History, features, and typology of language corpora / Niladri Sekhar Dash, S. Arulmozi.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Dash, Niladri Sekhar, 1967- author.

Arulmozi, S., author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Corpora (Linguistics).

Linguistics.

Computational linguistics.

Language and languages--Study and teaching.

Language and languages.

Physical Description:

xxix, 293 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 25 cm

Place of Publication:

Singapore : Springer, [2018]

Summary:

This book discusses key issues of corpus linguistics like the definition of the corpus, primary features of a corpus, and utilization and limitations of corpora. It presents a unique classification scheme of language corpora to show how they can be studied from the perspective of genre, nature, text type, purpose, and application. A reference to parallel translation corpus is mandatory in the discussion of corpus generation, which the authors thoroughly address here, with a focus on Indian language corpora and English. Web-text corpus, a new development in corpus linguistics, is also discussed with elaborate reference to Indian web text corpora. The book also presents a short history of corpus generation and provides scenarios before and after the advent of computer-generated digital corpora.

Contents:

Definition of 'corpus'

Features of a corpus

Genre of text

Nature of data

Type and purpose of text

Nature of text application

Parallel translation corpus

Web text corpus

Pre-digital corpora (part 1)

Pre-digital corpora (part 2)

Digital text corpora (part 1)

Digital text corpora (part 2)

Digital speech corpora

Utilization of language corpora

Limitations of language corpora.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and indexes.

ISBN:

9811074577

9789811074578

OCLC:

1009052480