Practical corpus linguistics : an introduction to corpus-based language analysis / Martin Weisser.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Weisser, Martin, author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Linguistic analysis (Linguistics)--Databases.

Linguistic analysis (Linguistics).

Linguistic analysis (Linguistics)--Software.

Corpora (Linguistics)--Methodology.

Corpora (Linguistics).

Corpora (Linguistics)--Technological innovations.

Computational linguisitics--Methodology.

Computational linguisitics.

Computer network resources--Evaluation.

Computer network resources.

Citation of electronic information resources.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (311 p.)

Edition:

First edition.

Place of Publication:

Chichester, England : Wiley Blackwell, 2016.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

"Introduces a number of easy-to-use, yet powerful, free analysis resources consisting of standalone programs and web interfaces for use with Windows, Mac OS X, and Linux"-- Provided by publisher.

Contents:

Title Page; Copyright; Dedication; Acknowledgements; Chapter 1: Introduction; 1.1 Linguistic Data Analysis; 1.2 Outline of the Book; 1.3 Conventions Used in this Book; 1.4 A Note for Teachers; 1.5 Online Resources; Chapter 2: What's Out There?; 2.1 What's a Corpus?; 2.2 Corpus Formats; 2.3 Synchronic vs. Diachronic Corpora; 2.4 General vs. Specific Corpora; 2.5 Static Versus Dynamic Corpora; 2.6 Other Sources for Corpora; Solutions to/Comments on the Exercises; Note; Sources and Further Reading; Chapter 3: Understanding Corpus Design; 3.1 Food for Thought - General Issues in Corpus Design

3.2 What's in a Text? - Understanding Document Structure3.3 Understanding Encoding: Character Sets, File Size, etc.; Solutions to/Comments on the Exercises; Sources and Further Reading; Chapter 4: Finding and Preparing Your Data; 4.1 Finding Suitable Materials for Analysis; 4.2 Collecting Written Materials Yourself ('Web as Corpus'); 4.3 Collecting Spoken Data; 4.4 Preparing Written Data for Analysis; Solutions to/Comments on the Exercises; Sources and Further Reading; Chapter 5: Concordancing; 5.1 What's Concordancing?; 5.2 Concordancing with AntConc; Solutions to/Comments on the Exercises

Sources and Further ReadingChapter 6: Regular Expressions; 6.1 Character Classes; 6.2 Negative Character Classes; 6.3 Quantification; 6.4 Anchoring, Grouping and Alternation; 6.5 Further Exercises; Solutions to/Comments on the Exercises; Sources and Further Reading; Chapter 7: Understanding Part-of-Speech Tagging and Its Uses; 7.1 A Brief Introduction to (Morpho-Syntactic) Tagsets; 7.2 Tagging Your Own Data; Solutions to/Comments on the Exercises; Sources and Further Reading; Chapter 8: Using Online Interfaces to Query Mega Corpora; 8.1 Searching the BNC with BNCweb

8.2 Exploring COCA through the BYU Web-InterfaceSolutions to/Comments on the Exercises; Sources and Further Reading; Chapter 9: Basic Frequency Analysis - or What Can (Single) Words Tell Us About Texts?; 9.1 Understanding Basic Units in Texts; 9.2 Word (Frequency) Lists in AntConc; 9.3 Word Lists in BNCweb; 9.4 Keyword Lists in AntConc and BNCweb; 9.5 Comparing and Reporting Frequency Counts; 9.6 Investigating Genre-Specific Distributions in COCA; Solutions to/Comments on the Exercises; Sources and Further Reading; Chapter 10: Exploring Words in Context

10.1 Understanding Extended Units of Text10.2 Text Segmentation; 10.3 N-Grams, Word Clusters and Lexical Bundles; 10.4 Exploring (Relatively) Fixed Sequences in BNCweb; 10.5 Simple, Sequential Collocations and Colligations; 10.6 Exploring Colligations in COCA; 10.7 N-grams and Clusters in AntConc; 10.8 Investigating Collocations Based on Statistical Measures in AntConc, BNCweb and COCA; Solutions to/Comments on the Exercises; Sources and Further Reading; Chapter 11: Understanding Markup and Annotation; 11.1 From SGML to XML - A Brief Timeline; 11.2 XML for Linguistics

11.3 'Simple XML' for Linguistic Annotation

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

9781119180180

111918018X

9781118831908

111883190X

OCLC:

920677154