Schedule

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.

DaysTopicsReadingsAssignments
Unit 1: Basic data manipulations
Case study: Do women talk more than men?
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
M 5/14 Python: Decision making (pdf) Exercise 4
T 5/15 Python: Processing multiple filesHomework 1
Unit 2: Reading text and counting words
Case study: Investigating Zipf's law
W 5/16 Python: Parallel lists (pdf) Exercise 5
Th 5/17 Python: Parallel listsExercise 6
Exercise 7
F 5/18 Python: Dictionaries (pdf)Exercise 8
HW1 due!
M 5/21 R: Plotting (pdf), Homework discussionKodi's ggplot tutorialHomework 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: ScriptingAutomatic annotation
F 5/25 Plotting and analysis, Homework discussionHomework 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 5/30Searching a treebank
Th 5/31Searching a treebank HW3 due!
F 6/01 Internationalization Please fill in SEIs!