Identifying Data 2021/22
Subject (*) Corpus Linguistics and Computer Science in English Code 613505109
Study programme
Mestrado Universitario en Estudos Ingleses Avanzados e as súas Aplicacións (2019)
Descriptors Cycle Period Year Type Credits
Official Master's Degree 2nd four-month period
 First Optional 3
Language
English
Teaching method Face-to-face
Prerequisites
Department Letras
Coordinador
Moskowich-Spiegel Fandiño, Isabel
 E-mail
isabel.moskowich-spiegel.fandino@udc.es
Lecturers
Moskowich-Spiegel Fandiño, Isabel
 E-mail
isabel.moskowich-spiegel.fandino@udc.es
Web http://https://www.udc.es/grupos/muste/
General description A finalidade deste curso é a de presentar o campo da lingüística de corpus e metodoloxía baseada en corpus para o estudo lingüístico do inglés. Discutiranse asuntos xerais sobre o deseño, a recompilación e a análise lingüística de corpus. Nas sesións prácticas os estudantes aprenderán como facer búsquedas e analizar corpus de texto mediante ferramentas de software.
Contingency plan 1. Modificacións nos contidos
Os contidos non sufrirán modificacións

2. Metodoloxías
Manteranse as metodoloxías previstas

3. Mecanismos de atención personalizada ao alumnado
O alumnado será atendido por diversos medios telemáticos: correo electrónico, Teams a Moodle dentro das franxas horarias aprobadas polo centro

4. Modificacións na avaliación

Non haberá cambios na avaliación xa programada para docencia semipresencial

5. Modificacións da bibliografía ou webgrafía
Non hai cambios na bibliografía

Study programme competencies
Code Study programme competences
A1 E01 – Familiarity with the main research models in linguistic research.
A2 E02 – Familiarity with the main resources, tools and methodologies in linguistic research.
A14 E14 – Familiarity with and application of techniques and methods of quantitative linguistic analysis
B1 CB6 – Students should have the knowledge and understanding necessary to provide a basis or opportunity for originality in the development and/or application of ideas, often in a research context.
B3 CB8 - Students must be able to integrate knowledge and to deal with the complexity of judgement formulation starting with information, which might be incomplete or limited, and which includes reflections on social and ethical responsibilities linked to the application of their knowledge and judgement.
B6 G01 –The capacity to delve into those concepts, principles, theories or models related with the different fields of English Studies is a necessary skill, as is the ability to solve specific problems in a particular field of study via appropriate methodology.
B8 G03 – An efficient use of new information technology and communication in English Studies is a necessary skill.
B10 G05 – Skills related to research and the handling of new knowledge and information in the context of English Studies are to be acquired by students
B11 G06 – Students should be able to develop a critical sense in order to assess the relevance of both existing research in the fields of English Studies, and their own research.
B12 G07 –Linguistic competence (C2 level) in oral and written English must be developed and consolidated.
B14 G09 – Students are expected to be able to carry out research projects of an academic nature in the different fields of English Studies
B15 G10 – The ability to present and defend a research project using adequate terminology and resources appropriate to the field of study is a skill which should be acquired.

Learning aims
Learning outcomes Study programme competences
AR1
AR2
AR14
 BR1
BR3
BR6
BR8
BR10
BR11
BR12
BR14
BR15

Contents
Topic Sub-topic
1.Introduction (description vs. theory; corpus vs. computational linguistics; brief history of corpus linguistics).
2. What is a corpus? (defining a corpus, types of corpora, corpus resources).
3. Corpus design and compilation (size, representativeness, etc.).
4. Corpus annotation (tagging, parsing, other types of annotation).
5. Data retrieval (software tools, concordances, wildcards, keywords, word lists, etc.).
6. Data analysis (quantitative and qualitative analyses, normalized frequencies, frequency distribution, statistical significance).
7. Applications of corpora for the linguistic analysis of English.
Practical demonstrations with a selection of different corpora.

Planning
Methodologies / tests Competencies Ordinary class hours Student’s personal work hours Total hours
Guest lecture / keynote speech A14 B1 B3 10 5 15
ICT practicals B8 B10 B11 10 18 28
Oral presentation B6 B8 B10 B12 1 9 10
Practical test: A2 B12 B14 B15 1 18 19
Introductory activities A1 1 0 1
 
Personalized attention 2 0 2
 
(*)The information in the planning table is for guidance only and does not take into account the heterogeneity of the students.

Methodologies
Methodologies Description
Guest lecture / keynote speech Interactive lecturing on Corpus Linguistic Issues.
ICT practicals Hands-on sessions with software tools and corpora for text analysis.
Oral presentation Oral presentation of a case study. Students will have to provide a hand-out and a PowerPoint presentation.
Practical test: on the role of corpus linguistics as a framework/methodology for linguistic investigation.
Introductory activities Ice-breaking activities.

