Subject: Linguistics
Credit units: 3
Offered: Either Term 1 or Term 2
Weekly hours: 3 Lecture hours
College: Graduate and Postdoc Studies
Department: Linguistics Religious Studies

This course introduces graduate students to the fundamentals of research methods employed in experimental linguistics and applied linguistics. The course provides the students with the understanding of research design principles and gives them hands-on experience with quantitative methods for the analysis of linguistic data. This course focuses on the analysis techniques employed in natural language data processing. The range of concepts covered in class includes automated syntactic parsing, text classification, information extraction, tagging, and summarization. The students will also benefit from learning or reinforcing their previous knowledge of some data processing computer software packages, such as SPSS or Excel.

Prerequisite(s): Registration in a Graduate program.

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