19.2467, Confs: Computational Ling, General Ling, Text/Corpus Ling/USA

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Subject: 19.2467, Confs: Computational Ling, General Ling, Text/Corpus Ling/USA

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Date: 09-Aug-2008
From: Stefan Th. Gries < stgries at linguistics.ucsb.edu >
Subject: Bootcamp: 'Quantitative Corpus Linguistics with R'

 

	
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Date: Sun, 10 Aug 2008 12:32:14
From: Stefan Th. Gries [stgries at linguistics.ucsb.edu]
Subject: Bootcamp: 'Quantitative Corpus Linguistics with R'
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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 

Linguistic Field(s): Computational Linguistics; General Linguistics; Text/Corpus
Linguistics 

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







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