LING 5200 Corpus Linguistics (original) (raw)

Date

Topic

Readings

Due

Jan. 17, 19

Overview and Unix Intro
Unix Basics

John Searle, Chomsky's Revolution in Linguistics, Sec I; Unix, Chaps 2,3 (skip 43-48), 4 to p. 69

Lab: getting started with Unix

Jan 24,26

More on Unix and Corpus Annotation

In the Beginning was the Command Line, Neal Stephenson

HW1 due Jan 24

Lab: more Unix

Jan 31, Feb 2

Corpus Search, Unix and babel

Chaps 5,6,7,8 (ignore zsh/bash/ksh), Tutorial: Unix

HW2 due Feb 2

Lab: [grepping](Lab 3.doc)

Regular Expressions

Feb 7,9

More Regular expressions, Emacs & Xkwic

pg 158-163 (Unix), hour 12

HW3 due Feb 14

2/7 history and [ Vicky's notes ](Vicky's class note Feb7.doc)

Friendlier Regular Expressions

Feb 14,16

Linguistic Annotation, English and Chinese: Segmentation and POS tagging | Treebanking (1)

Guest Lecturer: Nianwen Xue

Feb 21, 23

Linguistic Annotation, English and Chinese: Treebanking (2) | English PropBank |Chinese Propbank

Guest Lecturer: Nianwen Xue

HW4 due Feb 28 Tree 1 Tree 2

Feb 28, Mar 2

Corpus Search: xkwic and tgrep

Tgrep

HW5 due March 9

Lab: Introduction to xkwic and tgrep

Corpus Workbench User Manual

Mar 7, 9

More xkwic and tgrep

HW6 due March 16

Mar 14, 16

Introduction to Python

Python Chaps 4,5

First Python Lab

Mar 21, 23

Lists and Functions (scripts from the 03-21-2006 lecture)

Python, Chap 6 and 12

HW7 Due March 23
Detailed project proposal

Names and Lists Lab

March 28, 30

SPRING BREAK!

Apr 4, 6

Loops and Files

Python Chaps 10,7

HW 8 Due April 11

For Loops and Files Lab

Apr 11, 13

Assignments, conditionals

Python Chaps 8, 9

HW 9 Due April 18

Conditionals Lab

Apr 18, 20

Dictionaries and Classes

Python Chap 7 and Chap 20

HW10, Due April 25

Dictionaries Lab

Python Code with Class def WordCount code

Apr 25, 27

NLTK-Lite, More Tgrep

Arabic keyboard input, Python version

May 2, 4

Python labs

May 10

Project presentations

3-6pm;