will provide students with both
summative feedback
on their performance (i.e. feedback on assessed coursework that
contributes to the final course mark) and
formative feedback
(i.e. feedback on aspects of the course not contributing to the final mark).
Summative feedback will include:
- Printed feedback on each assignment, including automatic tests run
on the student's submission, the results of such tests, and additional
comments by a human marker where appropriate. This will be made available
to students within two weeks of the assignment submission deadline.
- Oral feedback on Assignment 1 submissions, given at the lab sessions
in Weeks 9 and 10.
Formative feedback will include:
- Oral feedback given by tutors in tutorials on students' solutions to
tutorial problems (this will help students to prepare for similar
questions in the course exam).
- Oral feedback given by demonstrators in lab sessions on students'
solutions to the exercises on the Python/NLTK worksheets (this will
help students to develop the skills required for Assignment 2).
Class Reps
If you wish to make a comment to the lecturers anonymously,
you may do so through the class reps for Year 2 courses.
Contact details are given on the
Student Representation page.