this study set out to investigate the similarities and differences in frequency of incidence and type of hedging devices used in research articles written by iranian and non-iranian writers. for the purposes of the study, a corpus including 40 agriculture articles in english (20 written by iranian and 20 by non-iranian writers) were selected. collection and classification of the hedging devices...

This paper tackles the issue of verbs in specialised corpora in the view of term extraction. Corpus-based manual descriptions to be used in various applications have highlighted the “deviant” uses of verbs in specialised corpora compared with general uses as well as the need for verb extraction. However, very few attention has been given to verbs both in the terminology theory and automatic ter...

This article presents the original results of Polish language statistical analysis, based on the orthographic and phonemic language corpus. Phonemic language corpus for Polish was developed by using automatic grapheme-to-phoneme conversion of the source orthographic language corpus, obtained from the National Corpus of Polish (NCP). The corpus contains the most frequently used Polish words, wri...