Target group

• Members of the Doctoral School of Arts, Humanities and Law
• PhD students in the Ghent University Association
  

Level

All PhD students

Lecturers

Dr Véronique Hoste (Ghent University), Dr Gert De Sutter (University College Ghent), Dr Evie Coussé (Ghent University)

Content

This course aims at introducing and/or familiarizing students with computational linguistics toolsand their use (exploitation) in linguistic research.

1. General introduction: corpora, computational tools for corpus annotation and exploitation, 'scripting' (development of small programs for corpus exploitation).
2. Overview of computational tools for automatic annotation (such as phonemic coding, lemmatization, morpho-syntactic coding, parsing, etc.).
3. Introduction to the Perl programming language.
4. Perl as a general purpose tool specifically suited for analyzing corpora.

The first two parts will be interactive seminars. The last two parts will mainly consist of a combination of demonstrations and exercises. (40% theory, 60% hands-on exercises)

Study material

• Hammond, M. 2003. Programming for linguists: Perl for language researchers. Oxford: Blackwell.
• Friedl, J. 1997. Mastering regular expressions. Cambridge: O’Reilley.
  

Language

English

Credits (doctoral training programme)

3

Evaluation criteria (doctoral training programme)

• Weekly home work: solving independently a number of assigned programming tasks.
• End evaluation: writing a methological paper on the design of a corpus and the choosing/developing the appropriate corpus tools in relation to a specific research question (e.g. the own doctoral research of the student).

Time schedule

20 hours

• Friday 27 November 2009, 9.30-12.00 am and 1.00-4.30 pm
• Friday 4 December 2009, 9.30-12.00 am and 1.00-4.30 pm
• Friday 11 December 2009, 9.30-12.00 am and 1.00-4.30 pm
• Friday 18 December 2009, 9.30-12.00 am and 1.00-4.30 pm

Venue

PC-klas B, Faculty of Arts and Philosophy, Blandijnberg 2, Gent

Registration fee

Free of charge for members of the Doctoral Schools.

Registration procedure

Registration closed