7231002Linguistics (Special Lectures)
| Numbering Code | G-LET29 67231 LJ37 | Year/Term | 2022 ・ Second semester | |
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| Number of Credits | 2 | Course Type | special lecture | |
| Target Year | Target Student | |||
| Language | Japanese | Day/Period | Tue.5 | |
| Instructor name | ASAO YOSHIHIKO (Part-time Lecturer) | |||
| Outline and Purpose of the Course | In addition to learning about the significance and limitations of the corpus, which has recently come to play an important role in linguistic research, students will acquire specific techniques for actually analyzing corpora. Rather than learning how to use a specific corpus or tool, the course emphasizes the acquisition of basic concepts that will not become irrelevant even amid software updates. | |||
| Course Goals | In addition to gaining an understanding of the role of corpus in linguistic research, students will also learn the basics of analyzing corpora without relying on ready-made corpus search tools, etc. | |||
| Schedule and Contents |
Week 1: Introduction Week 2: The Internet as a corpus Week 3: Text data Week 4: Creating and collecting corpora Week 5: Search and formal expressions Week 6: The basics of collocations and statistics Week 7: Exemplary article (1) Week 8: Python text processing (1): Search Week 9: Python text processing (2): Repeat processing Week 10: Exemplary article (2) Week 11: Python text processing (3): Aggregation Week 12: Python text processing (4): File processing Week 13: Research presentation (1) Week 14: Research presentation (2) Week 15: Summary The course schedule is tentative. Contents and dates may change depending on the number of students and their interests. |
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| Evaluation Methods and Policy | Based on active in-class participation (30%), homework (30%), and semester-end paper (40%) | |||
| Course Requirements | None | |||
| Study outside of Class (preparation and review) | For a review of the lecture contents, some simple homework will be assigned twice or thrice during the course. In addition, students may be asked to introduce previous research or present their own research project during class. This will require preparation. Students must plan ahead for their term-end paper, such as deciding the topic early on. | |||
| Textbooks | Textbooks/References | No textbook assigned. | ||
| References, etc. | ISHIKAWA, Shinichiro, “B?shikku k?pasu gengogaku (second edition)” (Hitsuji Shob?, 2021); ASAO, Yoshihiko, and LEE, Jaeho, “Gengogaku no tameno puroguramingu ny?mon” (Kaitakusha, 2013) | |||
