General provisions

The course is given within the Bachelor's Programme in Languages and as a freestanding course.

Entry requirements

General entry requirements and English 6

Learning outcomes

The course gives basic knowledge of linguistic processing of large text collections (corpora). Focus is on practical use of tools for corpus analysis.

On completion of the course, the student should earn the grade Pass and at least be able to:

• give an overview of fundamental concepts in corpus linguistics;
• give an overview of different kinds of corpuses;
• give an overview of grammatical markup of corpuses and their content and explain the value of grammatical markup;
• describe important aspects in the construction of corpuses;
• independently and with the help of data based tools make elementary quantitative analyses of corpuses and discuss the methodological starting points and results in a scientific manner;
• summarise a scientific article in the field of corpus linguistics.

Content

Existing linguistic corpus resources and search tools. Various types of quantitative analyses such as word frequency, sentence lentgh, and keyword analysis. Grammatical analysis and mark-up of corpora. Corpus analysis as a methodology for linguistic studies. Various types of corpora as well as their use in linguistic research.

Instruction

The teaching consists of lectures and laboratory sessions under supervision.

Assessment

Evaluation of knowledge is conducted through verbal and written reports. The teacher can as a part of the examination demand compulsory attendance and active participation at lectures. Demands of the course are announced in written form by the course coordinator at the start of the course.

If there are special reasons for doing so, an examiner may make an exception from the method of assessment indicated and allow a student to be assessed by another method. An example of special reasons might be a certificate regarding special pedagogical support from the University's disability coordinator.

Other regulations

The course may not be included in degree as an independent course if equivalent component has been studied in other course