LING 590

Fall 2017

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Credit: 2 TO 8 hours.

Individual studies in the areas of linguistics not covered by regular course offerings.

May be repeated.

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10528
Independent Study
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1
Date Range:
08/28/17-12/13/17
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22252
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Girju, C
Part of Term:
1
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08/28/17-12/13/17
Section Info:
Topic: Advances in computer technology have revolutionized the ways linguists can approach their data. By using computers, we can access large bodies of text and speech corpora to help linguistic analysis in most linguistic sub-disciplines. This course is an introduction to computational research methods applied to large natural language corpora. Corpora give us a chance to uncover complexities in naturally-occurring data and explore issues related to frequency of usage. Another benefit of this course is that it will give students the tools to manage data efficiently. The first part of the course will introduce students to corpus concepts and methods. The second part will cover computational skills needed to build, annotate, and search a corpus for patterns and phenomena of interest. The third part of the course will give students hands-on corpus analysis experience. Topics include syntax (i.e., patterns and alternations), lexical semantics, language variation, second language acquisition, phonetics/phonology/speech, pragmatics, discourse analysis, psycholinguistics (i.e., disfluencies and first language acquisition), and others. Prerequisites: No programming experience is assumed, familiarity with computers is presupposed.Students who took LING402 or equivalent introduction-to-programming courses and want to learn more about corpus building, annotation, and analysis are welcome.
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