Linguistic exploration of the Internet 09-LEI-11

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Module learning aims

The objective of the course is to familiarize the student with the fundamentals of corpus linguistics in the scope of applied linguistics. The main focus is on the issues related to the construction of the empirical base directed towards realization of the given research. The course is aimed to teach the student to collect text data with respect to specific criteria (e.g. criteria of the demand, time, cost).

Major

Computer linguistics

Cycle of studies

1st cycle

Module type

compulsory

Year of studies (where relevant)

Year 1

Learning outcomes

After the course the student:

Knows the most important journals in the field of automatic text processing.
Enlists the main representatives of corpus linguistics.
Understands the position of corpus linguistics within linguistics in general.
Is able to distinguish the basic types of electronic texts and name the software tools used for using particular text formats.
Can enlist the largest Polish press archives and define the types of information available in the archives.
Knows the main Polish language corpora, their size and availability and usability.
Is able to discuss the specificity of selected rights of use of electronic resources.
Can enlist Polish digital libraries, describe their specificity, i.e. can differentiate between the classic and digital libraries.
Can discuss briefly the history and development of digital libraries (in Poland and in other countries).
Can define a morphologic analyser and can use it in practice.
Knows that there exist both commercial and non-commercial resources (e.g. dictionaries); can explain the popularity of the "open" formats.
Differentiates between the levels of availability of electronic texts and is able to rise and lower the availability of her/his own texts.
Can use the software tools for text processing in practice; can create frequency lists, collocations, can tokenize a text;
Can distinguish applications of various Internet search engines based on their functionality; can categorize search engines depending on the functionality.
Can apply automatic procedures to electronic text retrieval and define the types of task for which the optimization is sufficiently profitable.

Assessment criteria

The condition required for the positive assessment is the correct answer to a set of questions related to the course's contents; a special weight is put on the student's creativity as regards the problem of optimization of the access to an electronic repository.

Additional information

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