Corpus Lab 4

Analyzing grammatical features

Author

Masaki EGUCHI, Ph.D.

Modified

August 6, 2025

Assignment Overview

This assignment aims to help you practice the following skills:

extracting fine-grained grammatical features from either a Japanese or an English corpus.
writing a short report describing the results and interpretation of the analysis results.

Assignment Details

We have three tasks that builds on top of each other.

Task 1: Research questions, Hypotheses and Methods

In this task you will describe research questions, hypothesis, and methods.

Research questions

Research questions should include:
- type of features you are looking at (e.g., adverbial clauses)
- situational variables that defines your sub-corpora (e.g., grade, genre, proficiency)

Hypothesis

Your research hypothesis should:
- describe your predictions in terms of:
  - quantitative trends of the feature in relation to the factor you are interested in.

Definitions and operationalization of grammatical features to extract

You must describe the specific grammatical features that you plan to extract.
For example, for clausal features you need to specify if you are interested in :
- subordinate clauses or embedded clauses
- particular type of clauses
Description of rules to identify desirable linguistic feature.
- For example, you will need to specify amod for dependency label to extract adjective + noun phrase.

Task 2: Fine-grained Descriptive grammatical features

Once you articulated the information above, you will now conduct a search over the corpus.
You should use either simple text analyzer or your own Colab Notebook.
- I will specify which option should be used by the time we start working on this assignment (that is, this depends on your progress as a group.)

Task 3: Results and interpretation

Provide the results of your corpus analysis in a way you think is most effective to address your research questions. Make effective use of tables, plots, or other data presentation technique as you think.
Provide descriptive paragraphs to walk the reader through the results and how to interprete that results.

Submission

A word file (.docx file) that addresses requirements in a written format (one or two pages depending on your analysis results.).
- Screenshots of your search settings on the simple text analyzer tool.
IF you use colab, Google Colab notebook (.ipynb file) with extraction code and results.

Success Criteria

Your submission …

outlines research questions and hypotheses
selected syntactic feature and why you think that distinguishes the proficiency score
provide description of your approach (algorithms and rules) to identify the desired linguistic structure.
provides scatter plot examining the relationships and their interpretations in relation to the research questions

--- title: "Corpus Lab 4" subtitle: "Analyzing grammatical features" --- # Assignment Overview This assignment aims to help you practice the following skills: - extracting fine-grained grammatical features from either a Japanese or an English corpus. - writing a short report describing the results and interpretation of the analysis results. # Assignment Details We have three tasks that builds on top of each other. ## Task 1: Research questions, Hypotheses and Methods In this task you will describe research questions, hypothesis, and methods. ### Research questions - Research questions should include: - type of features you are looking at (e.g., adverbial clauses) - situational variables that defines your sub-corpora (e.g., grade, genre, proficiency) ### Hypothesis - Your research hypothesis should: - describe your predictions in terms of: - quantitative trends of the feature in relation to the factor you are interested in. ### Definitions and operationalization of grammatical features to extract - You must describe the specific grammatical features that you plan to extract. - For example, for clausal features you need to specify if you are interested in : - subordinate clauses or embedded clauses - particular type of clauses - Description of rules to identify desirable linguistic feature. - For example, you will need to specify `amod` for dependency label to extract `adjective + noun` phrase. ## Task 2: Fine-grained Descriptive grammatical features - Once you articulated the information above, you will now conduct a search over the corpus. - You should use either [simple text analyzer](https://huggingface.co/spaces/egumasa/simple-text-analyzer) or your own Colab Notebook. - I will specify which option should be used **by the time we start working on this assignment** (that is, this depends on your progress as a group.) ## Task 3: Results and interpretation - Provide the results of your corpus analysis in a way you think is most effective to address your research questions. Make effective use of tables, plots, or other data presentation technique as you think. - Provide descriptive paragraphs to walk the reader through the results and how to interprete that results. ::: {.callout-note} ## Submission - A word file (`.docx` file) that addresses requirements in a written format (one or two pages depending on your analysis results.). - Screenshots of your search settings on the [simple text analyzer](https://huggingface.co/spaces/egumasa/simple-text-analyzer) tool. - **IF you use colab**, Google Colab notebook (`.ipynb` file) with extraction code and results. ::: ::: {.callout-important} # Success Criteria Your submission ... - [ ] outlines research questions and hypotheses - [ ] selected syntactic feature and why you think that distinguishes the proficiency score - [ ] provide description of your approach (algorithms and rules) to identify the desired linguistic structure. - [ ] provides scatter plot examining the relationships and their interpretations in relation to the research questions :::