Course: Introduction to czech national corpus linguistics

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Course title Introduction to czech national corpus linguistics
Course code KBO/4056
Organizational form of instruction Lesson
Level of course Bachelor
Year of study not specified
Semester Winter
Number of ECTS credits 2
Language of instruction Czech
Status of course Compulsory-optional
Form of instruction Face-to-face
Work placements This is not an internship
Recommended optional programme components None
Course availability The course is available to visiting students
Lecturer(s)
  • Marvanová Mira, PhDr. Ph.D.
Course content
1. Introduction to Corpus Linguistics. Types of available corpora. Principles of electronic assembly language corpus. ČNK presentation and documentation. 2. Presentation of the corpus manager and its settings. Examples of tasks. 3. Basic concepts and terminology corpus manager. Practice assignment. 4. Ways how to search the corpus. Graphical querying. Solving training tasks. 5. The "view" of resources, attributes, structures, context and scope of search units. Solving training tasks. 6. Ways to store and export the information, its reduction and classification. Solving training tasks. 7. Approaches to statistical functions of corpus - frequency distribution, collocations, layout. Solvation of training tasks. 8. Survey variations in synchronic and diachronic perspectives with applications Syd. Other applications of corpus research ČNK - Kwords and morphine. Solving training tasks. 9. Working with "named queries" as "masters". Solving training tasks. 10. Entering essay and demonstration of various procedures for its solution. Solving similar training tasks. 11. Solution of complex tasks corpus of some specific linguistic phenomena from different levels of the research language: spelling, morphology, lexicology, word formation, syntax, etc. 12. The application works with ČNK school in teaching Czech language. Solving complex corpus of tasks of particular linguistic phenomena of spelling, morphology, lexicology and word formation, syntax, etc. 13. Other electronic databases Czech parallel corpus Intercorp piece of work with corpora of some foreign languages. 14. Closing seminar with the evaluation of teaching.

Learning activities and teaching methods
unspecified, unspecified
Learning outcomes
This course introduces students to the primary and largest electronic databases of Czechlanguage - ČNK (for the current language with so far one billion words of text), which has a number of applications, both for each scholars, writers, journalists, translators, etc., as well as a wide range of people from other fields. In this seminar student acquires competence how to operate with corpus of work and how to use the wide range of professionally corpus manager. After learning about the special cabinet computational terminology and mastery of offers from various body functions gradually moving to a different trainer tasks that examine the occurrence, use, collocability (and vicinity syntagmatic), the frequency of different words, their shapes or doublet, grammatical and stylistic phenomena, especially in the current language. When teaching the use synchronous on-line versions of the corpus: 2000/2005/2010 SYN and SYN 2006PUB/2009PUB and their combined unified version of SYN, parallel (multi-lingual) corpus InterCorp and some other applications such as SyD to explore options for morphine research models and word formation Kwords for textological identify key words in the text.
The student becomes an active user of an electronic database of the "Czech National Corpus" and he is able to work with it. Gathering information and analyzing the various linguistic and sociolinguistic phenomena in czech language. The course is a necessary component of modern Czech language perception for each czech and also has applications not only in research work, but also in teaching czech language in schools or at creative, editing and editorial work with the language.
Prerequisites
knowledge of the field on the level of GCSE exam knowledge of disciplines connected to the central domain of study knowledge of appropriate terminology

Assessment methods and criteria
unspecified
attendance activity presentation test
Recommended literature
  • Dokumentace a Manuál ČNK [dostupnénawww.korpus.cz nebo na www.ucnk.ff.cuni.cz].
  • Čermák, F. - Blatná, R. a kol. Jak využívat český národní korpus. Praha: NLN, 2005.
  • Čermák, F. - Blatná, R. (eds.). Korpusová lingvistika: Stav a modelové přístupy. Praha: NLN - ÚČNK, 2006.
  • Kocek, J. - Kopřivová, M. - Kučera, K. (eds). Český národní korpus. Úvod a příručka uživatele. Praha: FF UK - ÚČNK, 2000.


Study plans that include the course
Faculty Study plan (Version) Category of Branch/Specialization Recommended year of study Recommended semester
Faculty: Faculty of Education Study plan (Version): Czech Language and Literature (A14) Category: Philological sciences 3 Recommended year of study:3, Recommended semester: Winter