Computational and corpus linguistics Books
Bloomsbury Publishing Plc Using Corpora to Analyze Gender
Book SynopsisCorpus linguistics uses specialist software to identify linguistic patterns in large computerised collections of text - patterns which then must be interpreted and explained by human researchers. This book critically explores how corpus linguistics techniques can help analysis of language and gender by conducting a number of case studies on topics which include: directives in spoken conversations, changes in sexist and non-sexist language use over time, personal adverts, press representation of gay men, and the ways that boys and girls are constructed through language. The book thus covers both gendered usage (e.g. how do males and females use language differently, or not, from each other), and gendered representations (e.g. in what ways are males and females written or spoken about). Additionally, the book shows ways that readers can either explore their own hypotheses, or approach the corpus from a naïve position, letting the data drive their analysis from the outset. The book coversTrade ReviewThe author does a splendid job of providing food for thought for both corpus linguistics and gender researchers alike. The book as a whole is well written and very accessible ... Each chapter provides stimulating research on gender and language (for the corpus linguist) and a useful description of corpus linguistic approaches to language (for the researcher in gender and language). * International Journal of Corpus Linguistics *[In Using Corpora to Analyze Gender] Baker examines very thoroughly the issue of male and female differences in language, perhaps one of the most convincing interrogations of this issue that I have read ... This impressive book gives a thorough introduction to the use of corpora in gender and language research ... and offers insights about data interpretation that are essential for all gender and language research. * Gender and Language *Written in what is now Baker's familiar, accessible style ... [This book] will satisfy corpus linguistics wanting to explore and write about questions relating to language and gender. * Discourse Studies *Strongly recommended ... A range of techniques and measures are discussed in the book ... all in an accessible style [and] with the help of case studies ... [Q]uite manageable and pleasant to read. * Linguist List *Paul Baker’s excellent introductory book effectively shows how corpus linguistics can be used to study language and gender. Employing contemporary real-life research case studies Baker shows, on the one hand, how people interested in Gender and Language can make use of corpora in their work, and, on the other hand, how corpus linguists who are not already familiar with Gender and Language studies might examine gender in their corpus work. -- John Flowerdew, Professor, Department of English, City University of Hong KongIf you want to know what corpus linguistics can offer to sociolinguists interested in the relationship between language and gender, this book is the answer. I found it hard to put down. Written in a wonderfully accessible style, it provides detailed examples of the challenging questions, messy data, and satisfying, though often approximate, answers that corpus linguistics can provide. It confronts researchers with the real nitty-gritty of the challenges and rewards of each step of a corpus linguistics project. Researchers and students will both find it invaluable. -- Janet Holmes, Professor of Linguistics, Victoria University of Wellington, New ZealandTable of Contents1. Introduction 2. Exploring gendered directives in a spoken corpus. 3. Corpus-driven research: going beyond "do women say "lovely" more than men?" 4. Examining changes in (non-) sexist language over time: where are all the spokeswomen? Frequency-based analysis 5. Identifying discourses in corpora: why there was nothing natural about the Daily Mail's representation of gay men 6. Gender representation via word sketches: boys grin, girls giggle 7. Combining approaches - the case of personal adverts 8. Conclusion Bibliography Index
£37.99
Edinburgh University Press The Corpus Phonology of English
Book SynopsisPlacing contemporary spoken English at the centre of phonological research, this book tackles the issue of language variation and change through a range of methodological and theoretical approaches.
£99.00
APress Generative AI
Book SynopsisThis book will show how generative technology works and the drivers. It will also look at the applications showing what various startupsand large companies are doing in the space.There will also be a look at the challenges and risk factors. During the past decade, companies have spent billions on AI. But the focus has been on applying the technology to predictions which is known as analytical AI. It can mean that you receive TikTok videos that you cannot resist. Or analytical AI can fend against spam or fraud or forecast when a package will be delivered. While such things are beneficial, there is much more to AI. The next megatrend will be leveraging the technology to be creative. For example, you could take a book and an AI model will turn it into a movie at very little cost. This is all part of generative AI. It's still in the nascent stages but it is progressing quickly. Generative AI can already create engaging blog posts, social media messages, beautiful artwork and compellinTable of ContentsChapter 1: Introduction to Generative AI.- Chapter 2: Data.- Chapter 3: AI Fundamentals.- Chapter 4: Core Generative AI Technology.- Chapter 5: Large Language Models.- Chapter 6: Auto Code Generation.- Chapter 7: The Transformation of Business.- Chapter 8: The Impact on Major Businesses.- Chapter 9: The Future.
£44.99
Gallaudet University Press,U.S. Interpreter Education in the Digital Age:
Book SynopsisThis collection brings together innovative research and approaches for blended learning using digital technologiy in interpreter education for signed and spoken languages. Volume editors Suzanne Ehrlich and Jemina Napier call upon the expertise of twenty-one experts to report on the current technology used to provide digital enhancements to interpreter education in six countries. This study focuses on the technology itself rather than how technology enhances curriculum, delivery, or resources.
