Schedule

Lecture notes

• Chapter 7 Dependency parsing and tagging

Readings

• de Marneffe et al. (2021). Universal dependencies
• Zeman (2025). Corpus-based language comparison: From morphology to dependencies and beyond

Presentation

• Berzak et al. (2016) Universal dependencies for learner English

Lecture notes

• Chapter 6 Neural networks

Readings

• Jurafsky & Martin (2024). Neural Networks

Lecture notes

• Chapter 5 Word vectors

Readings

• Lenci (2018). Distributional models of word meanings
• Jurafsky & Martin (2024). Embeddings

Presentation

• Lu & Hu (2021) Sense-aware lexical sophistication indices and their relationship to second language writing quality
• Hemilton et al. (2016) Diachronic Word Embeddings Reveal Statistical Laws of Semantic Change

Lecture notes

• Chapter 4 Unit of analysis

Readings

• Webb (2021). The lemma dilemma: How should words be operationalized in research and pedagogy?
• Jurafsky & Martin (2024). Words and Tokens

Presentation

• Jarvis & Hashimoto (2021) How operationalizations of word types affect measures of lexical diversity
• Beinborn & Pinter (2023) Analyzing Cognitive Plausibility of Subword Tokenization

Lecture notes

• Chapter 3 Corpus design and selection

Readings

• Gries (2009). What is Corpus Linguistics?
• Egbert et al. (2022), Ch.3. Corpus representativeness: A conceptual and methodological framework

Presentation

• Hanks et al. (2024). Building LANA-CASE

Lecture notes

• Chapter 2 NLP in learner corpus research

Readings

• Granger (2026). Corpus-based Research in Second Language Acquisition.
• Kyle (2021). Natural language processing for learner corpus research.
• Kyle & Sung (2026). Tagging and parsing

Presentation

• Kyle & Eguchi (2024). Evaluating NLP models with written and spoken L2 samples

Lecture notes

• Chapter 1 Intro to NLP for corpus linguistics

Readings

• Dunn (2022). Natural language processing for corpus linguistics.
• Gries (2026). Corpus linguistics and psycholinguistics.
• Meurers (2020). Natural language processing and language learning.