New Perspectives on Foreign Language Learning 3: Language Learning with Parsed Corpora [Prof. Alastair Butler]

English Lounge is happy to announce the third English Lounge Forum: New Perspectives on Foreign Language Learning.

Title: Learning English with a treebank/parsed corpus
Speaker: Alastair Butler (Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences)
Date: June 17
Place: English Lounge and Teams

A corpus is a large database made up of samples from a language.  A parsed
corpus is a corpus with linguistic analysis added to the data.  The kinds
of analysis added can be quite varied, but analysis often takes the
form of syntactic trees.

A parsed corpus with syntactic trees is called a treebank.  Treebanks of
quality and size are extremely costly to create and entry restrictions
are normally imposed.  But when you can participate, there is a lot of
value to be found.  For starters you can explore the sample data, but the
real power comes from being able to search the linguistic analysis that
accompanies the language data, which brings together related instances
of language use.

This talk will tell you about a treebank/parsed corpus for English
that you can access, not least because it is being created at
Hirosaki University.  Also it can be found on the internet, from
https://entrees.github.io/.  Use of this corpus will be connected to
suggestions for improving your English skills.