Menù principale
B024242 - CORPUS LINGUISTICS
Main information
Teaching Language
Course Content
Suggested readings
Learning Objectives
Prerequisites
Teaching Methods
Further information
Type of Assessment
Course program
Academic Year 2015-16
Coorte 2015 - Second Cycle Degree in THEORIES OF COMMUNICATION
Course year
First year - First Semester
Belonging Department
Humanities (DILEF)
Course Type
Single education field course
Scientific Area
L-LIN/01 - HISTORICAL AND GENERAL LINGUISTICS
Credits
6
Teaching Hours
36
Teaching Term
21/09/2015 ⇒ 22/12/2015
Attendance required
No
Type of Evaluation
Final Grade
Course Content
show
Course program
show
Lectureship
Mutuality
Course teached as:
B013854 - LINGUISTICA COMPUTAZIONALE
Second Cycle Degree in MODERN PHILOLOGY
Curriculum LINGUISTICA ITALIANA E INFORMATICA UMANISTICA
B013854 - LINGUISTICA COMPUTAZIONALE
Second Cycle Degree in MODERN PHILOLOGY
Curriculum LINGUISTICA ITALIANA E INFORMATICA UMANISTICA
Teaching Language
Italian
Course Content
Text encoding and mark-up languages; corpus linguistics: the building of linguistic resources and their exploration; spoken corpora and linguistic analysis.
Suggested readings (Search our library's catalogue)
E Cresti. A. Panunzi, "Introduzione ai corpora dell'italiano", Bologna, Mulino, 2013.
A. Lenci, S. Montemagni, V. Pirrelli, "Testo e computer. Elementi di linguistica computazionale", Roma, Carocci, 2005.
Further readings:
T. McEnery, A. Hardie, "Corpus Linguistics", Cambridge, CUP, 2012.
T. Raso, H. Mello (eds), "Spoken Corpora and Linguistic Studies", Amsterdam/Philadelphia, Benjamins, 2014.
A. Lenci, S. Montemagni, V. Pirrelli, "Testo e computer. Elementi di linguistica computazionale", Roma, Carocci, 2005.
Further readings:
T. McEnery, A. Hardie, "Corpus Linguistics", Cambridge, CUP, 2012.
T. Raso, H. Mello (eds), "Spoken Corpora and Linguistic Studies", Amsterdam/Philadelphia, Benjamins, 2014.
Learning Objectives
Knowledge of the fundamental issues in corpus and computational linguistics.
Acquisition of the basic skills to use electronic tools for linguistic and text analysis.
Acquisition of the basic skills to use electronic tools for linguistic and text analysis.
Prerequisites
Basic knowledge of general linguistics.
Teaching Methods
Face to face lessons; practical exercises for linguistic analysis and corpora building.
Further information
The slides of the course will be available.
Type of Assessment
Oral examination.
Course program
(1) Text encoding: character encoding; high level encoding; mark-up languages. (2) The corpus as source for linguistic data: sampling and representativeness; corpus building; lexicon distribution and frequency lists; exploring the corpus: concordances, collocations, regular expressions. (3) Spoken corpora: dealing with oral data; spoken language analysis (lexicon, syntax, pragmatic and prosody).