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Boot camp 'Quantitative Corpus Linguistics with R'
at the University of California, Santa Barbara


Overview information on the boot camp 'Quantitative Corpus Linguistics with R'

Everything in one place ...

Please download this PDF for comprehensive information about the boot camp: the schedule, accommodation, pricing, payment, registration, and information about the organizers/instructors.


What ...


This bootcamp/ workshop is a hands-on introduction to quantitative corpus linguistics for both graduate students and seasoned researchers. Using the open source software tool and programming language R , participants will learn

  • how to generate frequency lists;
  • how to search for words and patterns;
  • how to handle corpora and perform corpus-linguistic searches that typical corpus software does not support;
  • how to carry out basic statistical evaluations of corpus data (significance tests and statistical graphs).
R-based software tools will be made available that allow to easily perform many of the above operations and compile topic-specific web-based corpora. Data to be dealt with include plain text corpora, corpora with SGML or XML annotation, chat files from CHILDES, Unicode files; case studies involve examples from morphology, syntax, first and second language acquisition, among other things. Statistical tests to be introduced include tests for frequencies, means, and distributions.



When ...



04 August 2009 - 11 August 2009 (directly after the ICLC 2009)



Where (teaching and accommodation) ...



University of California, Santa Barbara



Links ...



The organizer: Stefan Th. Gries

University of California, Santa Barbara (UCSB)

Santa Barbara Software and software-related issues