| Date | Topic | Readings | Due |
|---|---|---|---|
| Aug. 23 | Overview | R&R: 1-13, 24, 25-38, 91-95, 109-110, 252 | |
| Lab: getting started with Unix | |||
| Aug. 30 | Unix basics | R&R: 14-22, 86-90, 107-114, 119, 147-154 (ignore zsh/bash/ksh)
McEnery and Wilson: Ch. 1 | HW1 due |
| Lab: Unix, emacs | |||
| Sept. 6 | Labor Day no class | ||
| Sept. 13 | Using an annotation tool. Guest lecturer: Philip Ogren | McEnery and Wilson: Ch. 2 | HW2 due |
| Sept. 20 | Regular expressions | J&M pp. 21-36, 49-51 | No homework due today |
| Lab: regular expressions in emacs and grep | |||
| Sept. 27 | A tour of some corpora | M&W Ch. 4 | HW3 |
| Lab: Introduction to xkwic and tgrep | |||
| Oct. 4 | Corpus search tools: xkwic and tgrep
| M&W Ch. 5 | HW4 |
| Oct. 11 | Part 1: More xkwic Part 2: tgrep | HW5 due | |
| Lab: more xkwic and tgrep | |||
| Oct. 18 | Perl: the basics | PFD pp. 18-22, 28-30, and Ch. 3 | HW6 |
| Lab | |||
| Oct. 25 | More basics of Perl | PFD Ch. 4, pp. 51-59 and 66-68 only, and RCS page | |
| Lab: iteration, regex special variables, and hashes | |||
| Nov. 1 | Perl: text and printing | PFD Ch. 5 | HW7 |
| Lab | |||
| Nov. 8 | Perl: Conditionals; more on regular expressions; project proposal discussions | PFD Ch. 8; Ch. 12 pp. 201-216 | Project proposal |
| Nov. 15 | Perl: arrays and hashes | PFD Ch. 7, Ch. 12 pp. 217-221 | HW8
Detailed project proposal |
| Lab | |||
| Nov. 22 | Perl: doing math | PFD Ch. 6 | |
| Lab | |||
| Nov. 29 | Perl: subroutines | PFD Ch. 13 | |
| Dec. 6 | Forensic linguistics | No reading assignment | HW9 (see Nov. 22 lecture notes) |
| Lab: the Web as a corpus | |||
| Project reports | |||
| Dec. 10, 4 p.m. | Final projects due |