- Teacher: Margherita Pallottino
Large size language corpora are the foundations without which tools like chat-GPT or Google translator would not exist. But what is a corpus and what can we do with it? In this course we will address these questions and introduce the field of corpus linguistics, the study of language on the basis of collections of spoken or written language production. The objectives of the course are both theoretical and practical: on the one hand we will learn about the historical development of the field and understand the type of research questions that can or cannot be addressed with the use of corpus data; on the other we will learn how to create, annotate, and consult a corpus and about the basic methodologies to the analysis of corpus data.