Methods for Handling of Text Data, 7,5 ECTS
The course is offered by the Department of Linguistics as a part of the Doctoral School in the Humanities. The course is offered during the spring semester of 2023.
Methods for Handling of Text Data, 7,5 ECTS
Course content
The goal of the course is to introduce fundamental methodological skills for sampling, collecting, preparing, annotating and analyzing textual data in social science and the humanities. The students learn fundamental theoretical concepts and obtain practical experience of tools and methods, including the following: The relation between research questions, data collection and types of corpora. Text processing in the Unix shell. Regular expressions. Quantitative properties of language. Frequencies, occurrences and co-occurrences. Manual and data-driven annotation. Automatic annotation and analysis of text using existing tools.
Learning outcomes
In order to pass the course, students are expected to be able to:
- describe and apply methods for sampling, collecting and pre-processing of (digitized) material for text corpora
- describe and apply digital methods for annotation and analysis of textual data, in order to answer a given set of research questions
Practical information
Mandatory elements
Attendance of at least 90% of all lectures and lab sessions is mandatory.
Examination
The course is examined through written lab reports.
Instruction
Teaching activities include lectures and lab sessions.
NB. The course is offered on campus and online, in a hybrid environment.
Period: 2023-03-06 - 2023-05-07
Course dates: Link to TimeEdit
Language of instruction: English
Course plan:
LI102FU Methods for Handling of Text Data (455 Kb)
Apply to the course
Application
Applications for courses starting in the spring semester 2023 are received between November 15 and December 15. Letters of confirmation are sent out shortly afterwards.
All applications are sent by the supervisor to: doctoralschool@hum.su.se. Official transcript of records, or certificate of registration, verifying the applicant's status as doctoral student should be enclosed with the application.
All courses are free of charge, and they are open to all who are admitted to studies on PhD-level, regardless of faculty or university. Prerequisites and special admittance requirements may apply for some courses.
Application form for place in a joint faculty course (294 Kb)
How do I apply?
The application form (see above) is used to apply for a place in a course. The supervisor (or equivalent) must support the doctoral student’s application with a motivation as to why the doctoral student should participate in the course. The supervisor also submits the proposal to the following address: doctoralschool@hum.su.se.
Who can apply?
The Faculty of Humanities’ doctoral students have priority for places, and external doctoral students (from Stockholm University or another university) can be admitted to a course subject to availability. External doctoral students will be registered in Ladok in order to enable the Board to monitor all participants in a course.
Contact
Course director: Robert Östling
Course title in Swedish: Metoder för hantering av textdata
The course is offered by the Department of Linguistics.
Last updated: December 21, 2022
Source: Humanistiska fakultetsnämnden