Schedule

LING 5050: Technical tools for linguists, Maysession 2015

Every week day 12:55-2:45
Oxley Hall 201

Instructors: Micha Elsner and Marie-Catherine de Marneffe

Office hours: Wednesday 3:30-4:30 or by appointment
Oxley Hall, room 222

Schedule
Note that schedule is subject to change.
Homeworks that have to be turned in are due by class time (12:55) on their due date.

DaysTopicsReadingsAssignments
Unit 1: Basic data manipulations
Case study: Do women talk more than men?
5/11 Introduction (slides)
Unix: Navigating directories (pdf)
Exercise 1
5/12 Unix: counting (pdf)
Python: Introduction (pdf)
Exercise 2
5/13 Python: Processing a sentence (pdf)Exercise 3
5/14 Python: Processing a file and decision making (pdf) Exercise 4
5/15 Python: Processing multiple filesHomework 1
Unit 2: Reading text and counting words
Case study: Investigating Zipf's law
5/18 Python: Parallel lists (pdf) Exercise 5
5/19 Python: Parallel listsExercise 6
5/20 Python: Dictionaries (pdf)Exercise 7
Exercise 8
5/21 Python: Plotting (pdf)
5/22 Homework discussionHomework 2
Unit 3: Dealing with linguistic structured representations
Case study: Which verbs allow the dative alternation?
5/25Memorial Day: no class
5/26 Reading a treebank (pdf) Exercise 9
5/27Searching a treebank
5/28 Searching a treebank
5/29 Internationalization Homework 3
Unit 4: R and Praat scripting
Case study: Extracting measurements to make vowel space plots
6/1 Data manipulation in R (pdf) "Recording" part of the Praat notes
Please fill in SEIs!
6/2 Plotting and analysisSec. 11 of Styler's Praat tutorial Finish your annotations
6/3 Praat: ScriptingAutomatic annotation
6/4 Praat: Annotation (pdf)
6/5 Homework discussionHomework 4