COGS523 USING CORPORA FOR LANGUAGE RESEARCH
Course Code: |
9020523 |
METU Credit (Theoretical-Laboratory hours/week): |
3(3-0) |
ECTS Credit: |
8.0 |
Department: |
Cognitive Sciences |
Language of Instruction: |
English |
Level of Study: |
Graduate |
Course Coordinator: |
Prof.Dr. DENÝZ ZEYREK BOZÞAHÝN |
Offered Semester: |
Spring Semesters. |
Course Content
The study of language via corpora. Definition and varieties of corpora. Building a corpus: sampling. representativeness. encoding and annotation. Characteristics of major available corpora. Using corpora: corpora in psycholinguistics. corpora and semantics. corpora and discourse. statistical natural language processing. Using tools and programming for corpus-based studies.