This seminar focuses on computational methods for studying language change and variation. Languages differ based on time, geography, speakers (or author), or even audience. This course is concerned with how to find these differences, how to reason about them, and how to deal with them in computational linguistic methods and applications. In this course, we will read and discuss a selection of articles mainly in the areas of computational study of dialectology (dialectometry) and computational study of literary style, or stylometry, but also in other relevant areas of language change and variation depending on the participants’ interests.

See the course syllabus for more information.

Date	Paper(s) / Subject	Slides / material
Nov 11	Tutorial session with Gabmap and Stylo R .	instructions
Nov 18	Eisenstein, O’Connor, Smith, and Xing (2010) Grieve (2007)	slides slides
Nov 25	Noecker, Ryan, and Juola (2013) Dahllöf (2012)
Dec 2	Garrard, Maloney, Hodges, and Patterson (2005) Le, Lancashire, Hirst, and Jokel (2011)	slides
Dec 9	No class
Dec 16	Clough and Stevenson (2011) Bär, Zesch, and Gurevych (2012)	slides slides
Jan 13	Can and Patton (2004) Pennebaker and Stone (2003)
Jan 20	Ramirez-Esparza, Chung, Kacewicz, and Pennebaker (2008) Windram, Shaw, Robinson, and Howe (2008)
Jan 27	Leinonen (2011) Ilisei, Inkpen, Pastor, and Mitkov (2010)	slides
Feb 3	Zechner, Muhr, Kern, and Granitzer (2009)
Feb 10	Hands-on exercises	instructions