Università Roma Tre

The course will offer an introduction to Arabic corpus linguistics and will present its problems, metodology and results. Students will be introduced to issues in annotation of linguistic texts in Standard and spoken Arabic, with a special focus on mixed and informal texts. A theoretical section will be accompanied by an empirical application on some of the reference open source tools for the semi-automatic analysis of Arabi texts. Students will also be introduced to principles and applications of standards in the linguistic annotation of texts (TEI, Universal Dependencies)

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