[Corpora-List] Bootcamp: 'Quantitative Corpus Linguistics with R'

[Stefan Th. Gries]

Bootcamp: 'Quantitative Corpus Linguistics with R'

Date: 04-Aug-2009 - 11-Aug-2009
Location: Santa Barbara, CA, USA
Contact: Stefan Th. Gries
Contact Email: stgries--AT--linguistics.ucsb.edu
Meeting URL: http://www.linguistics.ucsb.edu/faculty/stgries/teaching/bootcamp/index.html

Meeting Description:

This bootcamp/ workshop is a hands-on introduction to quantitative
corpus linguistics for both graduate students and seasoned
researchers. Using the open source software tool and programming
language R, participants will learn:

- how to generate frequency lists;
- how to search for words and patterns;
- how to handle corpora and perform corpus-linguistic searches that
typical corpus software does not support;
- how to carry out basic statistical evaluations of corpus data
(significance tests and statistical graphs).

R-based software tools will be made available that allow to easily
perform many of the above operations and compile topic-specific
web-based corpora. Data to be dealt with include plain text corpora,
corpora with SGML or XML annotation, chat files from CHILDES, Unicode
files; case studies involve examples from morphology, syntax, first
and second language acquisition, among other things. Statistical tests
to be introduced include tests for frequencies, means, and
distributions.

For more information on scheduling, accommodation, pricing, the
instructors, etc., please go to:
http://www.linguistics.ucsb.edu/faculty/stgries/teaching/bootcamp/index.html

STG
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Stefan Th. Gries
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University of California, Santa Barbara
http://www.linguistics.ucsb.edu/faculty/stgries
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