LIN/CSE 875 Spring 2006 Advanced Studies in Computational Linguistics Statistics and Linguistic Applications

How can I use statistics to do linguistics?

• Syllabus
• Books:
  • Statistics in Language Studies. Anthony Woods, Paul Fletcher and Arthur Hughes. Cambridge University Press. 1986.
  • Foundations of Statistics: a simulation-based approach. Shravan Vasishth. 2006.
  • Introductory Statistics with R. Peter Dalgaard. 2002.
  • Baron and Li's Notes on the use of R for psychology experiments and questionnaires
• Computer stuff:
  • R
  • MSU library's corpora
  • Brown corpus NP lengths
  • Brown corpus VP lengths
  • English proficiency scores from WFH page 23
  • German proficiency scores from Christopher Butler's Statistics in Linguistics
  • Quetelet's chest sizes
  • the Tregex tree-searcher
  • parsed Brown corpus trees from Penn Treebank v3 (on Windows, decompress with WinRAR or PKZip available from www.download.com)
  • tree-searching script for Unix, Mac OS X, Linux
  • tree-searching batch file for MS-DOS, Windows (windows installation instructions)
  • Language test scores from WFH page 223
  • candidates.txt evaluated on both research and jobtalk
  • The CHILDES project from whose database is derived Sarah's MLUs.
    Cf. Roger Brown (1973). A first language: The early stages. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press.
• How grades are determined
• january 17th handout
• amended january 24th handout
• january 31st handout
• multistage cluster sampling: Iraq mortality article from the Lancet
• probability handout from february 7th as well as Mark Paskin's Intro to Probability
• Suppes on Probabilistic Grammars (need to be on campus or use proxy server)
• march 14th handout (set-up for Vasishth ch4)
• march 21st handout (cleanup for Vasishth ch4)
• april 4th handout
• april 11th handout
• april 18th handout
• Dennis Preston's GoldVarb handout (Microsoft Word)