Computer Tools for Linguistic Research

2021/2022

Academic Year

ENG

Instruction in English

5

ECTS credits

Delivered at:

School of English Language

Course type:

Compulsory course

When:

2 year, 3, 4 module

Instructors

Demidovskij, Alexander

Lyashevskaya, Olga

Ураев Дмитрий Юрьевич

Khomenko, Anna

Course Syllabus

Abstract

The course is aimed at imparting to students knowledge of modern computer tools and resources used in research in the fields of corpus, applied and computational linguistics, as well as teaching students to apply these tools and resources to linguistic problems. The computer tools covered in this course in-clude: concordancers, corpus managers, corpus-building (and bootstrapping) tools, lemmatizers, stemmers, morphological analyzers, part-of-speech taggers, syntactic and semantic taggers, regular expressions, as well as the text-processing capabilities of the Python programming language. The course involves conducted individual and group research and presenting the results to the class. Pre-requisites: basic Python programming skills, general knowledge of linguistics