29.4497, Summer Schools: ‘Corpus Linguistics with R’ and ‘Statistics for linguistics with R’ bootcamps/Belgium

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Subject: 29.4497, Summer Schools: ‘Corpus Linguistics with R’ and ‘Statistics for linguistics with R’ bootcamps/Belgium

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Date: Wed, 14 Nov 2018 11:09:56
From: Magali Paquot [magali.paquot at uclouvain.be]
Subject: ‘Corpus Linguistics with R’ and ‘Statistics for linguistics with R’ bootcamps/Belgium

 

‘Corpus Linguistics with R’ and ‘Statistics for linguistics with R’ bootcamps

Host Institution: 

Dates: 12-Aug-2019 - 23-Aug-2019
Location: Louvain-la-Neuve, Belgium

Focus: The Linguistics Research Unit of the Institute of Language and Communication (Université catholique de Louvain, Belgium) will be hosting two 30-hour bootcamps by Stefan Gries next summer.
Minimum Education Level: Undergraduate


Description:
The ‘Corpus Linguistics with R’ bootcamp (12-16 Aug 2019) is a hands-on
introduction to using the programming language R for the analysis of textual
data (mostly corpora, but theoretically also literary works, web data, etc.).
It is based on the second edition (2016) of Gries’s textbook Quantitative
corpus linguistics with R and introduces a variety of programming constructs
required for text processing and corpus exploration including:
- building word frequency lists and computing type-token ratios
- computing dispersion and key words statistics
- extracting concordance lines

For that, we will discuss different relevant functions and data structures,
control flow structures such as loops and conditionals, and a sizable number
of regular expressions; in addition and time permitting, we will also cover
very elementary basics of data visualization. The kinds of data dealt with in
this course come from a variety of differently formatted/annotated corpora and
will also include 1-2 examples of literary works and/or XML processing.

   The ‘Statistics for linguistics with R’ bootcamp (19-23 Aug 2019) is a
hands-on introduction to statistical methods for both graduate students and
seasoned researchers and is based on the second edition (2013) of Gries’s
textbook Statistics for linguistics with R. The course is intended for
linguists who already have a basic knowledge in statistics and some experience
using R, and who wish to improve their proficiency in statistical analysis of
linguistic data. Using the open source software and programming language R, we
will:
- briefly recap basic aspects of statistical evaluation as well as several
descriptive statistics
- briefly discuss a selection of monofactorial statistical tests for
frequencies, means, correlations and how they constitute special (limiting)
cases of regression methods
- explore different kinds of multifactorial and multivariate methods, in
particular different kinds of regression approaches (fixed-effects only and
mixed-effect modelling) as well as classification trees and random forests

Details about the previous edition of the ‘Statistics for linguistics with R’
bootcamp in LLN are available at:
https://uclouvain.be/en/research-institutes/ilc/cecl/rling2017.html. For info
about the prerequisites, visit
https://uclouvain.be/en/research-institutes/ilc/cecl/prerequisites.html.


Linguistic Field(s): Text/Corpus Linguistics

Tuition Explanation: Not yet determined


Registration: 01-Mar-2019 to 30-Jun-2019

Contact Person: Magali Paquot
                Email: magali.paquot at uclouvain.be


Registration Instructions:
The website of the two events will be online in early 2019 and online
registration will start on 1 March 2019. It will be possible to register for
one event only but priority will be given to people who register for both. The
number of participants is limited. If you would like to participate, mark the
date in your diary!




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