Session 1

Welcome to Linguistic Data Analysis I

Author

Masaki EGUCHI, Ph.D.

Modified

August 2, 2025

Welcome

🎯 Learning Objectives

By the end of this session, students will be able to:

  • Overview the content of the current course
  • Explain key success criteria in this course
  • Conduct the very first corpus search
  • Explain different types of corpus linguistic analysis for different focus:
    • frequency analysis,
    • concordance analysis,
    • collocation analysis,
    • Part-Of-Speech Tagging, etc.

🔑 Key Concepts

  • Conceptual Overview of the corpus linguistic methods
    • Frequency
    • Concordance
    • Collocation analysis
    • Part-Of-Speech Tagging
    • Dependency Parsing

📚 Required Readings

  • (Skim) Davies (2015) Available through the shared drive.

📝 Notes

Needs analysis (After giving overview) is conducted at the end of this session.

Materials

Slides for the session

Reflection