27 August 2021
Data-oriented Methods in Linguistics
online courseTraditional linguistic research was based on laborious manual data collection, or, especially in the second half of the 20th century, on the introspective evaluation of artificially created examples by individual researchers. This has radically changed with the advent of large electronic resources and the adaptation or development of statistical and computational tools for linguistic analysis.
This course will focus on methods for collecting and analyzing larger sets of data for linguistic research. We will discuss corpus and experimental methods to study questions in grammar and language interpretation, and we will use various techniques from the computational toolkit of modern linguistics to visualize processes and results. Students will have the opportunity to work with corpus linguistic and statistical tools to study language use, language change, and translation. The course will comprise lectures, group work and problem sets.
The course comprises 28 contact hours (8*3.5 hours). Upon successful completion, 4 ECTS (European Credit Transfer System) points will be awarded for the module. A single ECTS point is defined as the equivalent of 25 to 30 hours of student workload. This includes class hours, additional preparations for class activities, readings, assignments as well as final assessments.
Attendance: Participants have to attend at least 80 % of the classes.
Course leader
Prof. Dr. Manfred Sailer
PhD Janina Radò
Apl. Prof. Dr. Frank Richter
Target group
he modules are open to all interested students. They are particularly useful for students of disciplines in which language plays an essential role, such as Linguistics, Philology, Literary Studies, Media Studies, Gender Studies, Ethnology, (Foreign) Language Teaching.
Course aim
Get to know statistical and computational tools for linguistic analysis to visualise processes and results
Study methods for collecting and analysing larger sets of data for linguistic research
Discuss corpus and experimental methods to study questions in grammar and language interpretation
Fee info
EUR 500: includes all study materials and transcript of records