£45.00
Centre for the Study of Language & Information Linguistic Databases
Book SynopsisLinguistic Databases explores the increasing use of databases in linguistics. The enormous potential in linguistic data - billions of utterances and messages daily - has been difficult to exploit. Many linguists have had to concentrate on introspective data with its inevitable blinders toward frequency, variation, and naturalness. Applications of linguistics have been handicapped. This volume explores the potential advantages of database applications to linguistics. Included in this volume are reports on database activities in phonetics, phonology, lexicography and syntax, comparative grammar, second-language acquisition, linguistic fieldwork, and language pathology. The book presents the specialized problems of multi-media (especially audio) and multi-lingual texts, including those in exotic writing systems. Implemented solutions are also discussed. The opportunities to use existing, minimally structured text repositories are presented.Table of Contents1. Introduction John Nerbonne; 2. Test suites for natural language processing Stephen Oepen, Klaus Netter and Judith Klein; 3. From annotated corpora to databases: the SgmlQL Jacques Le Maitre, Elisabeth Murisasco, and Monique Rolbert; 4. Markup of a test suite with SGML Martin Volk; 5. An open systems approach for an acoustic-phonetic continuous speech database: the S. tools database-management systems (STDBMS) Werner A. Deutsch, Ralf Vollman, Anton Noll, and Sylvia Moosmüller; 6. The reading database of syllable structure Erik Fudge and Linda Shockey; 7. A database application for the generation of phonetic atlas maps Edgar Haimerl; 8. Swiss-French polyphone and polyvar: telephone speech databases to model inter- and intra-speaker variability Gerard Chollet, Jean-Luc Cochard, Andrei Constantinescu, Cedric Jaboulet, and Philippe Langlais; 9. Investigating argument structure: the Russian nominalization database Andrew Bredenkamp, Louisa Sadler, and Andrew Spencer; 10. The use of a psycholinguistic database in the simplification of text for aphasic readers Siobhan Devlin and John Tait; 11. The computer learner Corpus: a testbed for electronic EFL Tools Sylviane Granger; 12. Linking wordnet to a Corpus query system Oliver Christ; 13. Multilingual data processing in the Cellar environment Gary F. Simons and John V. Thomson.
£29.98
Centre for the Study of Language & Information Computing Natural Language: Context, Structure,
Book SynopsisThis book pursues the recent upsurge of research in the interface of logic, language and computation, with applications to artificial intelligence and machine learning. It contains a variety of contributions to the logical and computational analysis of natural language. A wide range of logical and computational tools are employed and applied to such varied areas as context-dependency, linguistic discourse, and formal grammar. The papers in this volume cover: context-dependency from philosophical, computational, and logical points of view; a logical framework for combining dynamic discourse semantics and preferential reasoning in AI; negative polarity items in connection with affective predicates; Head-Driven Phrase Structure Grammar from a perspective of type theory and category theory; and an axiomatic theory of machine learning of natural language with applications to physics word problems.Table of ContentsPreface; 1. Indexicals, contexts, and unarticulated constituents; 2. Formalizing context (expanded notes); 3. Changing contexts and shifting assertions; 4. Discourse preferences in dynamic logic; 5. Polarity, predicates and monotonicity; 6. Machine learning of physics word problems.
£27.03
Centre for the Study of Language & Information A Descriptive Approach to LanguageTheoretic
Book SynopsisThis book presents a new approach to the field of natural language syntax.
£22.00
Centre for the Study of Language & Information Mixed Categories in the Hierarchical Lexicon
Book SynopsisMixed category constructions like the English verbal gerund involve words that seem to be central members of more than one part of speech and so pose a problem for the standard view of syntactic categories. This book presents a novel analysis of this and similar mixed category constructions in languages including Quechua, Tibetan, Arabic, Fijian, Dagaare, and Jacaltec. Under this analysis, verbal gerunds share the selectional properties of verbs and the distributional properties of nouns. Since different dimensions of grammatical information can vary independently, the behavior of mixed categories creates no paradox. But, while these dimensions are in principle independent, in fact certain types of mixed categories are quite common in the world's languages, while others are rare or nonexistent. The cross-linguistic variation can best be accounted for by means of a lexical categorial prototype. Specifically, nouns prototypically denote objects and verbs prototypically denote actions.Table of Contents1. Introduction; 2. English verbal gerunds; 3. Coherent nominalizations; 4. Conclusions and consequences; Bibliography; Index.
