2017-2018 / INFO0943-2

Textual corpora : analytical principles (minor)

Duration

30h Th

Number of credits

 Bachelor in ancient languages and literatures : classics5 crédits 
 Bachelor in information and communication5 crédits 
 Bachelor in modern languages and literatures : German, Dutch and English5 crédits 
 Bachelor in history of art and archaeology : general5 crédits 
 Bachelor in history5 crédits 
 Bachelor in modern languages and literatures : general5 crédits 
 Bachelor in history of art and archaeology : musicology5 crédits 
 Bachelor in ancient languages and literatures : Oriental studies5 crédits 
 Bachelor in philosophy5 crédits 
 Bachelor in French and Romance languages and literatures : general5 crédits 

Lecturer

Dominique Longrée, Julien Perrez

Language(s) of instruction

French language

Organisation and examination

Teaching in the second semester

Units courses prerequisite and corequisite

Prerequisite or corequisite units are presented within each program

Learning unit contents

Introduction to the principles of collecting and annotating textual corpora: historical overview of the development of corpus linguistics, definition of key concepts, discussion of different methods of corpus annotation (metadata, lemmatization, part-of-speech tagging,...), using as well semi-automatic as fully autpmatic tools and methods, and presentation of techniques making it possible to transform a corpus into a textual database; data mining and analysis.  

Learning outcomes of the learning unit

The main objective of this course is to introduce the students from the 2nd and 3d year to principles of constitution and preparation of corpora or textual databases, so as to make it possible for them to to integrate these principles and techniques into further disciplinary research.

Prerequisite knowledge and skills

None.

Planned learning activities and teaching methods

Lectures and practical exercises

Mode of delivery (face-to-face ; distance-learning)

2d semester
See http://cipl82.philo.ulg.ac.be/horaires

Recommended or required readings

Assessment methods and criteria

Written and oral examination.

Work placement(s)

Organizational remarks

1h taeching with J. Perrez et 1h teaching with D. Longrée

Contacts

Julien.Perrez@ulg.ac.be
dominique.longree@ulg.ac.be(Gerald.Purnelle@ulg.ac.be)