LINGUIST List 22.4325: Review: Text/Corpus Linguistics; Cognitive Science: Wulff (2008)

LINGUIST List 21 . 483 Sat Jan 30 2010 Review : General Linguistics : Wulff ( 2008 )

Online statistics labs

Recent publications in the field of corpus linguistics (including several in this and the previous issue of CLLT) strongly indicate that the field is on its way from a view of corpora as mere repositories of authentic data from which examples can be culled ad libitum to a methodology that analyzes linguistic phenomena systematically and exhaustively as they manifest themselves in corpus data. T...

Google for the Linguist on a Budget

In this paper, we present GLB, yet another open source and free system to create and exploit linguistic corpora gathered from the web. A simple, robust web crawl algorithm, a multi-dimensional information retrieval tool, and a crude parallelization mechanism are proposed, especially for researchers working in resource-limited environments.

Associative and Semantic Features Extracted From Web-Harvested Corpora

We address the problem of automatic classification of associative and semantic relations between words, and particularly those that hold between nouns. Lexical relations such as synonymy, hypernymy/hyponymy, constitute the fundamental types of semantic relations. Associative relations are harder to define, since they include a long list of diverse relations, e.g., “Cause-Effect”, “Instrument-Ag...

Do We Need Discipline-Specific Academic Word Lists? Linguistics Academic Word List (LAWL)

This corpus-based study aimed at exploring the most frequently-used academic words in linguistics and compare the wordlist with the distribution of high frequency words in Coxhead’s Academic Word List (AWL) and West’s General Service List (GSL) to examine their coverage within the linguistics corpus. To this end, a corpus of 700 linguistics research articles (LRAC), consisting of approximately ...