FF:CJBB105 Introduction in Corp. Linguist - Course Information

CJBB105 Introduction in Corpus Linguistics - Lecture

Extent and Intensity

2/0/0. 4 credit(s). Type of Completion: zk (examination).

Teacher(s)

Mgr. Dana Hlaváčková, Ph.D. (lecturer)

Guaranteed by

Mgr. Dana Hlaváčková, Ph.D.
Department of Czech Language – Faculty of Arts
Contact Person: Jaroslava Vybíralová
Supplier department: Department of Czech Language – Faculty of Arts

Timetable

Tue 12:00–13:40 D31

Course Enrolment Limitations

The course is also offered to the students of the fields other than those the course is directly associated with.
The capacity limit for the course is 40 student(s).
Current registration and enrolment status: enrolled: 1/40, only registered: 0/40, only registered with preference (fields directly associated with the programme): 0/40

fields of study / plans the course is directly associated with

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Course objectives

The aim of the course is to give the first information about corpus-based approach to language and linguistics. Following issues are to be discussed:
1) Corpus linguistics – history.
2) What is a corpus and what is in it?
3) Quantitative data.
4) The use of corpora in language studies.
5) Corpora and computational linguistics.
6) Corpus managers.
7) Part of speech analysis and tagging of a corpus.
8) Czech national corpus.
9) Corpora at MU.

Learning outcomes

Upon completion of the course the student will be able to:
- understand the issues of corpus linguistics,
- understand the basic terminology of the field and use it,
- orient themself in the corpus typology,
- know the possibilities of using corpora.

Syllabus

• 1. Corpus Linguistics – History (ÚČNK).
• 2. Building Corpora.
• 3. Corpora of ČNK.
• 4. Automatical Morphological Analysis (tokenization, tagging, disambiguation).
• 5. Some problems of Automatical Morphological Analysis.
• 6. Spoken Language Corpora.
• 7. Corpus of Private Corespondence.
• 8. Corpus Manager.
• 9. Quantitative Data.
• 10. Diachrony and Corpora.

Literature

• Čermák, F.: Jazykový korpus: Prostředek a zdroj poznání. SaS, 56, 1995, s. 119-140.
• Čermák F., Králík J., Kučera K. (1997): Recepce současné češtiny a reprezentativnost korpusu (Výsledky a některé souvislosti jedné orientační sondy na pozadí budování Českého národního korpusu). SaS, 58, 2, s. 118-124.
• Čermák F, Blatná R. (eds.) (1995): Manuál lexikografie. Jinočany : H&H.
• http://ufal.mff.cuni.cz/pdt2.0/index-cz.html
• Čermák František (1999): Oxfordská lexikografie přechází také plně na korpus. Slovo a slovesnost, 60, s. 136-141.
• http://ucnk.ff.cuni.cz/
• Encyklopedický slovník češtiny. Edited by Petr Karlík - Marek Nekula - Jana Pleskalová. Praha: Nakladatelství Lidové noviny, 2002, 604 s. ISBN 80-7106-484-X. info
• Studie z korpusové lingvistiky. Edited by František Čermák - Jana Klímová - Vladimír Petkevič. Vyd. 1. V Praze: Karolinum, 2000, 531 s. ISBN 807184893X. info
• MCENERY, Tony and Andrew WILSON. Corpus linguistics. Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press, 1996, 209 s. ISBN 0-7486-0482-0. info
• BARNBROOK, Geoff. Language and computers :a practical introduction to the computer analysis of language. Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press, 1996, ix, 209 s. ISBN 0-7486-0785-4. info

Teaching methods

A lecture with corpora and corpora tools presentation. Homereading.

Assessment methods

Colloquium. Written test: terminology, definitions - (knowledge of texts for homereading). The test will contain ten questions.

Language of instruction

Czech

Follow-Up Courses

• CJBB75 Using a language corpus - elementary skills
• CJBB84 Morfology and corpus

Further Comments

Study Materials
The course is taught annually.

Listed among pre-requisites of other courses

• CJBB84 Morfology and corpus
  CJBB105  

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