Hanna Schmueck
PhD student (Linguistics) and Associate Lecturer at Lancaster University. Research interests include corpus and computational linguistics, collocation networks, statistics, and the mental lexicon.
Location Lancaster, UK
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Thanks for the positive feedback, @AdrianaQuante
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Thanks a lot, we're glad you liked it!
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It's a really interesting phenomenon indeed, and researching it can be very complex since it's so hard to control for external factors that inevitably change when we discuss a different topic let alone speak in a different genre.
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Thank you so much @KirstenSomerville For sharing your thoughts with us throughout the course and for your positive feedback. We're wishing you all the best for the PhD, and hope you continue to enjoy using corpus methods.
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Thanks so much for sharing your enthusiasm with us, And spending all this time learning and engaging with materials in this course.
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Hanna Schmueck replied to Chiara G
Thank you so much for being so open and interested in the course and sticking with us all the way in two week 8.
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Thank you so much @VictorFokamTchoupo ! It was a pleasure to read your comments throughout the course and to hear your thoughts on a lot of the materials, and we're very excited for you to continue your corpus linguistic journey.
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Thanks a lot for sharing, @VictorFokamTchoupo !
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Hanna Schmueck replied to June Liu
@JuneLiu Thanks a lot for giving us these pointers, We'll take a look and maybe we can incorporate some of these features for some of the tools aimed at non expert users.
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Hanna Schmueck replied to Natasha van der Meer
@DanielaHasa Hi - These resources are permanent, so as long as you keep hold of the link you will still be able to access them after the course finishes. I hope that helps!
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Hanna Schmueck replied to mi le
Sounds like a great application of Corpus Methodology, @mile !
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Thanks a lot @HeidiGuenther . It sounds like you've got a great research question there, and a clear idea of how you would approach it.
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What a wonderful idea @SarahGibbons !
I think this would have the power to have a very strong positive impact on student satisfaction provided that the students feel like they're under no pressure to appear a certain way in the recordings. When working with students here in England I have previously encountered the issue that some of them are fairly... -
Hanna Schmueck replied to LAURA SOFIA PENSABENE
Thanks a lot for your enthusiastic comment, we hope you'll have a lot of fun exploring corpora as a language learning resource in the future.
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That's a great observation @RowenaViney - A large part of investigating lexical bundles is looking at the different contexts and use cases they appear in.
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You're definitely right, it's very possible for there to be overlaps between the categories and it is a core feature of any good annotation scheme to disentangle these ambiguities and to describe exactly how something is systematically tagged. Thanks a lot for bringing it up and sharing your results @RowenaViney
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Thank you so much for sharing your approach and your results with us @LAURASOFIAPENSABENE . Especially using Excel or similar tools is a really powerful way to deal with manual tagging, and it is very easy to identify possible follow-up studies and visualize frequencies that way.
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Thanks, @SiobhanSmith ! We're glad you liked it.
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Hanna Schmueck replied to Daniela Hasa
Those are great, thanks for sharing your definitions with us @DanielaHasa !
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Excellent, we hope it all worked well.
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Thank you so much for the nice feedback, @VictorFokamTchoupo !
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@VictorFokamTchoupo Like Victor said it should be possible. Let me know if you try it and get stuck.
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Hi everyone, I've contacted our tech support and I'll be in touch once the issue has been resolved.
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Hanna Schmueck replied to Mengdi YAO
Hi @MengdiYAO ! Sorry about that, we're trying to resolve the issue.
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Hi @VictorFokamTchoupo ! Sorry about that, we're trying to resolve the issue.
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Absolutely, utterances like that are very context dependent and the speakers mental state will be a major factor for determining the intensitiy of the chosen swearword.
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Lovely, thanks @AdrianaQuante ! We're glad you enjoyed it.
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Thanks, @VictorFokamTchoupo !
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That's a very interesting question. It might be a bit harder to directly compare since we have no recordings of colloquially spoken EModE, but the written resources would surely also reveal interesting patterns.
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Absolutely, @VictorFokamTchoupo !
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Hanna Schmueck replied to Adriana Quante
That's great, I'm glad you liked it @AdrianaQuante !
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Hanna Schmueck replied to Victor Fokam Tchoupo
Thanks a lot, @VictorFokamTchoupo !
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Excellent! We hope you enjoyed this course and have a lovely time over at the Shakespeare MOOC as well should you decide to take a look at that.
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Hanna Schmueck replied to Daniel Ofosu
Couldn't agree more, @DanielOfosu !
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Hanna Schmueck replied to June Liu
Thanks, @JuneLiu ! What features would you like to see to make it more user-friendly?
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Thanks so much for sharing your results similarly to Cristina - very interesting and I agree with your conclusion.
