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Susanna Cumming

Class Websites

Ling. 50
Language and Power: Winter 2002
Ling. 110/210 Computational Linguistics: Spring 2002
Ling. 113
Semantics: Fall 2003
Ling. 124
Discourse Analysis: Winter 2001
Internet Discourse Graduate Seminar: Fall 2003

Guides

Based on the "lab workshops" I do for the Linguistics Department, these guides explain how to use basic software tools for the kinds of applications most important to linguists.

Word for Linguists

Getting the most out of Word 2000 when writing linguistics papers. A hypertext guide to the features of the Word environment most useful for linguists, including fonts and characters, example formatting and numbering, and customization.
Databases for Linguists
An introduction to database software, with a focus on using a relational database management system to represent, code and query discourse data.
Web for Professors
An introduction to setting up a Web account with LSWeb, producing a simple HTML page, and uploading the page. Links to additional information and resources are also provided.
Graphics for Linguists
Basic graphics concepts, raster and vector graphics, simple drawings in Word, using graphics from other sources in Word documents, and more.

Downloads

These are some downloadable tools I have developed for teaching and research which may be of use to others. All are provided "as is" with no support implied or guaranteed!

Generator workbook
An Excel workbook containing a simple VBA sentence generation program. Construct your own context-free phrase-structure grammar and use it to generate random sentences.
LingWord template
A Microsoft Word 2000 template containing a toolbar and a few useful macros, most notably TableExample, a feature-rich macro that formats interlinearly-glossed examples as tables.
"Susanna" font
A font based on my handwriting (only more legible).