LING 5050: Technical tools for linguists, Maysession 2022 (May 10 - June 3)
Every week day 10:45-12:35
Oxley Hall 218 (Computational Linguistics Lab)
Instructor: Marie-Catherine de Marneffe
Office hours: Tuesday 1:00 - 2:00 (Oxley 203) or by 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 |
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| T 5/10 | Getting ready | Syllabus Unix for Poets | Install softwares |
| Unit 1: Basic data manipulations Case study: Do women talk more than men? |
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| W 5/11 | Introduction (slides) Unix: Navigating directories and counting (pdf) | Exercise 1 | |
| Th 5/12 | Python: Introduction and Processing a sentence (pdf) | Exercise 2 | |
| F 5/13 | Python: Processing a file (pdf) | Exercise 3 |
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| M 5/16 | Python: Decision making (pdf) | Exercise 4 |
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| T 5/17 | Python: Processing multiple files | Homework 1 given Short answer 1 due! |
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| Unit 2: Reading text and counting words Case study: Investigating Zipf's law |
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| W 5/18 | Python: Parallel lists (pdf) | Exercise 5 | |
| Th 5/19 | Python: Parallel lists | Exercise 6 Exercise 7 |
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| F 5/20 | Python: Dictionaries (pdf) | Exercise 8 HW1 due! |
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| M 5/23 | R: Plotting (pdf), Homework discussion | Kodi's ggplot tutorial | Homework 2 given |
Unit 3: R and Praat scripting Case study: Extracting measurements to make vowel space plots |
| T 5/24 | Data manipulation in R (pdf) | Dative paper | 1. "Recording" part of the Praat notes 2. Short answer 2 due! |
| W 5/25 | Praat: Annotation (pdf) | Sec. 11 of Styler's Praat tutorial | Finish your annotations |
| Th 5/26 | Praat via Python | 1. Automatic annotation 2. Homework 3 given |
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| F 5/27 | Plotting and analysis, Homework discussion | HW2 due! | Unit 4: Dealing with linguistic structured representations Case study: Which verbs allow the dative alternation? |
| M 5/30 | Memorial Day - No class | ||
| T 5/31 | Reading a treebank (pdf) | Short answer 3 due! | |
| W 6/01 | Searching a treebank | ||
| Th 6/02 | Searching a treebank | Please fill in SEIs! | |
| F 6/03 | Internationalization | HW3 due! | |