£25.43
Centre for the Study of Language & Information Mixed Categories in the Hierarchical Lexicon
Book SynopsisMixed category constructions like the English verbal gerund involve words that seem to be central members of more than one part of speech and so pose a problem for the standard view of syntactic categories. This book presents a novel analysis of this and similar mixed category constructions in languages including Quechua, Tibetan, Arabic, Fijian, Dagaare, and Jacaltec. Under this analysis, verbal gerunds share the selectional properties of verbs and the distributional properties of nouns. Since different dimensions of grammatical information can vary independently, the behavior of mixed categories creates no paradox. But, while these dimensions are in principle independent, in fact certain types of mixed categories are quite common in the world's languages, while others are rare or nonexistent. The cross-linguistic variation can best be accounted for by means of a lexical categorial prototype. Specifically, nouns prototypically denote objects and verbs prototypically denote actions.Table of Contents1. Introduction; 2. English verbal gerunds; 3. Coherent nominalizations; 4. Conclusions and consequences; Bibliography; Index.
£55.53
Centre for the Study of Language & Information The Ontology of Language: Properties, Individuals
Book SynopsisThe book offers contributions to a number of topics in semantics, while at the same time providing an engaging discussion of key foundational issues and of what Property Theory can contribute to them. The book starts from a version of Property Theory which stems out of a combination of the lambda calculus with Aczel's Frege structures (a combination originally developed by Raymond Turner). Fox improves on it and substantially extends it with original applications to plurals and mass nouns, to 'intensional individuals' and to the dynamics of discourse. Some useful appendixes on further extensions and alternatives are added. While being formally highly sophisticated, it manages to give a sense of the elegance and flexibility of the underlying theory. This volume should be of interest to researchers engaged in the cognitive science arena.Table of Contents1. Introduction; 2. Property theory; 3. Plurals and mass terms; 4. Roles and guises; 5. Discourse representation; 6. Conclusions; A. Dynamic property theory; B. Dependent types and discourse; C. Semantics of NL in PTD; D. Negation and disjunction in discourse; Bibliography.
£52.00
Centre for the Study of Language & Information The Ontology of Language: Properties, Individuals
Book SynopsisThe book offers contributions to a number of topics in semantics, while at the same time providing an engaging discussion of key foundational issues and of what Property Theory can contribute to them. The book starts from a version of Property Theory which stems out of a combination of the lambda calculus with Aczel's Frege structures (a combination originally developed by Raymond Turner). Fox improves on it and substantially extends it with original applications to plurals and mass nouns, to 'intensional individuals' and to the dynamics of discourse. Some useful appendixes on further extensions and alternatives are added. While being formally highly sophisticated, it manages to give a sense of the elegance and flexibility of the underlying theory. This volume should be of interest to researchers engaged in the cognitive science arena.Table of Contents1. Introduction; 2. Property theory; 3. Plurals and mass terms; 4. Roles and guises; 5. Discourse representation; 6. Conclusions; A. Dynamic property theory; B. Dependent types and discourse; C. Semantics of NL in PTD; D. Negation and disjunction in discourse; Bibliography.
£27.24
Centre for the Study of Language & Information Formalizing the Dynamics of Information
Book SynopsisThe papers collected in this volume exemplify some of the trends in current approaches to logic, language and computation. Written by authors with varied academic backgrounds, the contributions are intended for an interdisciplinary audience. The first part of this volume addresses issues relevant for multi-agent systems: reasoning with incomplete information, reasoning about knowledge and beliefs, and reasoning about games. Proofs as formal objects form the subject of Part II. Topics covered include: contributions on logical frameworks, linear logic, and different approaches to formalized reasoning. Part III focuses on representations and formal methods in linguistic theory, addressing the areas of comparative and temporal expressions, modal subordination, and compositionality.Table of ContentsPreface; Part I. Agents, Games, and Reasoning with Incomplete Information: 1. Commonsense as motion Areski nait Abdallah; 2. Intersubjective consistency of knowledge and belief Giacomo Bonanno and Klaus Nehring; 3. Formalizing potential of agents W. van der Hoek, J.-J. Ch. Meyer and J. W. van Schagen; 4. An introduction to game logic Marc Pauly; Part II. Reasoning Formalized: Logical Frameworks, Resolution, and Proof Theory: 5. Logical frameworks Iliano Cervesato; 6. Axiomatization of a Skolem function in intuitionistic logic Grigori Mints; 7. An overview of resolution decision procedures Hans de Nivelle; 8. From propositional to linear logic: an introduction Harold Schellinx; Part III. Compositions that Make Sense: 9. Dimensional adjectives and measures phrases in vector space semantics Martina Faller; 10. Dynamic context management Stefan Kaufmann; 11. Resolving temporal relations using tense meaning and discourse interpretation Andrew Kehler; 12. Semantic compositionality Francis Jeffrey Pelletier.
