LING 5050: Technical tools for linguists, Maysession 2014
Every week day 10:00-11:50
Campbell Hall 119
Instructors: Marie-Catherine de Marneffe and Micha Elsner
Office hours: Thursday 1:00-2:00 or by appointment
Oxley Hall, room 201A
Schedule
Note that schedule is subject to change.Homeworks that have to be turned in are due by class time (10:00) on their due date.
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| Unit 1: Basic data manipulations Case study: Do women talk more than men? |
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| 5/5 | Introduction (slides) Unix: Navigating directories (pdf) | Exercise 1 | |
| 5/6 | Unix: counting (pdf) Python: Introduction (pdf) | Exercise 2 | |
| 5/7 | Python: Processing a sentence (pdf) | Exercise 3 |
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| 5/8 | Python: Processing a file and decision making (pdf) | Exercise 4 |
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| 5/9 | Python: Processing multiple files | Homework 1 | |
| Unit 2: Reading text and counting words Case study: Investigating Zipf's law |
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| 5/12 | Python: Parallel lists (pdf) | Exercise 5 |
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| 5/13 | Python: Parallel lists | Exercise 6 |
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| 5/14 | Python: Dictionaries (pdf) | Exercise 7 Exercise 8 |
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| 5/15 | Python: Plotting (pdf) | ||
| 5/16 | Homework discussion | Homework 2 | |
| Unit 3: R and Praat scripting Case study: Extracting measurements to make vowel space plots |
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| 5/19 | Data manipulation in R (pdf) | "Recording" part of the Praat notes | |
| 5/20 | Praat: Annotation (pdf) | Sec. 11 of Styler's Praat tutorial | Finish your annotations |
| 5/21 | Praat: Scripting | Automatic annotation | |
| 5/22 | Plotting and analysis | ||
| 5/23 | Homework discussion | Homework 3 | |
| Unit 4: Dealing with linguistic structured representations Case study: Which verbs allow the dative alternation? |
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| 5/27 | Reading a treebank (pdf) | Please fill in SEIs! | |
| 5/28 | Searching a treebank | ||
| 5/29 | Searching a treebank | ||
| 5/30 | Internationalization | ||