Introduction to Methods in Corpus Linguistics

Welcome to the simple webpage for the course Introduction to Methods in Corpus Linguistics.

This page will be used to disseminate course materials.

Syllabus

Syllabus (updated 2019-08-10)

Assignment Descriptions

(More will be added as the course progresses)

Mini Project 1 (updated 2019-08-02)

Mini Project 2

Mini Project 3

Mini Project 4

Helpful links and tutorials

(this will be updated as the course progresses)

Laurence Anthony's AntConc Page

Corpora and Other Data

(this will be updated as the course progresses)

BNC ("Baby" Version - 4 million word sample)

Brown Corpus (Tokenized, 15 large files)

Brown Corpus (Tokenized, 500 smaller files)

Brown Corpus Details (webpage)

Small COCA Sample

Lemma, Family, and Stop Lists

Sample Learner Corpus

Python Resources

Kris' Python Tutorials

Python Corpus Analysis Scripts (updated 2019-8-12)

Anaconda Version of Python 3

Installation instructions for spaCy (after you have installed Python 3)

Description of spaCy tags

Think Python Book (.pdf) - helpful reference for Python functions

Course Presentations

(this will be updated as the course progresses)

Day 1 - Introduction to Corpus Linguistics and AntConc

Day 2 - Keyness Analysis

Day 3 - Bundles/Clusters/N-grams

Day 4 - Collocation

Day 5 - Python Notes - see Python Tutorials 1-3 first

Day 6a - Python Notes - But see Python Tutorial 4 for detailed instructions/explanation

Day 6b - Python Notes - But see Python Tutorial 4 for detailed instructions/explanation

Day 7 - Python Notes - But see Python Tutorials 5-8 for detailed instructions/explanation