COR Lab 2: Describing A Corpus

Present in Week 4.

This lab will give you knowledge about a particular corpus.

Prepare a 5 minute presentation (5-6 slides) introducing a corpus to the class.

Pick a corpus that interests you (that I haven't described already and isn't described in the week 4 slides). The corpus has to have at least two papers about it: one describing its construction, and another describing research using it. You will be expected to read both papers and be able to ask questions about them. The slides should be a very concise summary.

• Slide 1: General Corpus Description (your name as footnote)
• Slide 2~3: Overview of Annotation/Creation
• Slide 3~4: Use of the corpus in some research
• Slide 4/5: References (must have at least the following)
  • one paper about corpus construction
  • one paper about corpus use
  • details of how to access the corpus (URL)
• Slide 5/6: ISLRN Metadata for the corpus, presented as a human readable table.

Example Slides: The Hong Kong Cantonese Corpus

Assessment Criteria:

• description of/presentation about the corpus (2 marks)
• description of/presentation about the corpus creation/annotation (2 marks)
• description of/presentation about the corpus use (2 marks)
• references, formatted correctly (-1 mark if not done)
• asked interesting question(s) (2 marks)
• answered question well (2 marks)

Deliverables:

• email me with your choice of corpus (before class in week3)
• Upload slides as pdf
  It should be called lab2-yoursurname-corpus_name.pdf (one day after the class in which you presented them: to give a chance for revisions)
  e.g. lab2-bond-Happiness_Corpus.pdf
  Unless specifically requested not to, I will put your slides up on their own page so that other people can also see them.

Note on formatting slides (and other things)

Read and follow the instructions carefully.

• Lose 1 mark if:
  • Submit anything but pdf
  • More or less than 5 or 6 pages
  • Name not as footnote on page one
• 0 if submitted late
• Why so strict?
  • For paper/grant submissions
    --- your submission paper will be rejected without review if badly formatted
  • In the workplace
    --- you will get shouted at and made to do it again
  • Why is correct formatting so important?
    • The reviewer/boss has to read/process many, many submissions
    • Anything that distracts them/takes extra time is bad
• Even if you forget everything about Corpora, remember this lesson

COR (Corpus Linguistics) main page.