FI:I047 Introduction to Corpus Linguis

I047 Introduction to Corpus Linguistics and Computer Lexicography

Faculty of Informatics
Spring 1999

Extent and Intensity

2/0. 2 credit(s). Recommended Type of Completion: zk (examination). Other types of completion: k (colloquium), z (credit).

Teacher(s)

prof. PhDr. Karel Pala, CSc. (lecturer)

Guaranteed by

Contact Person: prof. PhDr. Karel Pala, CSc.

Course Enrolment Limitations

The course is also offered to the students of the fields other than those the course is directly associated with.

fields of study / plans the course is directly associated with

Syllabus

Introduction to Corpus Linguistics and Computational Lexicography
Information technologies and language (text) corpora. Beginning of corpus linguistics, purpose of corpora.
Building corpora, collecting corpus data and their standardization, SGML, TEI, representativeness of corpora, their maintenance.
Corpora tools, query processors: CQP, CUE, CQM, concordance programmes - XKWIC, OCP, LEXA, WORDCRUNCHER. Queries, regular expressions and their use. Statistical programmes, absolute and relative frequencies, M/I and T-score. Sorting programmes, different codings, code conversions.
Annotated corpora,tagging on various levels: structural tagging (SGML), grammatical tagging - POS, lemmata, word forms, programme LEMMA.
Syntactic tagging, treebanks, skeleton analysis, constraint grammars, desambiguation on morphological and syntactic level.
Parallel corpora, alignment programmes.
Czech National Corpus, working with CNC, words, constructions, collocations. Building dictionaries.
Basic concepts of Computational Lexicography.

Language of instruction

Czech

Further comments (probably available only in Czech)

The course is taught annually.
The course is taught: every week.