Introduction to Text Corpora and Their Applications - AMLV00061

• Title: Introduction to Text Corpora and Their Applications
• Guaranteed by: Institute of the Czech National Corpus (21-UCNK)
• Faculty: Faculty of Arts
• Actual: from 2018
• Semester: winter
• Points: 0
• E-Credits: 5
• Examination process: winter s.:written
• Hours per week, examination: winter s.:1/1, Ex [HT]
• Capacity: unknown / unknown (unknown)
• Min. number of students: unlimited
• 4EU+: no
• Virtual mobility / capacity: no
• State of the course: not taught
• Language: English
• Teaching methods: full-time
• Teaching methods: full-time
• Note: course can be enrolled in outside the study plan; enabled for web enrollment
• Guarantor: Mgr. Lucie Lukešová, Ph.D.
• Class: Exchange - 09.3 Linguistics

Annotation

Last update: Mgr. Lucie Lukešová, Ph.D. (23.09.2016)

Introduction to Text Corpora and Their Applications

Text corpora have recently become an indispensable part of research in humanities/social sciences, primarily in
linguistics. They can serve both as a theoretical basis and as a rich source of data. The primary objective of this
course is to give an overview of their applications in various disciplines, including lexicology, language teaching,
translation studies, but also literary science, discourse studies or forensic linguistics. Students will learn both
theoretically and practically about the characteristics of a text corpus, incl. corpus design and annotation, types of
corpora and their purpose. The following topics will also be covered in the course: representativeness of data,
quantitative methods in linguistics, incl. basic statistical measures, multilingual corpora, corpus tools and possible
limitations in corpus-based research.

The course belongs to the area Exchange - 09.3 Linguistics, and is suitable for Erasmus students.

Descriptors

Last update: Mgr. Lucie Lukešová, Ph.D. (18.09.2017)

The course includes a 90-minute class each week, consisting of a 45-minute lecture (introducing the topic and providing all the necessary information) and a 45-minute practical seminar (including student participation based on reading and common work on selected tasks).

 

Timetable

 

1.         5/10     Introduction to the course, first reading assignment

 

2.         12/10    History and development of language corpora (pre-electronic, 1^st generation, 2^nd generation)

 

3.         19/10    Corpus characteristics and design (incl. annotation, lemmatization, tagging), types of corpora

 

4.         26/10    Basic notions of corpus linguistics (frequency, distribution, representativeness, concordance etc.)

 

5.         2/11      Corpora in grammar and diachronic studies

 

6.         9/11      Corpora in lexical studies and lexicography

 

7.         16/11    Corpora in contrastive linguistics and translation studies

 

8.         23/11    Corpora in stylistics and literary studies

 

9.         30/11    Corpora in discourse studies (MD-CADS)

 

10.       7/12      Corpora in language learning and teaching (L1, L2)

 

11.       14/12     Corpora in forensic linguistics

 

12.       21/12     Corpora in sociolinguistics

 

13.       4/1/18   Final test

 

 

 

 

 

 

Course completion requirements

Last update: Mgr. Lucie Lukešová, Ph.D. (09.09.2016)

Course requirements

 

No previous knowledge of corpus linguistics is required. The students are expected to attend the class and actively participate in the lessons. 

Final grades are based on attendance and active participation, one short class presentation (on a selected topic and assigned reading) and a final written test summarizing the covered areas in the course.