We offer

The Experimental Laboratory offers hardware and software assets and services for linguistic and textual data analysis to support research.

The Laboratory also periodically organizes training sessions, aimed primarily at LILEC and UniBo staff. More information can be found on the page dedicated to Training.

Finally, a Training Internship for bachelor's and master's degree students is active at the Lab.

Below is a specification of the resources available.

Hardware

The lab has 6 fixed workstations and 1 windows laptop.

  • no.3 macOS workstations (Ventura) with Intel Core-i7 processor (6 cores), 32GB RAM, 1TB storage, Radeon Pro 560X 4GB dedicated video card
  • no.2 Win10 workstations with Intel Core-i7 processor (6 cores), 32GB RAM, 512GB storage
  • no.1 Win10 workstations with Intel Core-i7 processor (8 cores), 16GB RAM, 256 SSD storage


In addition, the following are available at the laboratory:

  • n.2 microphones TASCAM DR-44WL
  • no.1 RODE NT-USB microphone
  • n.1 Panasonic HC-VX980 video camera
  • n.1 Eye Tracker Tobii pro x3-120
  • n.2 audio-technical ATH-M50x headphones
  • n.1 Chronos Multimodal Response and Stimulus device

Expertise

Presso il laboratorio è possibile ottenere servizi di supporto alla ricerca nei seguenti ambiti:

  • Raccolta dati
  • Costruzione di risorse
  • Corpus analysis
  • Data analysis
  • Language modeling

Le attività citate fanno uso di un'ampia dotazione software attualmente disponibile presso il Laboratorio. Nello specifico, si fa ricorso ai linguaggi di programmazione Python o R, ai più diffusi strumenti liberamente disponibili per l'analisi di dati linguistici (ELAN, Praat, ecc.) e, tra le licenze attive:

  • E-Prime per il design di esperimenti nell'ambito della ricerca comportamentale e della linguistica cognitiva
  • Atlas.ti, MAXQDA e NVivo per l'analisi qualitativa (QDA) di testi letterari, interviste, resoconti, tabelle, questionari, video e audio
  • Oxygen XML Editor (editor XML multipiattaforma, debugger XSLT / XQuery e profiler con supporto Unicode) 
  • Dragon Professional 15 per il riconoscimento vocale di italiano e inglese

 

Per gli utenti UniBO, inoltre, il Laboratorio mette a disposizione l'accesso a SketchEngine (fino al 2027) e Ethnologue (fino al 2025).

Expertise

Research support services in the following areas can be obtained at the laboratory:

  • Data collection
  • Resource construction
  • Corpus analysis
  • Data analysis
  • Language modeling

The mentioned activities make use of a wide range of software currently available at the Lab. Specifically, we use Python or R programming languages, the most popular freely available tools for language data analysis (ELAN, Praat, etc.), and furthermore, among the active licenses:

  • E-Prime for experiment design in the fields of behavioral research and cognitive linguistics
  • Atlas.ti, MAXQDA and NVivo for qualitative analysis (QDA) of literary texts, interviews, reports, tables, questionnaires, video and audio
  • Oxygen XML Editor (cross-platform XML editor, XSLT / XQuery debugger and profiler with Unicode support)
  • Dragon Professional 15 for speech recognition of Italian and English

For UniBO users, the Lab also provides access to SketchEngine (until 2027) and Ethnologue (until 2025).