The seminar is about the concept of Generative Grammar (GG) including (i) main ideas and GG sources, (ii) method of working as a scientific theory built on conventions of natural sciences (to distinguish from those of social sciences and humanities). Consequently, a specific phenomenon in Vietnamese is analysed. The seminar, on the other hand, offers an introduction on Computational Linguistics – an interdisciplinary field of Linguistics and Computation; Vietnamese Computational Linguistics and its application in education, e.g. teaching foreign languages to Vietnamese, teaching Vietnamese to foreigners, designing curricula, compiling dictionary, assessing linguistic competence, and checking plagiarism.
Key speaker: Dr. Phan Thị Huyền Trang, TDTU’s researcher and Associate Professor, Dr. Đinh Điền, Lecturer of Faculty of Information Technology, University of Science, Vietnam National University Ho Chi Minh City.
Time: 14.00; March 20th, 2018. (Tuesday)
Venue: Meeting Room A.101, TDTU; 19 Nguyen Huu Tho St., Tan Phong Ward, Dist. 7, Ho Chi Minh City.
Participants: lecturers from Creative Language Center, Center for Vietnamese Studies and Vietnamese Language for foreigners, Faculty of Social Sciences and Humanities, Faculty of Foreign Languages, Faculty of Information Technology, and other interested lecturers from TDTU
Registration: emailing to DEMASTED by March 16th, 2018 (email: demasted@tdt.edu.vn).
