Dear corpora subscribers:

At NLPgo (https://www.nlpgo.com) we are organizing an online workshop for linguists titled "Learning to use the Terminal", which may be of interest to you.

What is the Terminal?

It is the usual black or white background application available in any operating system which allows the users to run commands. It is also called the command interpreter.

What it is useful for?

It is useful for many different things, among them making different kinds of transformations on files and, therefore, it allows us to make some interesting corpus calculations, which would otherwise be very difficult to make.

Workshop content

1. Preparation: installing the necessary tools and setup the working environment.
2. Basic concepts: file and folder structure, file types, character encodings (types, differences and compatibility problems).
3. Basic commands: show files available in a folder, change current folder, show file contents, copy and move files, column extraction and reordering, result sorting, etc.
4. Advanced commands and transformations: standard input/output/error, command chaining, finding file names, text finding and replacing, applying commands to several files at a time.
5. Regular expressions: advaced text search and replacement techniques
6. Corpus specific tasks: Working with data from spreadsheets, texts (orthographic words) and Part-Of-Speech tagged texts (grammatical elements).

More details about the workshop are available on our web page and, specifically, on the workshop specific one: https://www.nlpgo.com/teaching/terminal

As you can see, it will be held from 18th to 22th of July (in Spanish language, Spain timezone).

If you want to register in the workshop you can do it from the workshop web page I have included before. In addition, if you are interested in receiving information about this kind of workshop we organize and other useful information, you can subscribe to our newsletter here: hhttps://www.palabrasbinarias.com/subscribe.

If you have any question don't hesitate to write us through the contact form available at the workshop web page.

Thank you for you attention.

Best regards,

Mario Barcala

-- Mario Barcala CEO at NLPgo http://www.nlpgo.com GPG key id: F1C15EB7