Syllabus

• WWW browsing, advanced search and information retrieval methods
  • benchmarking popular web search engines (comparing the number of hits for a given phrase)
  • overview of advanced search methods in Google (see also here) and Bing / Live Search (see also here)
  • preparing a cloze-like exercise out of a selected web page (sharing with other students by e-mail, CC: to the teacher)
  • introduction to Dave Gorman's Googlewhack Adventure and googlewhacking itself
• On-line dictionaries,
  • OneLook
  • WordNet
  • Ergane
  encyclopedias
  • Wikipedia
  and literature databases
  • Project Gutenberg
  • Litrix Reading Room
  • Bibliomania
• Phonetic transcription with IPAPhon symbols and Unicode symbols
• Machine translation (MT) and computer-assisted translation (CAT) with selected on-line resources
  • Megaslownik,
  • LING.PL,
  • Multislownik,
  • e-Dict,
  • Onet.pl,
  • Angool.com,
  • LingvoBit,
  • SYSTRAN,
  • Poleng/Translatica
  • MTranslator
  • Google Translate
  - translating fragments of literary text from Polish into English and v.v., comparing to the original
  - avoiding naive/literal translation.
• Introduction to markup languages (HTML, LaTeX)
• Developing simple interactive web pages (JavaScript) - preparing interactive cloze-like exercises
• Basic algorithmics and creating active multimedia content (Scratch)
• Final test/assessment