Overview
In this course, students will understand characteristics of language through big data. Students will learn how to collect and analyze big data, and find linguistic features from the data. A number of approaches to the linguistic analysis of written and spoken texts will be discussed. The class will consist of lecture videos which are approximately 1 hour and a quiz for each week. There will be a final project which requires students to conduct research on text data and language.
Syllabus
- Introduction to Big Data and Language
- Spoken and Written Data
- Corpus and Register
- Parts of Speech