CORPUS LINGUISTICS: METHOD, THEORY, AND PRACTICE

Book Reviews: Theory and Practice in Corpus Linguistics

Corpus linguistics is a hot topic, and for good reason. Text is more available than ever before. And consequently it is easier to use corpus data more effectively than it was in the 1950s, the last time that empiricism was in fashion. Corpus linguistics is such a hot area that it is already splitting up into a number of different sub-areas. Theory and Practice in Corpus Linguistics focuses on a...

Computational Linguistics for Theory and Practice

Lexicography and Corpus Linguistics

Corpus Linguistics: Quantitative Methods

p. 1, par. 2: Until relatively recently, however, words and syntactic patterns, or constructions, were treated on a par not only theoretically, but also empirically. → It is only since recently, however, that words and syntactic patterns, or constructions, are treated on a par not only theoretically, but also empirically. p. 1, first bullet: how much does give prefer to occur in the ditransitiv...

Machine Translation - Corpus Linguistics

Due to the importance of communication between two or more people, companies, or even nations, the need for good translators has long been obvious around the world, and since humans are faulty, it is not surprising that many attempts to automate the process of translation have been made throughout history. This is called machine translation. Corpus linguistics, a branch of the machine translati...