APG5139 Using language data and technology
Faculty of Arts
APG5139 Using language data and technology is a level 5, 6-credit-point, postgraduate unit from the Faculty of Arts, offered in 2025 in Semester 2 at Clayton. It has no prerequisites.
- Credit points
- 6
- Offered in 2025
- Semester 2
- Clayton
- Assessment
- No exam
- 3 tasks
- Workload
- 144 hours
- per semester
This is the 2025 handbook entry. See the 2027 entry.
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Requisites
Before APG5139
No prerequisites or corequisites besides the enrolment rules below.
After APG5139
No unit lists APG5139 as a prerequisite in the 2025 handbook.
Enrolment rules
Co-requisite: Must be enrolled in Masters or Graduate Certificate by coursework
Overview
In this unit, students will explore the growing need for large-scale language data in identifying patterns and trends in language use across multimedia, multimodal, and multilingual contexts. Students will develop skills to understand and critically evaluate various types of language data and recent technologies, such as digital tools, machine translation, and generative AI. Students will also develop transferable skills for utilising and analysing language data, emphasizing methods in corpus linguistics, incorporating both quantitative and qualitative viewpoints and approaches, and contextualising findings in academic and professional contexts. Additionally, students will consider the importance of ethical considerations when employing such data and technologies.
Offerings in 2025
| Teaching period | Campus | Mode |
|---|---|---|
| Second semester | Clayton | On campus |
| Second semester | Clayton | Online |
Assessment
- ExercisesExercise35%
- Language data analysisExercise40%
- Language data, technologies, and ethicsProject25%
Learning outcomes
When you finish this unit, you should be able to:
- 1
Critically evaluate various types of language data and related technologies employed across academic and professional domains;
- 2
Utilise transferable skills for accessing and analysing language data and technologies, including data interpretation literacy;
- 3
Employ a critical perspective on data analysis and representation to effectively contextualise and interpret findings in research and professional settings;
- 4
Apply the ethical use of language data and technologies to ethically harness language data in academic research and practical contexts.
Workload and teaching
- Lectures12 hours
- Tutorials24 hours
- Teaching approachOnline learning
- Teaching approachActive learning
Minimum total expected workload to achieve the learning outcomes for this unit is 144 hours per semester typically comprising a mixture of scheduled learning activities and independent study. Scheduled activities may include a combination of teacher directed learning, peer directed learning and online engagement.
Students will engage in pre-class activities and exercises on Moodle to learn core concepts and prepare for in-depth discussions and activities in tutorials.
Students will participate in interactive tutorials including group discussions and activities to develop their skills, and engage in assignments designed to apply their acquired skills and knowledge.
Contacts
- Chief Examiners
- Dr Satoshi Nambu
- Unit Coordinators
- Dr Satoshi Nambu
Common questions
What are the prerequisites for APG5139?
APG5139 has no prerequisites, but enrolment rules apply.
When is APG5139 offered?
In 2025, APG5139 runs in Semester 2 at Clayton, with an online option.
How much work is APG5139?
The handbook expects about 144 hours of study across the semester. No students have rated its difficulty yet.
Does APG5139 have an exam?
No. APG5139 has 3 assessment tasks and no exam.