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Lecture 18: Hypothesis Testing and Correlation

Title slideWhere the last lecture was about summary statistics for a single set of data, we now address multi-dimensional data with several linked sets of values among which we might look for correlations. This leads into several more sophisticated questions which are key to the effective application of statistics: how do we identify potential effects like correlation; how do we know when we have found evidence for an effect; and what might this tell us about any causal connections?
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Lecture 15: Information Retrieval

Title slideFollowing the rectangular tables of relational databases and the triangular trees of semistructured data, the remaining Inf1-DA lectures will address the representation and analysis of more unstructured data. Today’s lecture provided a brief introduction to the classic information retrieval task of searching a large collection of documents to find those that match a simple query.
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Lecture 14: Example Corpora Applications

Title slideCorpora are widely used for computational research into language, and for engineering natural-language computer systems. In linguistics, they make it possible to do real experimental science: to formulate hypotheses about the structure of languages, or changes in language between different places, times or people; and then test these on data. In building applications that handle text or speech, corpora provide the mass quantities of raw material used for machine learning and other algorithms.
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Lecture 12: Corpora

Title slideIn literature a corpus (plural corpora) is a collection of written texts, in particular the complete works of a single author or a body of writing on a single subject. In computational linguistics and in theoretical linguistics a corpus is a body of written or spoken text used for study of a particular language or language variety. These corpora may be very large (billions of words) and provide the raw material for experimental investigation of real-world language use: the science of empirical linguistics.
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