Corpus-Based Methods
This course deals with corpus-based methods, that is, the large-scale study of written text, or spoken or signed utterances.
Contents: Data, methods and evidence in different linguistic traditions. Quantitative properties of language, frequencies, n-grams. Data collection for different types of corpora (including traditional sample corpora, monitor corpora and web corpora) and modalities (text, speech, signing). Representation of corpora in XML. Overview of computational linguistic methods for automatic segmentation and annotation of text, including tokenisation, part-of-speech tagging and syntactic analysis. Searching corpora using regular expressions. Analysis of corpora based on occurrences and co-occurrences. Relationship between corpus material and research questions. Ethics, copyright, licenses.
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Course structure
Teaching format
The course is based on lectures and laborations.
Assessment
The course is examined through written exams and reports.
Examiner
Beata Megyesi
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Schedule
The schedule will be available no later than one month before the start of the course. We do not recommend print-outs as changes can occur. At the start of the course, your department will advise where you can find your schedule during the course. -
Course literature
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Course reports
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Contact
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Contact information for student affairs
Student Office- Visiting address
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Tuesdays 9–10
Wednesdays 13–15
Thursdays 13–16
- Phone hours
Tuesdays 9–10
Wednesdays 13–15
Thursdays 9–11 and 13–16
