Course Schedule

Detailed Daily Schedule and Session Topics

Author

Masaki EGUCHI, Ph.D.

Modified

July 21, 2025

Overview

This course covers foundational concepts in corpus linguistics, corpus analysis methods, and their research applications across the following four areas: vocabulary, multiword units, and grammar.

Day Session No. Session title
Day 1 (Aug. 2nd, Sat) Introduction to Linguistic Data Analysis
Session 1 Getting Started with Corpus Linguistics
Session 2 Foundations of Corpus Linguistics
Session 3 Basic Corpus Search
Day 2 (Aug. 4th, Mon) Analyzing Vocabulary
Session 4 Conceptual overview
Session 5 Frequency lists & Lexical profiling
Session 6 Lexical diversity & Sophistication
Day 3 (Aug. 5th, Tue) Analyzing Multiword Units
Session 7 Conceptual overview
Session 8 Collocations & N-grams
Session 9 Mini-research & Final project overview
Day 4 (Aug. 6th, Wed) Analyzing Grammar
Session 10 Conceptual overview
Session 11 POS-tagging and Dependency Parsing
Session 12 Syntactic Complexity
Day 5 (Aug. 7th, Thu) Advanced Topics & Wrap-up
Session 13 Using large language models for language annotation
Session 14 Final project preparation time
Session 15 Final project presentation

Important Notes

  • All times are Japan Standard Time (JST)
  • Bring your laptop to all sessions
  • Complete readings before each day