Linguistics Guest Speaker Orsolya Putz, Ph.D., to visit CSU in March – The Cauldron

Guest lecturer Orsolya Putz, Ph.D., will visit Cleveland State University to offer a presentation on Corpus and Computational Linguistics Wed., March 1 at 2:30 p.m. in Berkman Hall 304, announced by CSU’s Department of World Languages, Literatures, and Cultures.

The contents of Putz’s lecture, titled “A Practice-based Introduction to Corpus and Computational Linguistics,” are aimed toward students interested in computer-aided linguistic methods. She will introduce and discuss fundamental concepts of the field including concordance, collocation, lemmatization, tokenization and speech tagging.

Attending students are encouraged to download the Freeware Corpus Analysis Toolkit application prior to the lecture and bring a laptop or other browsing device with them. This will provide students with the opportunity to gain first-hand experience and try out the methods as they are being taught in the lecture.

The goal of the presentation is to offer students with a foundation on computational linguistics in order to help them carry out their own computer-aided linguistic research.

Putz is an assistant professor at the Department of American Studies in E​​ötvös Loránd University in Budapest, Hungary. She holds a doctorate in cognitive linguistics and focuses her research on cognitive and cultural linguistics, cognitive metaphor theory, automatic metaphor identification, theories of the mind, and more.

For more information on the guest lecture, contact Krisztina Fehér, Ph.D., at [email protected].