£52.00
Centre for the Study of Language & Information Formalizing the Dynamics of Information
Book SynopsisThe papers collected in this volume exemplify some of the trends in current approaches to logic, language and computation. Written by authors with varied academic backgrounds, the contributions are intended for an interdisciplinary audience. The first part of this volume addresses issues relevant for multi-agent systems: reasoning with incomplete information, reasoning about knowledge and beliefs, and reasoning about games. Proofs as formal objects form the subject of Part II. Topics covered include: contributions on logical frameworks, linear logic, and different approaches to formalized reasoning. Part III focuses on representations and formal methods in linguistic theory, addressing the areas of comparative and temporal expressions, modal subordination, and compositionality.Table of ContentsPreface; Part I. Agents, Games, and Reasoning with Incomplete Information: 1. Commonsense as motion Areski nait Abdallah; 2. Intersubjective consistency of knowledge and belief Giacomo Bonanno and Klaus Nehring; 3. Formalizing potential of agents W. van der Hoek, J.-J. Ch. Meyer and J. W. van Schagen; 4. An introduction to game logic Marc Pauly; Part II. Reasoning Formalized: Logical Frameworks, Resolution, and Proof Theory: 5. Logical frameworks Iliano Cervesato; 6. Axiomatization of a Skolem function in intuitionistic logic Grigori Mints; 7. An overview of resolution decision procedures Hans de Nivelle; 8. From propositional to linear logic: an introduction Harold Schellinx; Part III. Compositions that Make Sense: 9. Dimensional adjectives and measures phrases in vector space semantics Martina Faller; 10. Dynamic context management Stefan Kaufmann; 11. Resolving temporal relations using tense meaning and discourse interpretation Andrew Kehler; 12. Semantic compositionality Francis Jeffrey Pelletier.
£29.79
Centre for the Study of Language & Information Implementing Typed Feature Structure Grammars
Book SynopsisMuch of the work in modern formal linguistics is concerned with giving mathematically precise accounts of human languages. Such work is particularly suited for research that involves language processing with computers. This book provides an introduction to one particularly popular approach, typed-feature structure formalisms. Implementing Typed Feature Structure Grammars includes informal (but rigorous) descriptions of typed-feature structure logic as well as formal definitions. The book covers the basics of grammar development by introducing different frameworks to the reader such as categorial grammar and Head-Driven Phrase Structure Grammar, and demonstrates how these can be implemented. Semantic representation is also introduced. The book includes a CD of the LKB system software that allows the reader to experiment with various grammars and learn the details of the formalism. The CD is compatible with Windows, MacOS, Linux and Solaris, and includes a full user manual.
£60.06
Centre for the Study of Language & Information Words, Proofs and Diagrams
Book SynopsisThe past 20 years have witnessed an ever-increasing number of interdisciplinay research collaborations as computer scientists, logicians, linguists, philosophers, and psychologists all explore the same question: how can logic illuminate the nature of information? This collection covers active research areas at the interface of logic, computer science, and linguistics: process logics, formal semantics, language processing, and a new area where all three meet - the study of images and graphics as information carriers, and the diagrammatic reasoning supported by them.
£26.68
Centre for the Study of Language & Information Finite-State Morphology
Book SynopsisThe finite-state paradigm of computer sciences has provided a basis for natural-language applications that are efficient, elegant and robust. This volume is a practical guide to finite-state theory and the affiliated programming languages lexc and xfst. Readers will learn how to write tokenizers, spelling checkers, and especially morphological analyzer/generators for words in English, French, Finnish, Hungarian and other languages. Included are graded introductions, examples, and exercises suitable for individual study as well as formal courses. These take advantage of widely tested lexc and xfst applications that are just becoming available for noncommercial use via the Internet.
£30.40
Centre for the Study of Language & Information Arabic Computational Linguistics
Book SynopsisArabic is an exciting - yet challenging - language for scholars because many of its linguistic properties have not been fully described. "Arabic Computational Linguistics" documents the recent work of researchers in both academia and industry who have taken up the challenge of solving the real-life problems posed by an understudied language. This comprehensive volume explores new Arabic machine translation systems, innovations in speech recognition and mention detection, tree banks, and linguistic corpora. "Arabic Computational Linguistics" will be an indispensable reference for language researchers and practitioners alike.
£37.27
Centre for the Study of Language & Information The Structure of Scientific Articles:
Book SynopsisFinding a particular scientific document amid a sea of thousands of other documents can often seem like an insurmountable task. "The Structure of Scientific Articles" shows how linguistic theory can provide a solution by analyzing rhetorical structures to make information retrieval easier and faster. Through the use of an improved citation indexing system, this indispensable volume applies empirical discourse studies to pressing issues of document management, including attribution, the author's stance towards other work, and problem-solving processes.
£24.70
Centre for the Study of Language & Information Linguistic Issues in Language Technology Vol 9:
Book SynopsisLinguistic Issues in Language Technology focuses on the relationships between linguistic insights and language technology. In conjunction with machine learning and statistical techniques, more sophisticated models of language and speech are needed to make significant progress in both existing and newly emerging areas of computational language analysis. The vast quantity of electronically accessible natural language data provides unprecedented opportunities for data-intensive analysis of linguistic phenomena, which can in turn enrich computational methods. Linguistic Issues in Language Technology provides a forum for this work. In this volume, contributors offer new perspectives on semantic representations for textual inference.
