Linguistics 408/508
Programming for linguists

Handouts:

• Syllabus
• Survey
• Overview handout
• "Dealing with the Computer" handout
• Assignment #1
• "Types and classes" handout
• "Functions" handout
• Assignment #2
• "List Comprehensions" handout
• "Recursion" handout
• Assignment #3
• "Scary Functions" handout
• "Parsing" handout. The chapter uses this library. Note that this is not the same as in the text!
• Assignment #4
• "Input-Output" handout
• "Installing" handout
• Assignment #5
• "Types" handout
• "Modules" handout
• Assignment #6
• "Regular expressions" handout
• "Text manipulation" handout (includes changes to the syllabus for the final weeks)
• "Graphical User Interface" handout
• Haskell program for automatically extracting appropriately marked runnable code from the handouts.
• Haskell program for converting unix-type line breaks to Windows-style line breaks. (For Windows users, this program must be run first on the handouts before the program above can be run.)
• Our classmate Jorge Muriel has written a batchfile that updates the path, installs an appropriate style sheet for Haskell for vim, and sets vim as the default editor in ghci for the machines in the lab. To use these, download the batchfile and the style sheet. Rename the batchfile from LING408.txt to LING408.bat, then double-click the batchfile.

Links:

• My own website
• My favorite free text editor is vim. (Works on all platforms: Macs, Linux, Windows, pre-installed on Macs, but not for the faint of heart.)
• A more commonly used free text editor is emacs, which runs on all platforms as well, and is also pre-installed on Macs.
• The website for the textpad text editor program for Windows only. (This is not free software generally; there is a site license for computers owned by the UA though.)
• Haskellwiki: the most compendious site for Haskell info. (Interestingly, subsets of the material are also available in Chinese, Korean, Turkish, etc.)
• The Glasgow Haskell Compiler. This is free, runs on all architectures, and is both an interpreter and a compiler. (This is the one we are using in class.)
• The Hugs interpreter for Haskell.
• A recent and widely cited on-line Haskell book: http://learnyouahaskell.com/.
• A newly published book on Haskell with very wide practical coverage: O'Sullivan, Bryan, Don Stewart, and John Goerzen (2008) Real World Haskell, O'Reilly, http://book.realworldhaskell.org.
• For LaTeX users, Haskell is well set-up for literate programming
• The first half of this page is the best presentation of the tricky topic of monads and IO in Haskell. Warning: this is going to look like gibberish if you go at it before we're ready.
• Other people have thought to do generally linguistic things with Haskell. Here is the link from Haskellwiki. Warning: this page is very mathy.

Some simple useful corpora and dictionaries that we'll play around with:

• Newdic dictionary
• Brown corpus
• A million-word tagged Welsh corpus
• Two very small corpora for Scots Gaelic and Welsh.