Plan: talk about the analysis of a subpart of the quantifier-scope-tagged corpus that Scott AnderBois, Robert Henderson and I have been working on over the last year; we will focus exclusively on sentences with 2 quantifiers.

Main goal: provide motivation for continuing the discussion of linear regression from last quarter …

Corpus-based evaluation of centering theory: Centering: A Parametric Theory and Its Instantiations, Poesio et al (2004) (discussion led by Bern)

Intro to anaphora resolution algorithms (Hobbs 1978, Lappin & Leass 1994, Centering Theory): anaphora resolution.ppt

Tutorial on regression (see the references in the R scripts for sources):

1. Warm-up (skewness, histograms …

Why corpus linguistics? Here’s part of the conclusion of Abney (1996) (“Statistical methods and linguistics”); see also chapter 1 of Manning & Schuetze (1999) (“Foundations of Statistical Natural Language Processing”):

In closing, let me repeat the main line of argument as concisely as I can. Statistical methods—by which I …

List of corpora available at the UCSC Media Center: list-of-UCSC-corpora.xls.

The Corpus Linguistics Group (CLG) has evolved into the Language, Logic & Cognition (LaLoCo) Lab. A description of LaLoCo’s overarching research goal is available here.

The CLG materials (summaries, scripts etc.) have already been posted on the LaLoCo page:

• [Winter 2010] Tutorial on quantitative corpus linguistics and R
• [Spring 2010 …