Bachelor
2021/2022
Computer Tools for Linguistic Research
Type:
Compulsory course (Fundamental and Applied Linguistics)
Area of studies:
Fundamental and Applied Linguistics
Delivered by:
School of Foreign Languages
When:
2 year, 3, 4 module
Mode of studies:
distance learning
Open to:
students of one campus
Language:
English
ECTS credits:
5
Contact hours:
52
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