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Thank you so much for doing this mini-follow-up study, the results are very interesting. I definitely agree that it is useful to teach lexical bundles regardless of whether or not they have a special status in existing textbooks.
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That sounds great! It's a really good idea to experiment with some small datasets before settling for a larger project. I'm glad you enjoyed it.
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Hanna Schmueck replied to mi le
Thanks, @mile !
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Hanna Schmueck replied to mi le
Great, maybe the Trinity Lancaster Corpus discussed in week 7 might be of interest to you.
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If you are not planning on carrying out a dispersion analysis one file should work. What error did you encounter?
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Hanna Schmueck replied to Cassandra S.
That sounds like a wonderful resource (and like a lot of work). Please do get in touch if you would like to see your corpus made accessible to a wider audience at a later stage.
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Thanks, @AkogwuElaigwu ! We're glad you liked it.
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Hanna Schmueck replied to mi le
Absolutely, couldn't agree more @mile
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Hanna Schmueck replied to mi le
That sounds great! What exactly would your research question be? The required corpus size will depend on the desired generalisability of the claims made in your work.
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Hanna Schmueck replied to Karim Hajhashemi
Hi @KarimHajhashemi ! Fantastic to have you (and your expertise) on board with us. Please be aware that free access to this course will end this Sunday, but you can download all the materials in advance should you want to keep learning past that date. We hope you'll enjoy the course.
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This is a fantastic point, thanks a lot for highlighting the importance of emoji and other forms of communication in taboo contexts.
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@AdrianaQuante For these purposes you can explore the BNClab to extract frequencies for spoken language used by men and women between 1994 and 2014.
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That could be a theory, definitely. It's always very hard to interpret these things because they're incredibly dependent on cultural factors and the realities of people's lives, their upbringing, their self worth etc.
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Definitely, it might be a fun idea to explore the BNClab since it allows for displaying gender differences by default. We will also explore this topic in the practical activity.
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Very interesting observation. My personal reactions as a young-ish white German living in the UK long-term are very similar, but many people in the very Catholic area I am from would be quite shocked at my dropping of an f-bomb, and so would some of the lovely methodist friends I have living in the north of England. I'm not entirely sure if the religious...
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Great question! This will be highly context dependent but what I would do is use the USAS tagger (see tagset here: https://ucrel.lancs.ac.uk/usas/semtags_subcategories.txt and more info here: https://ucrel.lancs.ac.uk/usas/). The fine-grained tagset has many very interesting properties, one of which is the + and - symbols indicating something positive or...
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That sounds fun! Are the swear words you thought about back then the same ones that would come to mind now?
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That's a great point, @EdwardRutledge ! Thank you so much for bringing this up!
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Just detailing that the MOOC materials for Step 7.12 require the LLC should provide Andrew with the necessary information.
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@VictorFokamTchoupo Oh no! Could you send Andrew an email about this, his email is a.hardie@lancaster.ac.uk.
The CQPweb error message says 'If you think that you should have permissions for more corpora than are listed above, you should contact the system administrator, explaining which corpora you wish to use, and on what grounds you believe you have... -
@PaolaCañedoSandoval That's very exciting! I've taught German as a Foreign language to French and English native speakers for a few years and I enjoyed this a lot - naturally especially the use of corpus materials.
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Oh no, sorry to hear that @EmiIwasaki ! Could you try it again now? It seems to be working for me. If it still doesn't work, would you mind telling me if you are using a VPN or what country you are trying to acccess the website from.
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@CristinaTello Thank you so much, these are great examples and you described your approach very clearly. Random sort was a great idea.
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What kinds of patterns are you interested in? Since a wildcard can be used to represent any pattern in the text the possibilities are nearly infinite. There will be resources for finding certain types of words though (such as parts of speech, or anglicisms or specific neologisms), you can often access them by reading existing corpus studies on these linguistic...
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The dot serves as a placeholder, it essentially means any character and the asterisk specifies that it any character can be repeated between zero and infinite times. I hope that helps.
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Hanna Schmueck replied to chen Jiewei
Great question @chenJiewei ! P1 is the USAS tag, you can find a full overview here: https://ucrel.lancs.ac.uk/usas/USASSemanticTagset.pdf
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Thanks for sharing this little recipe for success, @NatashavanderMeer !
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Hanna Schmueck replied to Natasha van der Meer
Hi @NatashavanderMeer ! If you have the time I'd recommend downloading the entire MOOC - it will be a bit of clicking but that way you will have permanent access to all the materials. This approach is also recommended because terms and concepts introduced in the earlier weeks will still be relevant later on. Hope that helps!
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Hanna Schmueck replied to Inmaculada Martínez
Thanks, @InmaculadaMartínez ! We're very glad to hear that.
