Computational Tools for Corpus Linguistics
WS2014/2015 Tue 12:30 - 14:00 23.21.04.87

Lecture Slides & Materials

28.10.2014
Course overview.
Corpus linguistics basics: definitions of a corpus, taxonomies of corpora, methodology or a theory, corpus-based vs. corpus-driven approach, main fields of application of corpus linguistics, historical roots of data-intensive linguistics, corpus design.

  • Introductory Notes

  • Tony McEnery, Richard Xiao and Yukio Tono (2006). Corpus-Based Language Studies. London: Routledge, Unit A1

  • Chris Brew and Marc Moens. Data-Intensive Linguistics

    • 04.11.2014
    Corpus linguistics basics (cont.): representativeness, ballance & sampling, mark-up & annotation.
    British National Corpus (BNC).

  • Introductory Notes 2

  • Tony McEnery, Richard Xiao and Yukio Tono (2006). Corpus-Based Language Studies. London: Routledge, Units A2 - A4

  • BNC User Guide

    • 11.11.2014
    Multilingual corpora, statistical data.
    DIY corpora.

  • Tony McEnery, Richard Xiao and Yukio Tono (2006). Corpus-Based Language Studies. London: Routledge, Units A5 - A6

  • Tony McEnery, Richard Xiao and Yukio Tono (2006). Corpus-Based Language Studies. London: Routledge, Units A8 - A9

    • 18.11.2014
    Unix basics, unix tools.

  • Sessions, Files, Directories

  • Ownership and Protection

    • 25.11.2014
    Unix tools.

  • Accessing, filtering and manipulating file contents

  • Exercises I

  • Solutions I

    • 02.12.2014
    Tokenizer.

  • TR and SED

  • simple_tokenizer

    • 09.12.2014
    Frequency lists.

  • txt2freq

  • frequency

    • 16.12.2014
    N-grams.

  • ngrams

    • 06.01.2015
    HTML-stripper.

  • simple_ml-stripper.sht

    • 13.01.2015
    Extract information from annotated corpora.

  • extract-mpt-xml-pos.sh

    • 20.01.2015
    KWIC (keyword in context).

  • kwic_html_table.sh

    • 27.01.2015
    AWK.

  • The AWK Programming Language

  • Awk — A Pattern Scanning and Processing Language (short version)

  • GAWK: Effective AWK Programming

    • 03.02.2015
    Exercises

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