Schedule

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.

DaysTopicsReadingsAssignments
Unit 1: Basic data manipulations
Case study: Do women talk more than men?
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
5/8 Python: Processing a file and decision making (pdf) Exercise 4
5/9 Python: Processing multiple filesHomework 1
Unit 2: Reading text and counting words
Case study: Investigating Zipf's law
5/12 Python: Parallel lists (pdf) Exercise 5
5/13 Python: Parallel listsExercise 6
5/14 Python: Dictionaries (pdf)Exercise 7
Exercise 8
5/15 Python: Plotting (pdf)
5/16 Homework discussionHomework 2
Unit 3: R and Praat scripting
Case study: Extracting measurements to make vowel space plots
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: ScriptingAutomatic annotation
5/22 Plotting and analysis
5/23 Homework discussionHomework 3
Unit 4: Dealing with linguistic structured representations
Case study: Which verbs allow the dative alternation?
5/27 Reading a treebank (pdf)Please fill in SEIs!
5/28Searching a treebank
5/29 Searching a treebank
5/30 Internationalization