Personalized attention
Methodologies
ICT practicals
Description
Personal tutoring for specific support.

Assessment
Methodologies Competencies Description Qualification
ICT practicals B8 B10 B11 Hands-on sessions with software tools and corpora for text analysis. 30
Oral presentation B6 B8 B10 B12 Oral presentation of a case study. Students will have to provide a hand-out and a PowerPoint presentation. 30
Practical test: A2 B12 B14 B15 A test on the role of corpus linguistics as a framework/methodology for linguistic investigation. 40
 
Assessment comments

Second opportunity:

 

Students will have to repeat only those parts (exercises and case study)
in which they did not reach a pass in the first opportunity. In the second
opportunity the case study will be submitted as a written essay (between
2,000-3,000 words, excluding references).

 

Students officially exempt from class attendance:

 

Students will have
to hand in all course exercises (60%) and submit an essay on a case study
(between 2,000-3,000 words, excluding references) (40%).

All exercises and tests will be done in English. Overall correctness in
language and in the use of formal conventions is indispensable. Therefore,
grammatical and orthographic mistakes will be penalised.

Those who are officially registered as part-time students, and have been granted permission not to attend classes, as stipulated in the regulations of this University, will be assessed in either of the opportunities according to the same criteria specified for the second opportunity.

Part-time students who have been granted a "dispensa académica" must contact the teacher at the beginning of the semester in order to design the necessary changes and adjustments relating to the different activities to be carried out along the academic year.

LINGUISTIC ACCURACY

Both the theoretical and practical examination must meet the minimum requirements of linguistic correctness (spelling and grammar, punctuation, syntax concordance, lexical precision, or formal register). The level in English language expected of students is equivalent to a C1 level. Deficiencies in this area will be penalized in qualifying.

Essays and written work may be tested through Turnitin in order to detect wrong citations, plagiarism or any other type of fraud. Should this occur, the rules for plagiarism will be applied. (Normasde avaliación, revisión e reclamación das cualificacións dos estudos de grao emestrado universitario). Turnitin recognises papers previously turned in by other people (or the student him/herself) at this university or other universities, as well as other material found on Internet.

Sources of information
Basic

Aarts, Jan, Pieter de Haan & Nelleke Oostdijk (eds.). 1993. English language corpora: Design, analysis and exploitation. Amsterdam: Rodopi.

Baker, Paul. 2010. Sociolinguistics and corpus linguistics. Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press.

Baker, Paul, Andrew Hardie & Tony McEnery. 2006. A glossary of corpus linguistics. Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press.

Biber, Douglas, Susan Conrad & Randi Reppen. 1998. Corpus linguistics. Investigating language structure and use. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.

Biber, Douglas & Randi Reppen (eds.). 2015. The Cambridge handbook of English corpus linguistics. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.

Cantos, Pascual. 2011. Statistical methods in language and linguistic research. London: Equinox.

Hoffmann, Sebastian, Stefan Evert, Nick Smith, David Lee & Ylva Berglund Prytz. 2008. Corpus linguistics with BNCweb - a practical guide. Frankfurt am Main: Peter Lang.

Hunston, Susan. 2002. Corpora in applied linguistics. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.

Kennedy, Graeme. 1998. An introduction to corpus linguistics. London: Longman.

Kilgariff, Adam & Gregory Grefenstette. 2003. Introduction to the special issue on the web as corpus. Computational Linguistics 29(3). 333-347.

Lavid, Julia. 2005. Lenguaje y nuevas tecnologías. Nuevas perspectivas, métodos y herramientas para el lingüista del siglo XXI. Madrid: Cátedra.

Lindquist, Hans. 2009. Corpus linguistics and the description of English. Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press.

Lüdeling, Anke & Merja Kytö (eds.). 2008. Corpus linguistics. An international handbook. Volume I. Berlin/New York: Walter de Gruyter.

McEnery, Tony & Andrew Wilson. 1996. Corpus linguistics. Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press.

McEnery, Tony, Richard Xiao & Yukio Tono. 2006. Corpus-based language studies. An advanced resource book. London: Routledge.

Meyer, Charles. 2002. English corpus linguistics: An introduction. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.

Mitkov, Ruslan (ed.). 2003. The Oxford handbook of computational linguistics. Oxford: Oxford University Press.

Mukherjee, Joybrato. 2004. The state of the art in corpus linguistics: Three book-length perspectives. English Language and Linguistics 8(1). 103-119.

Oakes, Michael. 1998. Statistics for corpus linguistics. Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press.

Sinclair, John. 1991. Corpus, concordance, collocation. Oxford: Oxford University Press.

Stubbs, Michael. 1996. Text and corpus analysis. Oxford: Blackwell.
Complementary


Recommendations
Subjects that it is recommended to have taken before

Subjects that are recommended to be taken simultaneously
Cognition and Cognitive Processes in English/613505011
Contrastive Linguistics in English /613505111

Subjects that continue the syllabus

Other comments


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