£20.50
Nova Science Publishers Inc Computational Linguistic Text Processing: Logical
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£129.74
Centre for the Study of Language & Information Lingvis: Visual Analytics for Linguistics
Book SynopsisThis volume collects landmark research in a burgeoning field of visual analytics for linguistics, called LingVis. Combining linguistic data and linguistically oriented research questions with techniques and methodologies developed in the computer science fields of visual analytics and information visualization, LingVis is motivated by the growing need within linguistic research for dealing with large amounts of complex, multidimensional data sets. An innovative exploration into the future of LingVis in the digital age, this foundational book both provides a representation of the current state of the field and communicates its new possibilities for addressing complex linguistic questions across the larger linguistic community.
£57.00
ISTE Ltd and John Wiley & Sons Inc Argument Mining: Linguistic Foundations
Book SynopsisThis book is an introduction to the linguistic concepts of argumentation relevant for argument mining, an important research and development activity which can be viewed as a highly complex form of information retrieval, requiring high-level natural language processing technology. While the first four chapters develop the linguistic and conceptual aspects of argument expression, the last four are devoted to their application to argument mining. These chapters investigate the facets of argument annotation, as well as argument mining system architectures and evaluation. How annotations may be used to develop linguistic data and how to train learning algorithms is outlined. A simple implementation is then proposed. The book ends with an analysis of non-verbal argumentative discourse. Argument Mining is an introductory book for engineers or students of linguistics, artificial intelligence and natural language processing. Most, if not all, the concepts of argumentation crucial for argument mining are carefully introduced and illustrated in a simple manner.Table of ContentsPreface xi Chapter 1. Introduction and Challenges 1 1.1. What is argumentation? 1 1.2. Argumentation and argument mining 4 1.3. The origins of argumentation 7 1.4. The argumentative discourse 8 1.5. Contemporary trends 10 Chapter 2. The Structure of Argumentation 13 2.1. The argument–conclusion pair 13 2.2. The elementary argumentative schema 14 2.2.1. Toulmin’s argumentative model 14 2.2.2. Some elaborations and refinements of Toulmin’s model 17 2.2.3. The geometry of arguments 18 2.3. Modeling agreement and disagreement 20 2.3.1. Agreeing versus disagreeing 20 2.3.2. The art of resolving divergences 23 2.4. The structure of an argumentation: argumentation graphs 25 2.5. The role of argument schemes in argumentation 27 2.5.1. Argument schemes: main concepts 27 2.5.2. A few simple illustrations 28 2.5.3. Argument schemes based on analogy 29 2.5.4. Argument schemes based on causality 30 2.6. Relations between Toulmin’s model and argumentation schemes 31 2.6.1. Warrants as a popular opinion 32 2.6.2. Argument schemes based on rules, explanations or hypothesis 34 2.6.3. Argument schemes based on multiple supports or attacks 35 2.6.4. Causality and warrants 37 Chapter 3. The Linguistics of Argumentation 39 3.1. The structure of claims 40 3.2. The linguistics of justifications 45 3.3. Evaluating the strength of claims, justifications and arguments 47 3.3.1. Strength factors within a proposition 49 3.3.2. Structuring expressions of strength by semantic category 51 3.3.3. A simple representation of strength when combining several factors 52 3.3.4. Pragmatic factors of strength expression 53 3.4. Rhetoric and argumentation 59 3.4.1. Rhetoric and communication 60 3.4.2. Logos: the art of reasoning and of constructing demonstrations 61 3.4.3. Ethos: the orator profile 62 3.4.4. Pathos: how to persuade an audience 63 Chapter 4. Advanced Features of Argumentation for Argument Mining 65 4.1. Managing incoherent claims and justifications 65 4.1.1. The case of justifications supporting opposite claims 66 4.1.2. The case of opposite justifications justifying the same claim 67 4.2. Relating claims and justifications: the need for knowledge and reasoning 67 4.2.1. Investigating relatedness via corpus analysis 68 4.2.2. A corpus analysis of the knowledge involved 69 4.2.3. Observation synthesis 72 4.3. Argument synthesis in natural language 74 4.3.1. Features of a synthesis 75 4.3.2. Structure of an argumentation synthesis 76 Chapter 5. From Argumentation to Argument Mining 79 5.1. Some facets of argument mining 79 5.2. Designing annotation guidelines: some methodological elements 81 5.3. What results can be expected from an argument mining system? 