Schedule subject to change.
All assignments are due at the end of the day that is the due date. Week 1Aug 28: Introduction to working with corpora and programming in Python Week 2Sep 2: Using programming to explore corpora -- a lightning tour. We use chapter 1 of the NLTK book.
Week 3Sep 9: What corpora are available? Some examples, and uses
Sep 11: Strings and functions in Python
Week 4Sep 16: Python lists and loops
Sep 18: Python lists and loops continued. Also, Python files
Week 5
Sep 23: Text formats and text encoding Sep 25:Python list comprehensions
Week 6Sep 30:Making corpora
Oct 2:Annotating corpora: formats
Week 7
Oct 7: Annotating corpora: quality control
Oct 9: Sample Python programs
Week 8Oct 14: Guest lecture Oct 16: Guest lecture Week 9Oct 21: Python dictionaries
Oct 23: Regular expressions Week 10Oct 28: Regular expressions continued
Oct 30: Searching annotated corpora
Week 11Nov 4: Searching annotated corpora, continued. Nov 6: Automatic analysis of text with the Natural Language Toolkit
Week 12Nov 11: Sample programs for text analysis.
Nov 13: A glimpse at the R statistics package.
Week 13
Nov 18: A very short introduction to some concepts from statistics.
Nov 20: A very short introduction to some concepts from statistics, continued Week 14Nov 25: A very short introduction to some concepts from statistics, continued. Nov 27: ThanksgivingWeek 15Dec 2: Project presentations
Dec 4: Project presentations
Final report due: Monday December 8, end of the day |
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