LING 403

Helps students to develop an ability to obtain, organize, and analyze language-related experimental data. Empirical methods are explored with some attention given to data-driven quantitative methods employed in natural language analysis. The course includes language data collection, statistical analysis, language corpora, the fundamentals of automated syntactic parsing, text classification, information extraction, tagging, and summarization. Students will also benefit from learning data processing computer software packages such as R and Excel.