82 5.4. Architecture of an argument mining system 83 5.5. The next chapters 84 Chapter 6. Annotation Frameworks and Principles of Argument Analysis 85 6.1. Principles of argument analysis 86 6.1.1. Argumentative discourse units 86 6.1.2. Conclusions and premises 88 6.1.3. Warrants and backings 89 6.1.4. Qualifiers 89 6.1.5. Argument schemes 90 6.1.6. Attack relations: rebuttals, refutations, undercutters 90 6.1.7. Illocutionary forces, speech acts 92 6.1.8. Argument relations 93 6.1.9. Implicit argument components and tailored annotation frameworks 95 6.2. Examples of argument analysis frameworks 97 6.2.1. Rhetorical Structure Theory 97 6.2.2. Toulmin’s model 98 6.2.3. Inference Anchoring Theory 99 6.2.4. Summary 102 6.3. Guidelines for argument analysis 103 6.3.1. Principles of annotation guidelines 103 6.3.2. Inter-annotator agreements 104 6.3.3. Interpretation of IAA measures 105 6.3.4. Some examples of IAAs 106 6.3.5. Summary 107 6.4. Annotation tools 108 6.4.1. Brat 108 6.4.2. RST tool 109 6.4.3. AGORA-net 110 6.4.4. Araucaria 110 6.4.5. Rationale 111 6.4.6. OVA+ 112 6.4.7. Summary 113 6.5. Argument corpora 114 6.5.1. COMARG 115 6.5.2. A news editorial corpus 115 6.5.3. THF Airport ArgMining corpus 115 6.5.4. A Wikipedia articles corpus 115 6.5.5. AraucariaDB 115 6.5.6. An annotated essays corpus 116 6.5.7. A written dialogs corpus 116 6.5.8. A web discourse corpus 116 6.5.9. Argument Interchange Format Database 116 6.5.10. Summary 117 6.6. Conclusion 118 Chapter 7. Argument Mining Applications and Systems 119 7.1. Application domains for argument mining 119 7.1.1. Opinion analysis augmented by argument mining 120 7.1.2. Summarization 120 7.1.3. Essays 120 7.1.4. Dialogues 120 7.1.5. Scientific and news articles 120 7.1.6. The web 121 7.1.7. Legal field 121 7.1.8. Medical field 121 7.1.9. Education 121 7.2. Principles of argument mining systems 122 7.2.1. Argumentative discourse units detection 123 7.2.2. Units labeling 123 7.2.3. Argument structure detection 124 7.2.4. Argument completion 125 7.2.5. Argument structure representation 125 7.3. Some existing systems for argument mining 126 7.3.1. Automatic detection of rhetorical relations 126 7.3.2. Argument zoning 126 7.3.3. Stance detection 127 7.3.4. Argument mining for persuasive essays 127 7.3.5. Argument mining for web discourse 127 7.3.6. Argument mining for social media 128 7.3.7. Argument scheme classification and enthymemes reconstruction 128 7.3.8. Argument classes and argument strength classification 128 7.3.9. Textcoop 129 7.3.10. IBM debating technologies 129 7.3.11. Argument mining for legal texts 129 7.4. Efficiency and limitations of existing argument mining systems 130 7.5. Conclusion 131 Chapter 8. A Computational Model and a Simple Grammar-Based Implementation 133 8.1. Identification of argumentative units 134 8.1.1. Challenges raised by the identification of argumentative units 134 8.1.2. Some linguistic techniques to identify ADUs 135 8.2. Mining for claims 139 8.2.1. The grammar formalisms 140 8.2.2. Lexical issues 142 8.2.3. Grammatical issues 145 8.2.4. Templates for claim analysis 148 8.3. Mining for supports and attacks 150 8.3.1. Structures introduced by connectors 150 8.3.2. Structures introduced by propositional attitudes 151 8.3.3. Other linguistic forms to express supports or attacks 152 8.4. Evaluating strength 153 8.5. Epilogue 154 Chapter 9. Non-Verbal Dimensions of Argumentation: a Challenge for Argument Mining 155 9.1. The text and its additions 156 9.1.1. Text, pictures and icons 156 9.1.2. Transcriptions of oral debates 156 9.2. Argumentation and visual aspects 157 9.3. Argumentation and sound aspects 158 9.3.1. Music and rationality 159 9.3.2. Main features of musical structure: musical knowledge representation 160 9.4. Impact of non-verbal aspects on argument strength and on argument schemes 161 9.5. Ethical aspects 162 Bibliography 163 Index 175
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Peter Lang Ltd Cognitive Insights into Discourse Markers and
Book SynopsisThis volume employs a range of empirical methodologies including eyetracking, direct observation, qualitative research and corpus analysis to describe the use of discourse markers in second language acquisition. The variety of different approaches used by the contributors facilitates the observation of correlations between morphosyntactic, semantic and pragmatic features of discourse markers and enriches our understanding of the cognitive behaviour of L2 speakers, both in the understanding and production of texts. Some of the essays examine the acquisitional paths of discourse markers in instructional and natural contexts, with a particular focus on situations of language contact and social integration; others describe experimental studies that analyse the cognitive processing of discourse markers in L2 learners. All the contributions aim to offer new insights which will expand and develop existing theoretical claims about this area of study and open up avenues for further research.
