Guia docente 2014_15 Facultade de Filoloxía e Tradución

Contidos

Tema	Subtema
1. Introduction	Description vs. theory (armchair vs. butterflies). Corpus vs. computational linguistics. Brief history of corpus linguistics.
2. What is a corpus?	Defining a corpus. Types of corpora. Main corpus resources for linguistic research.
3. Corpus design and compilation	Sampling matters: e.g. size, representativeness, collecting and computerizing data, storage and copyright.
4. Corpus annotation	Tagging, parsing and other types of annotation.
5. Data retrieval	Software tools (e.g. Wordsmith). Precision and Recall. Concordances and queries. Keywords, word lists, frequency lists, etc.
6. Data analysis	Quantitative and qualitative analyses. Normalised frequencies and frequency distribution. Statistical significance.
7. Applications of corpora for the linguistic analysis of English	Selection of case studies on lexicon, grammar, discourse markers, register variation, historical change, sociolinguistics, etc.
8. Hands-on demonstrations with a selection of corpora	ARCHER, the Helsinki Corpus, etc.