Corpus linguistics : readings in a widening discipline / edited by Geoffrey Sampson and Diana McCarthy.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Sampson, Geoffrey.

McCarthy, Diana.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Computational linguistics.

Physical Description:

xiv, 524 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm

Place of Publication:

London ; New York : Continuum, 2004.

Summary:

A corpus is a collection of specimens of a language as used in real life, in writing and/or speech. Corpus lingustics is research, carried out in university linguistics departments and computing departments (and nowadays in industrial research labs too), which uses corpora as crucial sources of evidence on the structure and properties of languages. Because corpus linguistics has grown fast from small beginnings, newcomers to teh filed often find it hard to get their bearings. Important papers can be difficult to track down. This volume reprints 42 corpus linguistics articles which first appeared at dates ranging from 1952 to 2002, and which between them illustrate all the main directions in which the sunject is developing. It includes articles that are already recognized as classics, and others which deserve to become so, supplemented with editorial introductions relating the individual contributors to teh field as a while.

Contents:

2 From The Structure of English (1952) / Charles Carpenter Fries 9

3 A standard corpus of edited present-day American English (1965) / W. Nelson Francis 27

4 On the distribution of noun-phrase types in English clause-structure (1971) / F.G.A.M. Aarts 35

5 Predicting text segmentation into tone units (1986) / Bengt Altenberg 49

6 Typicality and meaning potentials (1986) / Patrick Hanks 58

7 Historical drift in three English genres (1987) / Douglas Biber, Edward Finegan 67

8 Corpus creation (1987) / John Sinclair 78

9 Cleft and pseudo-cleft constructions in English spoken and written discourse (1987) / Peter C. Collins 85

10 What is wrong with adding one? (1989) / William Gale, Kenneth Church 95

11 A statistical approach to machine translation (1990) / Peter F. Brown et al. 103

12 A point of verb syntax in south-western British English: an analysis of a dialect continuum (1991) / Ossi Ihalainen 113

13 Using corpus data in the Swedish Academy grammar (1991) / Staffan Hellberg 122

14 On the history of that/zero as object clause links in English (1991) / Matti Rissanen 137

15 Encoding the British National Corpus (1992) / Gavin Burnage, Dominic Dunlop 149

16 Computer corpora

what do they tell us about culture? (1992) / Geoffrey Leech, Roger Fallon 160

17 Representativeness in corpus design (1992) / Douglas Biber 174

18 A corpus-driven approach to grammar: Principles, Methods, and Examples (1993) / Gill Francis 198

19 Structural ambiguity and lexical relations (1993) / Donald Hindle, Mats Rooth 212

20 Irony in the text or insincerity in the writer? The diagnostic potential of semantic prosodies (1993) / William Louw 229

21 Building a large annotated corpus of English: the Penn Treebank (1993) / Mitchell, P. Marcus et al. 242

22 Automatically extracting collocations from corpora for language learning (1994) / Kenji Kita et al. 258

23 Developing and evaluating a probabilistic LR parser of part-of-speech and punctuation labels (1995) / E.J. Briscoe, J.A. Carroll 267

24 Why a Fiji corpus? (1996) / Jan Tent, France Mugler 276

25 Treebank grammars (1996) / Eugene Charniak 285

26 English corpus linguistics and the foreign-language teaching syllabus (1996) / Dieter Mindt 293

27 Data-oriented language processing: an overview (1996) / L.W.M. Bod, R.J.H. Scha 304

28 Conflict talk: A comparison of the verbal disputes between adolescent females in two corpora (1996) / Ingrid Kristine Hasund, Anna-Brita Stenstrom 326

29 Assessing agreement on classification tasks: the kappa statistic (1996) / Jean Carletta 335

30 Linguistic and interactional features of Internet Relay Chat (1996) / Christopher C. Werry 340

31 Distinguishing systems and distinguishing senses: New evaluation methods for word-sense disambiguation (1997) / Philip Resnik, David Yarowsky 353

32 Qualification and certainty in L1 and L2 students' writing (1997) / Kenneth Hyland, John Milton 371

33 Analysing and predicting patterns of DAMSL utterance tags (1998) / Mark G. Core 387

34 Assessing claims about language use with corpus data

swearing and abuse (1998) / Anthony McEnery et al. 396

35 The syntax of disfluency in spontaneous spoken language (1998) / David McKelvie 404

36 The use of large text corpora for evaluating text-to-speech systems (1998) / Louis C.W. Pols et al. 421

37 The Prague Dependency Treebank: how much of the underlying syntactic structure can be tagged automatically? (1999) / Alena Bohmova, Eva Hajicova 427

38 Reflections of a dendrographer (1999) / Geoffrey Sampson 434

39 A generic approach to software support for linguistic annotation using XML (2000) / Jean Carletta et al. 449

40 Europe's ignored languages (2001) / Anthony McEnery 460

41 Semi-automatic tagging of intonation in French spoken corpora (2001) / Estelle Campione, Jean Veronis 462

42 Web as corpus (2001) / Adam Kilgarriff 471

43 Intonational variation in the British Isles (2002) / Esther Grabe, Brechtje Post 474.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

0826460135 :

OCLC:

55910575