Annotated corpus resources are the primary way in which linguistic insight still feeds current computational linguistic research and applications (cf. also the ACL SIGANN https://aclanthology.org/sigs/sigann/). This seminar will provide an overview of the creation and use of linguistically annotated corpora in theoretical and computational linguistics. The theoretical presentations and discussion will be complemented by practical tasks relating to the creation and use of corpus annotation. It will start with basic (but surprisingly non-trivial and consequential) questions such as how to tokenize or sentence segment a corpus as well as conceptual considerations relevant to the creation of annotation schemes, and will then explore different types of corpora and different types of annotations (morphological, constituency, dependency, semantic and formal pragmatic), both covering commonly used standard resources (such as the Penn Treebank) as well as linguistic corpus resources for languages other than English.

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Nature of course and our expectations: This is a research-oriented Hauptseminar, in which we jointly explore perspectives and approaches. You are expected to

Academic conduct and misconduct: Research is driven by discussion and free exchange of ideas, motivations, and perspectives. So you are encouraged to work in groups, discuss, and exchange ideas. At the same time, the foundation of the free exchange of ideas is that everyone is open about where they obtained which information. Concretely, this means you are expected to always make explicit when you’ve worked on something as a team – and keep in mind that being part of a team always means sharing the work.

For text you write, you always have to provide explicit references for any ideas or passages you reuse from somewhere else. Note that this includes text “found” on the web, where you should cite the url of the web site in case no more official publication is available.

We view the university as a community of scholars, where different ideas and opinions can be brought up, considered in terms of their merits, and freely discussed. Note that the right to speak up includes the obligation to voice your opinion in a way that respects fellow students or lecturers.

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