OSU Mini-institute: Corpus-based Computational Linguistics (Chris Brew and Mike White)

Slides

• First day slides
• Tree bank overview
• Corpus design
• Bird, Loper and Klein's nltk tagging slides
• Third day slides
• Fourth day slides
• Fifth day slides
• Fifth day wrapup

Activities

• Using NLTK (transcript)
• Searching the Penn Treebank with Tregex
• Searching the PTB Answer Sheet
• Searching the CCGbank with Tregex
• Searching the CCGbank Answer Sheet
• Doing Surgery on the Penn Treebank with Tsurgeon
• Doing Surgery on the PTB Answer Files

Miscellany

• Jean Veronis on Google Counts
• Adam Kilgarriff on attempts to do science with Google counts: "Googleology is bad science", a squib from Computational Linguistics (2007, v33, 1)