Current Topics in Digital Linguistics

First Meeting: 16.04.2025

Room: 2/W065
(C25.065)

Time:Wednesdays, 15:30-17:00

Content

This course equips you with the basics of programming in order to collect and analyse linguistic data.

The content of the course is structured to cover the following:

1. Basics of Python and the NLTK Library:
• Basics of python syntax, data types, variables
• Working with functions, loops, and file handling in Python.
• In-depth exploration of the Natural Language Toolkit (NLTK) in Python.
• Application of NLTK for linguistic analysis and text processing.
2. Corpus Linguistics Study:
• Compiling a corpus and analysing the data
3. Sentiment Analysis:
• Understanding the principles of sentiment analysis in textual data.
• Application of sentiment analysis techniques using Python NLTK library.