Current trends in linguistic data collection

The main objective is to present experimental and corpus linguistics, toghether with the tools the they use.

At the end of the course, students can competently evaluate electronic language resources, properly interpret collected corpus data, design and perform online data collection.

They learn how to approach solving a linguistic problem with modern tools, an approach offered by contemporary, web-based time.

No special prerequisites for enrolment. The course is related to all other linguistic courses in this program, but it does not assume background stemming from these courses.

The course includes an overview of the field and with some basic skills like mark-up languages, such as HTML and XML. Freely available corpora and other online tools are presented and how they can be used for quantitative analysis of text and the experimental approach to gathering language data. Analysis of data is also presented. Special attention will be given to appropriate interpretation of corpus data also in relation to the existing dictionaries and language handbooks. Term paper is a website with statistical analysis of a Slovenian text or statistical analysis of linguistic data gathered through a questionnaire or an online experiment.

Students learn how to use a modern tool for text analysis and learn about its potential in testing of linguistic hypotheses. They understand the inner structure of simple and machine-generated web pages, they get an overview of Slovenian language corpora and their use and can appropriately interpret collected data. They learn how to use online questionnaires for linguistic purposes. Students learn how to make a statistical description of a given text or how to present the gathered data.

• The Routledge Handbook of Corpus Linguistics. Anne O'Keeffe (ur.), Michael J. McCarthy (ur.). Abingdon, New York: Routledge, 2022. Catalogue
• Current Trends in Corpus Linguistics. José Luis Oncins Martínez (ur.). Berlin: Peter Lang, 2020. Catalogue
• The Oxford Handbook of Computational Linguistics. Ruslan Mitkov (ur.). Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2022. Catalogue
• D. Jurafsky, J. H. Martin, 2009. Speech and language processing, 2. izdaja, Prentice Hall, 1024 str. Catalogue E-version
• C. D. Manning in H. Schütze, 1999. Foundations of Statistical Natural Language Processing, MIT Press. Cambridge, MA, 620 str. Catalogue E-version
• A. Witt in D. Metzing (Ur.), 2010. Linguistic Modeling of Information and Markup Languages, zbirka Text, Speech and Language Technology, Vol. 40, Springer, 266 str. E-version
• ACL wiki E-version
• V. Gorjanc, 2005. Uvod v korpusno jezikoslovje. Izolit, Domžale, 163 str. Catalogue
• R Manual E-version
• Ibex docs E-version

Home assignments (10 %), term paper (70 %) and final exam (20 %).

Red. prof. dr. Franc Marušič je predavatelj jezikoslovja na Fakulteti za humanistiko na Univerzi v Novi Gorici. Njegovo osrednje raziskovalno področje je skladnja, pri čemer je večino svojega raziskovalnega dela opravil na slovenski skladnji.

Izbor člankov:

• MARUŠIČ, Franc, ŽAUCER, Rok. O določnem ta v pogovorni slovenščini (z navezavo na določno obliko pridevnika). Slavistična revija. [Tiskana izd.], jan.-jun. 2007, letn. 55, št. 1/2, str. 223-247. http://www.srl.si/sql_pdf/SRL_2007_1-2_15.pdf. [COBISS.SI-ID 700923]
• MARUŠIČ, Franc. Some thoughts on phase extension to a single interface. Theor. linguist., 2007, vol. 33, no. 1, str. 83-91. [COBISS.SI-ID 637947]
• MARUŠIČ, Franc, ŽAUCER, Rok. On the intensional feel-like construction in Slovenian : a case of a phonologically null verb. Nat. lang. linguist. theory, vol. 24, no. 4, str. 1093-1159. [COBISS.SI-ID 589563]
• LARSON, Richard K., MARUŠIČ, Franc. On indefinite pronoun structures with APs : reply to Kishimoto. Linguist. inq., 2004, vol. 35, no. 2, str. 268-287. [COBISS.SI-ID 472315]
• Boban Arsenijević, Franc Marušič, and Jana Willer Gold. Experimenting with Highest Conjunct Agreement under Left Branch Extraction. V Teodora Radeva-Bork and Peter Kosta (eds.) Current Developments in Slavic Linguistics. Twenty Years After. Berlin: Peter Lang. (2020)
• Franc Marušič and Andrew Nevins. Distributed agreement in participial sandwiched configurations. V Peter W. Smith, Johannes Mursell & Katharina Hartmann (eds.), Agree to Agree: Agreement in the Minimalist Programme, 179-198. Berlin: Language Science Press. (2020). DOI:10.5281/zenodo.3541753
• Franc Marušič, Petra Mišmaš in Rok Žaucer. Zakaj velika okrogla rdeča čestitka in ne rdeča velika okrogla čestitka? Poskus razlage nezaznamovane stave pridevnikov. Zbornik ob 80-letnici Ade Vidovič-Muhe, (2020)

