English Computer Corpora: Selected Papers and Research Guide (Topics in English Linguistics [TiEL] Book 3)

The future of English linguistics as envisaged by the editors of Topics in English Linguistics lies in empirical studies, which integrate work in English linguistics into general and theoretical linguistics on the one hand, and comparative linguistics on the other. The TiEL series features volumes that present interesting new data and analyses, and above all fresh approaches that contribute to the overall aim of the series, which is to further outstanding research in English linguistics. For further publications in English linguistics see also our Dialects of English book series. To discuss your book idea or submit a proposal, please contact Natalie Fecher. Introduction Computer corpora in English language research Probabilistic grammatical analysis An analysis of probabilistic grammatical tagging methods Running a grammar factory: The production of syntactically analysed corpora or “treebanks” Probabilistic parsing in the COMMUNAL project Syntax On the exploration of corpus data by means of problem-oriented tagging: Postmodifying clauses in the English noun phrase Quantitative or qualitative corpus analysis? Infinitival complement clauses in the Survey of English Usage corpus Lexis Automatic parsing meets the wall Polysemy and vagueness of meaning descriptions in the Longman dictionary of contemporary English Speech Amplifier collocations in spoken English Prosodic labelling: The problem of tone group boundaries A study of up-arrows in the Lancaster/IBM Spoken English Corpus Regional/social variation Will and shall in Australian English The grammatical subject in educated and dialectal English: Comparing the London-Lund Corpus and the Helsinki Corpus of Modern English Dialects The Kolhapur Corpus of Indian English – intravarietal description and/or intervarietal comparison Specialised corpora The compilation of a Danish-English-French corpus in contract law Swedish TEFL meets reality Software Doing corpus work with PC Beta; or, how to be your own computational linguist Concordance programs for personal computers Corpora and dictionaries in multiline records: A Unix/Awk approach to home-made text retrieval Reference section A survey of English machine-readable corpora A bibliography of publications relating to English computer corpora Index

The future of English linguistics as envisaged by the editors of Topics in English Linguistics lies in empirical studies which integrate work in English linguistics into general and theoretical linguistics on the one hand, and comparative linguistics on the other. The TiEL series features volumes that present interesting new data and analyses, and above all fresh approaches that contribute to the overall aim of the series, which is to further outstanding research in English linguistics.

A corpus is a body of texts put together in a principled way, often for the purposes of linguistic research.