Course 20: Literary and Linguistic Computing for English

Timetable 2007/08 with links to lecture outlines and worksheets

All workshops are in the STELLA Computer Classroom at 6 University Gardens and lectures are in room 101, 12 University Gardens - unless otherwise stated.

Week Beg.

Workshop Mondays 2pm

Lecture Tuesdays 2pm

Workshop Thursdays 2pm

Introduction to the Course

24/09/07

Holiday

Introduction & History of LLC

Resources Online and IT Skills Review

Text in the Digital World

01/10/07	Presenting Texts on the WWW	Internet, Web & Hypertext Markup Language	HTML 2
8/10/07	Electronic Editions seminar 10 University Gdns. Rm 203	Electronic Editions, terminology Workshop, STELLA lab	Electronic Editions
15/10/07	Electronic Editions 10 University Gdns. Rm 203	Electronic Editions Workshop, STELLA lab	Electronic Editions
22/10/07	Hypertext Theory, handout 10 University Gdns. Rm 203	Copyright	Copyright Seminar Seminar room, first floor, 6 Uni. Gdns.
29/10/07		Reading week

Corpus Studies

05/11/07	Project: Research Questions and Methods 10 University Gdns. Rm 203	Introduction to Corpus Linguistics	The SCOTS Corpus
12/11/07	Using the BNC Online	Introduction to XML and TEI	Online Textual Resources
19/11/07	Designing a corpus	Using a corpus and interpreting results	Document Mark-up
26/11/07	Corpus Mark-up	Online Analysis Tools Workshop, STELLA lab	Interpreting Corpus Data
03/12/07	Corpora and Text Analysis: Summary and Conclusions 10 University Gdns. Rm 203	Using Powerpoint Workshop, STELLA lab	Scanning and OCR Basement lab, HATII, 11 University gdns.
10/12/07	Copyright seminar	Project seminar	Project work
17/12/07		Christmas vacation

All workshops are in the STELLA Computer Classroom at 6 University Gardens and lectures are in room 101, 12 University Gardens - unless otherwise stated (in red).

Week Beg.

Workshop Mondays 2pm

Lecture Tuesdays 2pm

Workshop Thursdays 2pm

Databases in Linguistic and and Literary Studies

07/01/08	Bibliographical Databases + online libraries	Principles of Databases	Using MS Access
14/01/08	Creating a database, DB data	Dictionaries & Thesauri & handout	Project Presentations Seminar room, first floor, 6 Uni. Gdns.

Natural Language Processing

21/01/08	AI seminar 1 Seminar rm, 6 Uni. Gdns.	Artificial Intelligence 1 AI Article	Project work
28/01/08	AI seminar 2 Seminar rm, 6 Uni. Gdns.	Artificial Intelligence 2	Project work
04/02/08	Expert Systems Lab	Expert Systems Experts article	Project work
11/02/08		Reading week
18/02/08	NLP lab Translation article	Natural Language Processing	Project work
25/02/08	Project work	Speech Recognition	Introduction to Speech
03/03/08	Project work	Speech Synthesis	Synthesis Online
10/03/08	Exam preparation	Exam preparation	Exam preparation
17/03/08		Easter Vacation

Deadlines

• Project Form due in (to Mrs Anderson): Thursday 13th December 2007, 3pm
• Essay 1 due in: Wednesday 9th January 2008, 3pm
• Essay 2 (optional) due in: Wednesday 5th March 2008, 3pm
• Project due in: Wednesday 5th March 2008, 3pm

Staff Key

JA = Jean Anderson, WA = Wendy Anderson, DB = Dave Beavan, AW = Alison Wiggins, RS = Rachel Smith, MS = Maggie Scott, EL = Emma Lister