LING 5050: Technical tools for linguists, Maysession 2018
Every week day 10:45-12:35
Oxley Hall 218 (Computational Linguistics Lab)
Instructor: Marie-Catherine de Marneffe
Office hours: Monday 1:00-2:00 or by appointment
Oxley Hall 203
Schedule
Note that schedule is subject to change.Homeworks that have to be turned in are due by class time (10:45) on their due date.
| Days | Topics | Readings | Assignments |
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| Unit 1: Basic data manipulations Case study: Do women talk more than men? |
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| W 5/09 | Introduction (slides) Unix: Navigating directories and counting (pdf) | Exercise 1 | |
| Th 5/10 | Python: Introduction and Processing a sentence (pdf) | Exercise 2 | |
| F 5/11 | Python: Processing a file (pdf) | Exercise 3 |
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| M 5/14 | Python: Decision making (pdf) | Exercise 4 |
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| T 5/15 | Python: Processing multiple files | Homework 1 | |
| Unit 2: Reading text and counting words Case study: Investigating Zipf's law |
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| W 5/16 | Python: Parallel lists (pdf) | Exercise 5 |
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| Th 5/17 | Python: Parallel lists | Exercise 6 Exercise 7 |
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| F 5/18 | Python: Dictionaries (pdf) | Exercise 8 HW1 due! |
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| M 5/21 | R: Plotting (pdf), Homework discussion | Kodi's ggplot tutorial | Homework 2 | Unit 3: R and Praat scripting Case study: Extracting measurements to make vowel space plots |
| T 5/22 | Data manipulation in R (pdf) | Dative paper | "Recording" part of the Praat notes |
| W 5/23 | Praat: Annotation (pdf) | Sec. 11 of Styler's Praat tutorial | Finish your annotations |
| Th 5/24 | Praat: Scripting | Automatic annotation | |
| F 5/25 | Plotting and analysis, Homework discussion | Homework 3 HW2 due! |
Unit 4: Dealing with linguistic structured representations Case study: Which verbs allow the dative alternation? |
| T 5/29 | Reading a treebank (pdf) | ||
| W 5/30 | Searching a treebank | ||
| Th 5/31 | Searching a treebank | HW3 due! | |
| F 6/01 | Internationalization | Please fill in SEIs! | |