£50.04
Multilingual Matters Perspectives on the L2 Phrasicon: The View from
Book SynopsisThis is the very first book to investigate the field of phraseology from a learner corpus perspective, bringing together studies at the cutting edge of corpus-based research into phraseology and language learners. The chapters include learner-corpus-based studies of phraseological units in varieties of learner language differentiated in terms of task and/or learner variables, compared with each other or with one or more reference corpora; mixed-methods studies that combine learner corpus data with more experimental data types (e.g. eyetracking); and instruction-oriented studies that show how learner-corpus-based insights can be used to inform second language (L2) teaching and testing. The detailed analysis of a wide range of multiword units (collocations, lexical bundles, lexico-grammatical patterns) and extensive learner corpus data provide the reader with a comprehensive theoretical, methodological and applied perspective onto L2 use in a wide range of situations. The knowledge gained from these learner corpus studies has major implications for L2 theory and practice and will help to inform pedagogical assessment and practice.Trade ReviewThis is an excellent overview of recent findings from the area of learner corpus research and phraseology. With valuable contributions from experts in the field, the volume provides a wealth of insights into the current methodologies and developments at the interface of corpus linguistics, learner corpora and second language acquisition. A very-much needed and timely resource for students and researchers interested in this fast-growing field. * Paweł Szudarski, University of Nottingham, UK *Sylviane Granger brings together a collection of cutting-edge studies by key researchers examining the use of phraseological units in learner corpora. The volume is engaging, accessible, and a valuable addition to the literature on phraseology. It should become an important resource for both graduate students and scholars. * Stuart Webb, University of Western Ontario, Canada *This volume is essential reading for anyone interested in learner language and the links between phraseology and acquisition. It curates cutting-edge work from many expert perspectives and showcases a range of corpora and methodologies. Most significantly, chapters go beyond describing and contrasting learner language, they address important second language acquisition research questions using learner corpus research tools. * Anne O’Keeffe, Mary Immaculate College, University of Limerick, Ireland *...this volume is a unique collection of high quality research on L2 phraseology, one for which it is difficult to find a substitute. The book is therefore a must-read for scholars and students who wish to know more about the most recent updates of research on L2 phrasicon. -- Mohsen Shirazizadeh, Alzahra University, Iran * LINGUIST List 33.170 *Table of ContentsContributors Part 1: Introduction 1. Sylviane Granger: Phraseology, Corpora and L2 Research Part 2: The Learner Phrasicon: Synchronic Approaches 2. Signe Oksefjell Ebeling and Hilde Hasselgård: The Functions of N-grams in Bilingual and Learner Corpora: An Integrated Contrastive Approach 3. Henrik Gyllstad and Per Snoder: Exploring Learner Corpus Data for Language Testing and Assessment Purposes: The Case of Verb + Noun Collocations 4. Gaëtanelle Gilquin and Sylviane Granger: The Passive and the Lexis-Grammar Interface: An Inter-varietal Perspective Part 3: The Learner Phrasicon: Developmental Approaches 5. Rachel Rubin, Alex Housen and Magali Paquot: Phraseological Complexity as an Index of L2 Dutch Writing Proficiency: A Partial Replication Study 6. Kristopher Kyle and Masaki Eguchi: Automatically Assessing Lexical Sophistication Using Word, Bigram, and Dependency Indices 7. Vaclav Brezina and Lorrae Fox: Adjective + Noun Collocations in L2 and L1 Speech: Evidence from the Trinity Lancaster Corpus and the Spoken BNC2014 8. Taha Omidian, Anna Siyanova-Chanturia and Stefania Spina: Development of Formulaic Knowledge in Learner Writing: A Longitudinal Perspective 9. Marco Schilk: Tracing Collocation in Learner Production and Processing: Integrating Corpus Linguistic and Experimental Approaches Part 4: Postface 10. David Singleton: Phrasicon, Phrase, Phraseology Index
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Peter Lang International Academic Publishers Audiovisual Translation – Subtitles and
Book SynopsisAn increasing number of contributions have appeared in recent years on the subject of Audiovisual Translation (AVT), particularly in relation to dubbing and subtitling. The broad scope of this branch of Translation Studies is challenging because it brings together diverse disciplines, including film studies, translatology, semiotics, linguistics, applied linguistics, cognitive psychology, technology and ICT.This volume addresses issues relating to AVT research and didactics. The first section is dedicated to theoretical aspects in order to stimulate further debate and encourage progress in research-informed teaching. The second section focuses on a less developed area of research in the field of AVT: its potential use in foreign language pedagogy.This collection of articles is intended to create a discourse on new directions in AVT and foreign language learning. The book begins with reflections on wider methodological issues, advances to a proposed model of analysis for colloquial speech, touches on more «niche» aspects of AVT (e.g. surtitling), progresses to didactic applications in foreign language pedagogy and learning at both linguistic and cultural levels, and concludes with a practical proposal for the use of AVT in foreign language classes. An interview with a professional subtitler draws the volume to a close.Table of ContentsContents: The Application of Action Research to Audiovisual Translation – When Orality Is Less Pre-fabricated: An Analytical Model for the Study of Colloquial Conversation in Audiovisual Translation – Titling for the Opera House: A Test Case for Universals of Translation? – The Surtitling in Catalan of Classic Foreign Theatre Plays – Intercultural Learning through Subtitling: The Cultural Studies Approach – Bringing Gender into the Subtitling Classroom – Formal and Casual Language Learning: What Subtitles Have to Of fer Minority Languages like Irish – Subtitle Consumption according to Eye Tracking Data: An Acquisitional Perspective – A Quasi-experimental Research Project on Subtitling and Foreign Language Acquisition – Subtitling Activities for Foreign Language Learning: What Learners and Teachers Think – Learn through Subtitling: Subtitling as an Aid to Language Learning – A Professional’s Perspective.
