Teaching GuideTerm Faculty of Philology |
Mestrado Universitario en Estudos Ingleses Avanzados e as súas Aplicacións (2019) |
Subjects |
Corpus Linguistics and Computer Science in English |
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Identifying Data | 2023/24 | |||||||||||||
Subject | Corpus Linguistics and Computer Science in English | Code | 613505109 | |||||||||||
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Descriptors | Cycle | Period | Year | Type | Credits | |||||||||
Official Master's Degree | 2nd four-month period |
First | Optional | 3 | ||||||||||
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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. |
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