0.1 This paper is concerned with natural language, computers, and two groups of people interested in natural language: ]inguists, and persons engaged in computer processing of natural language data. There is some intersection of the latter sets, but the intersection is quite small relative to the size of the sets themselves and is thus inadequate to provide linguists with a proper perspective o...

Concept location is a common task in program comprehension techniques, essential in many approaches used for software care and software evolution. An important goal of this process is to discover a mapping between source code and human oriented concepts. Although programs are written in a strict and formal language, natural language terms and sentences like identifiers (variables or functions n...

The twentieth century can be considered the century of gender approaches. From extremist and one-sided movements to moderate and neutral schools of thought about gender, which have surrounded the last century and all of them had originated in achieving gender justice, but each has taken a different approach as a different definition of equity. The curriculum is no exception to this rule. The pu...

In the last decade the working methods in Computational Linguistics have changed drastically. Fifteen years back, most research focused on selected example sentences. Nowadays the access to and exploitation of large text corpora is commonplace. This shift is reflected in a renaissance of work in Corpus Linguistics and documented in a number of pertinent books in recent years, e.g. the introduct...

We present a practical course in corpus linguistics meant to provide students with a humanities background with the necessary knowledge and skills for an empirical study as basis for term papers, BAor MA-thesis. The course is part of a new Bachelor program and is combined with a theoretically oriented course on corpus linguistics. The challenge is to provide students with the necessary understa...

this article aims to study an important principle in discourse analysis, which belongs to paul grice, the contemporary philosopher. he believes that in addition to giving and taking information during a conversation, people also show their cooperation with each other, and so he suggests the ‘cooperative principle’ which contains some principles of subtext. since the cooperative principle is wit...