LING 5050: Technical tools for linguists, Maysession 2020 (May 13 - June 8)

Every week day 10:45-12:35 on Zoom
Instructor: Marie-Catherine de Marneffe
Office hours: Email me for an appointment

Schedule

Note that schedule is subject to change.
Assignments that have to be turned in are due by class time (10:45) on their due date.

Days	Topics	Readings	Assignments
Unit 1: Basic data manipulations Case study: Do women talk more than men?
W 5/13	Introduction (slides) Unix: Navigating directories and counting (pdf)		Exercise 1
Th 5/14	Python: Introduction and Processing a sentence (pdf)		Exercise 2
F 5/15	Python: Processing a file (pdf)		Exercise 3

M 5/18	Python: Decision making (pdf)		Exercise 4
T 5/19	Python: Processing multiple files		Homework 1 Short answer 1 due!
Unit 2: Reading text and counting words Case study: Investigating Zipf's law
W 5/20	Python: Parallel lists (pdf)		Exercise 5
Th 5/21	Python: Parallel lists		Exercise 6 Exercise 7
F 5/22	Python: Dictionaries (pdf)		Exercise 8 HW1 due!

M 5/25	Memorial Day -- No class
T 5/26	R: Plotting (pdf), Homework discussion	Kodi's ggplot tutorial	Homework 2 Short answer 2 due!
Unit 3: R and Praat scripting Case study: Extracting measurements to make vowel space plots
W 5/27	Data manipulation in R (pdf)	Dative paper	"Recording" part of the Praat notes
Th 5/28	Praat: Annotation (pdf)	Sec. 11 of Styler's Praat tutorial	Finish your annotations
F 5/29	Praat via Python		1. Automatic annotation 2. Homework 3 3. HW2 due!

M 6/01	Plotting and analysis, Homework discussion
Unit 4: Dealing with linguistic structured representations Case study: Which verbs allow the dative alternation?
T 6/02	Reading a treebank (pdf)		Short answer 3 due!
W 6/03	Searching a treebank
Th 6/04	Searching a treebank
F 6/05	Searching a treebank		HW3 due!

M 6/08	Internationalization		Please fill in SEIs!