The study of language using corpora. Usage of corpora within linguistics and cognitive science. Definition and varieties of corpora. Building a corpus: sampling, representativeness, encoding and annotation. Characteristics of major available corpora. Necessary statistics to interpret corpus data. Using corpora: corpora in psycholinguistics, corpora and syntax, semantics, and discourse; statistical natural language processing. Using (or writing tools) for corpus-based language studies. Conducting a research project on available corpora.
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