Assist. Prof. Boris Kern is a researcher at the Fran Ramovš Institute of the Slovenian Language of the ZRC SAZU and a lecturer at the School of Humanities at the University of Nova Gorica. He deals with issues of modern lexicology and lexicography, word formation, semantics, and Slovenian as a second and foreign language.

Izbor objav:

• KERN, Boris. Stopenjsko besedotvorje : na primeru glagolov čutnega zaznavanja. Ljubljana: Založba ZRC, ZRC SAZU, 2017. [COBISS.SI-ID 291202048]
• KERN, Boris. Politična korektnost v slovaropisju. V: ZULJAN KUMAR, Danila (ur.), DOBROVOLJC, Helena (ur.). Zbornik prispevkov s simpozija 2013. Nova Gorica: Založba Univerze, 2015. 144–154. [COBISS.SI-ID 41919789]
• KERN, Boris. Feminativi v izsamostalniških besedotvornih nizih. V: JOŽEF-BEG, Jožica (ur.), HOČEVAR, Mia (ur.), KOČNIK, Neža (ur.). Naslavljanje raznolikosti v jeziku in književnosti : [Slovenski slavistični kongres, Maribor, 28.-30. september 2023]. Ljubljana: Zveza društev Slavistično društvo Slovenije, 2023. 197–205. [COBISS.SI-ID 167240707]
• ERJAVEC, Tomaž, PRANJIĆ, Marko, PELICON, Andraž, KERN, Boris, STRAMLJIČ BREZNIK, Irena, POLLAK, Senja. Automating derivational morphology for Slovenian. V: MEDVEĎ, Marek (ur.), et al. eLex 2023 : electronic lexicography in the 21st century (eLex 2023) : proceedings of the eLex 2023 conference : [Brno], 27–29 June 2023. Brno: Lexical Computing CZ, 2023. 449–465. [COBISS.SI-ID 184700675]
• KERN, Boris. Potencjał słowotwórczy wybranych polskich i słoweńskich czasowników ruchu. V: GAWLAK, Monika (ur.). Polsko-słoweński dialog międzykulturowy = Slovensko-poljski medkulturni dialog. 1. mednarodna znanstvena slovenistična konferenca Slovensko-poljski medkulturni dialog, Katowice, 2023. Katowice: Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Śląskiego, 2023. 185–201. [COBISS.SI-ID 184694787]
• KLEMENČIČ, Simona, KERN, Boris. Povezljivost Slovarja slovenskega znakovnega jezika in Slovarja slovenskega knjižnega jezika. Slavistična revija : časopis za jezikoslovje in literarne vede. [Tiskana izd.]. okt.-dec. 2022, letn. 70, št. 4. 655–664. [COBISS.SI-ID 137732867]
• VIŽINTIN, Marijanca Ajša, KERN, Boris. Začetni tečaj slovenščine in medkulturni dialog pri vključevanju otrok priseljencev. Dve domovini, št. 56, 2022. 131–148. [COBISS.SI-ID 115745283]
• KERN, Boris, VIČAR, Branka. Jezik in transspolne identitete. Slavistična revija, apr.–jun. 2019, letn. 67, št. 2, 413–422, [COBISS.SI-ID 44910637]
• ŽELE, Andreja, KERN, Boris. Spremembe v leksiki in skladnji v sodobni slovenščini. Acta Universitatis Wratislaviensis, Acta Universitatis Wratislaviensis. Slavica Wratislaviensia, Wyraz i zdanie w językach słowiańskich 9: opis, konfrontacja, przekład. no. 3792, 2017. 461–469. [COBISS.SI-ID 42638381]
• KERN, Boris. Zagadnienia słowotwórcze w wybranych podręcznikach do nauczania języków słoweńskiego i polskiego jako obcych. V: PAŁUSZYŃSKA, Edyta (ur.). Glottodydaktyka - media - komunikacja. Negocjowanie znaczeń. Łódż: Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego, 2014. 211–220. Acta Universitatis Lodziensis, Kształcenie polonistyczne cudzoziemców, 21. [COBISS.SI-ID 57085282]