SCHEDULE
Week 1
What is Corpus?
08/22 - Introduction to course
08/24 - Corpora survey (Kübler and Zinsmeister 2015, ch.1)
Week 2
08/29 - Annotation (Kübler and Zinsmeister 2015, ch.2.2; Gries and Berez, forthcoming)
08/31 - Tools survey (Anthony, 2013)
Corpus Annotation and Tools
Week 3
Using Corpora
09/05 - Labor Day
09/07 - Practical session: COCA, BNC, Google Books (Kübler and Zinsmeister 2015, ch.11.1-2; Davies 2010)
Week 4
Using Tools
09/12 - Concordances, collocations, and frequency list (Kübler and Zinsmeister 2015, ch.11.4; ch.9)
09/14 - Practical Session - regular expression and AntConc (Kübler and Zinsmeister 2015, ch.10)
Week 5
Corpus Design
09/19 - Building linguistic corpus (Wynne 2005 Ch1)
09/21 - Practical Session: ANNIS (Zeldes et al. 2009)
Week 6
Annotation
09/26 - Morphosyntactic Annotation (Kübler and Zinsmeister 2015, ch.3)
09/28 - Practical Session: Annotation (Kübler and Zinsmeister 2015, ch.7)
Week 7
Annotation
10/03 - Syntactic annotation (Kübler and Zinsmeister 2015, ch.4, Meurers and Müller 2007)
10/05 - Practical Session: Syntactic annotation - TIGERSearch, ANNIS (Kübler and Zinsmeister 2015, ch.12)
Week 8
Annotation
10/10 - Semantics and pragmatics (Kübler and Zinsmeister 2015, ch.5, ch.6 - optional)
10/12 - Practical Session: Corpus methods and statistics for semantics (Glynn 2014)
Week 9
Text-Mining and Visualization
10/17 - Visualization Tools (Voyant, ITMS) (Oelke et al. 2012)
10/19 - Practical Session: Text-mining and Visualization (Witten 2005)
Week 10
Visualization and Data Analysis
10/24 - Topic Modeling (Blei 2012, Scrivner and Davis 2016)
10/26 - Language Variation Suite (Scrivner and Díaz-Campos 2016)
Week 11
Quantitative Methods
10/31 - Practical Session: R for quantitative analysis - (Jenset 2015, Jenset 2008, option - Biber and Jones, 2008)
11/02 - Data Analysis (Gries 2010)
Historical Linguistics
Week 12
11/07 - Diachronic corpus linguistics (Hilpert and Gries 2016, Petrova et al. 2009)
11/09 - Visualization methods (Hilpert 2011, Scrivner and Kübler 2015)
Sociolinguistics
Week 13
11/14 - Corpus and sociolinguistics (Kendall 2011)
11/16 - Spoken Corpora (Wynne 2005, ch.5; Newman 2008)
Week 14
Thanksgiving Recess
Week 15
Option 1: Language Acquisition
11/28 - Learner corpora and Second Language Acquisition (Lozano and Mendikoetxea 2013)
11/30 - Corpus Linguistics and Second Language Learning (Meunier 2011)
Week 15
Option 2: Web as Corpora
11/28 - Web corpora (Sharoff 2006; Baroni and Kilgarriff 2006)
11/30 - Social media corpora (Bamman et al. 2014)
Week 16
Projects Showcase
Finals