Schedule

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.

DaysTopicsReadingsAssignments
T 5/10 Getting readySyllabus
Unix for Poets
Install softwares
Unit 1: Basic data manipulations
Case study: Do women talk more than men?
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
M 5/16 Python: Decision making (pdf) Exercise 4
T 5/17 Python: Processing multiple filesHomework 1 given
Short answer 1 due!
Unit 2: Reading text and counting words
Case study: Investigating Zipf's law
W 5/18 Python: Parallel lists (pdf) Exercise 5
Th 5/19 Python: Parallel listsExercise 6
Exercise 7
F 5/20 Python: Dictionaries (pdf)Exercise 8
HW1 due!
M 5/23 R: Plotting (pdf), Homework discussionKodi's ggplot tutorialHomework 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 Python1. Automatic annotation
2. Homework 3 given
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 5/30Memorial Day - No class
T 5/31 Reading a treebank (pdf) Short answer 3 due!
W 6/01Searching a treebank
Th 6/02Searching a treebank Please fill in SEIs!
F 6/03 Internationalization HW3 due!