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That's very interesting, thanks for sharing @TamaraSleiman !
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Thanks, @NovikaWrihatni ! We're glad you liked it.
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Hanna Schmueck replied to Polina Solonets
This is a really important consideration, @PolinaSolonets ! Thanks for highlighting it. It is nearly impossible to create a general unbiased corpus, and a lot of different factors can contribute to bias. This spans from the researcher themselves having preferences for specific text(s) or text types to copyright restrictions and data availability in general. It...
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Hanna Schmueck replied to Polina Solonets
Hi @PolinaSolonets ! This seems like a good place to start https://corporatefinanceinstitute.com/resources/data-science/stratified-random-sampling/ - let me know if you have any specific questions.
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Great question, @PolinaSolonets ! Having worked on the Trinity Lancaster Corpus there was definitely a large amount of manual tagging, especially for specific functions of terms. Depending on what exactly is supposed to be tagged automatic solutions could also be considered - see here for a promising pilot study...
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I think your intuition is correct, @PolinaSolonets ! The Trinity Lancaster Corpus is supposed to be a general resource, and error tagging can be performed in a more project-specific manner afterwards.
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Sorry to hear that, @RohaAli ! What system are you using and what error message do you get? I'll try my best to help.
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Thanks for sharing, @MuhammadKamranAbbasIsmail !
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That's a great point, thanks for sharing @VictorFokamTchoupo !
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Hanna Schmueck replied to Victor Fokam Tchoupo
Absolutely, @VictorFokamTchoupo ! One of the great strengths of corpus approaches is their versatility.
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Thanks, @VictorFokamTchoupo ! It's a wonderful resource.
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Thanks so much for sharing this - couldn't agree more.
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I really think working with corpora is a fantastic journey - and you're totally right in wanting to develop a solid and clear focus before getting to your hands dirty. If it turns out to be necessary later on I'd encourage you to give coding a go as well. It might seem daunting at first, but if it is taught appropriately it really isn't rocket science.
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Hi @VictorFokamTchoupo - I saw your answer above. Does that mean the access issues are resolved now?
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Really sorry about that!
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What error message did you get @VictorFokamTchoupo ?
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That's great, I'm glad it was helpful @VictorFokamTchoupo
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That sounds great, what teaching context would you design your materials for?
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I agree, that's definitely a major hurdle to overcome, @VictorFokamTchoupo !
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That's great, thanks @LAURASOFIAPENSABENE !
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Hanna Schmueck replied to Andrea Mojedano Batel
That's so interesting, I've just read up on this a little more. Thanks so much for sharing.
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Hanna Schmueck replied to Rowena Viney
Great, thank you for sharing your thoughts @RowenaViney ! Does a particular marker in terms of words that indicate where someone is from/grew up come to mind?
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Thanks, @AndreaMojedanoBatel ! We're glad to hear it.
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That sounds great! How did your corpus compilation go? Was it a smooth process or were there any difficulties.
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That's great @ClaudiaMariaCalderonReyes ! It's always interesting to see the corpus speak for itself and compare that to observations in the real world.
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That sounds exciting, thanks so much for sharing @OlgaKopaczyk ! Do you code at all? If so it should be pretty straightforward to design a script that tags reduplication. It sounds really interesting!
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@NatashavanderMeer The pdf reader built into Safari works for me, could that be of help?
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Hanna Schmueck replied to Natasha van der Meer
Excellent question, the crux of many methodological considerations in CL. Sadly there is no easy answer, it will be largely context dependent. What frequency we consider 'often' will differ significantly on the basis of what type of data we're examining (for example heavily structured and repetitive texts, i.e. containing list-like structures, would need a...
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Thanks for the positive feedback, @ElenaPleshakova !
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Hanna Schmueck replied to Olga Kopaczyk
That sounds great, thanks for sharing @OlgaKopaczyk ! You might be interested in the optional activity for this week, an interview with Elena Semino one of whose specialisms is corpus stylistics. Enjoy the course!
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Hanna Schmueck replied to Elena Pleshakova
@ElenaPleshakova Excellent - I'm so glad this is looking helpful. Best of luck with your project!
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Hanna Schmueck replied to Victor Fokam Tchoupo
@VictorFokamTchoupo Oh dear, that sounds like a troubling situation. I wish you all the best with all this in the future, hopefully you will get adequate funding to provide a suitable learning environment.
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@ElenaPleshakova No worries, excellent!
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Hanna Schmueck replied to Victor Fokam Tchoupo
That's great to hear, @VictorFokamTchoupo ! I'm very sorry to hear about the equipment issues. Is there anything that could be done to help the situation?
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Hanna Schmueck replied to geng qiang
Thanks, @gengqiang ! I agree!