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Imperial College Press Parsing Schemata For Practical Text Analysis
Book SynopsisThe book presents a wide range of recent research results about parsing schemata, introducing formal frameworks and theoretical results while keeping a constant focus on applicability to practical parsing problems. The first part includes a general introduction to the parsing schemata formalism that contains the basic notions needed to understand the rest of the parts. Thus, this compendium can be used as an introduction to natural language parsing, allowing postgraduate students not only to get a solid grasp of the fundamental concepts underlying parsing algorithms, but also an understanding of the latest developments and challenges in the field.Researchers in computational linguistics will find novel results where parsing schemata are applied to current problems that are being actively researched in the computational linguistics community (like dependency parsing, robust parsing, or the treatment of non-projective linguistics phenomena). This book not only explains these results in a more detailed, comprehensive and self-contained way, and highlights the relations between them, but also includes new contributions that have not been presented.Table of ContentsIntroduction; Preliminaries; A Compiler for Parsing Schemata; Comparing Constituency Parsers in Practical Settings; Practical Complexity of TAG Parsers; Error-Repair Parsing Schemata; Transforming Standard Parsers into Error-Repair Parsers; Dependency Parsing Schemata; Mildly Non-Projective Dependency Parsing;
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ISTE Ltd and John Wiley & Sons Inc Formalizing Natural Languages: The NooJ Approach
Book SynopsisThis book is at the very heart of linguistics. It provides the theoretical and methodological framework needed to create a successful linguistic project. Potential applications of descriptive linguistics include spell-checkers, intelligent search engines, information extractors and annotators, automatic summary producers, automatic translators, and more. These applications have considerable economic potential, and it is therefore important for linguists to make use of these technologies and to be able to contribute to them. The author provides linguists with tools to help them formalize natural languages and aid in the building of software able to automatically process texts written in natural language (Natural Language Processing, or NLP). Computers are a vital tool for this, as characterizing a phenomenon using mathematical rules leads to its formalization. NooJ – a linguistic development environment software developed by the author – is described and practically applied to examples of NLP.Trade ReviewThis book lays ground for better understanding of both computational linguistics (CL) and natural language processing (NLP) perspectives, i.e. it shows how to describe language (CL) in order to build the best NLP applications (NLP). The book bridges the gap between theoretical linguistic phenomena and practical language models. It shows how computational linguists and language engineers working together can bring us closer to better language understanding by both humans and computers. The author takes us on a stroll through the layers of language processing, explaining very soundly and giving examples and counterexamples that bring additional clarification for each step we make on that path. Starting with the tiny bits of written language, the alphabet, via dictionary and atomic linguistic units that occupy it, he clarifies the importance of each step, giving us solid ground to build upon any language project we might venture to undertake. Silberztein knows how to invite an audience into his Project, as he calls it, and introduces the topic in such a manner that makes you want to read the book until the last page (and solve all the CL and NLP problems on the way). He smoothly transitions through Parts one, two and three, building one topic upon the previous one, as if playing with lego blocks. He begins by demonstrating the importance of defining basic (atomic) linguistic units starting with the alphabet and vocabulary that prepare us for the construction of electronic dictionaries. It is the design of the e-dictionary that will allow us and support us in formalizing the language of our interest. Thus, it is not a surprise that a thorough classification and understanding of our basic resources is needed to prepare (and prepare well) and specify affixes [re-, de-, un-, -ation], simple words [home, love, sky], multiword units [sweet potatoes, more and more, round table] and expressions [to give up, to turn off, to take off] that we will play around with to construct and annotate new words, phrases and sentences. He then takes regular grammars, context-free grammars, context-sensitive grammars and unrestricted grammars and he makes them all work via NooJ’s multifaceted approach. The (beautiful) simplicity of this application is aligned with the way we, as humans, process vocabulary, grammar, orthography, syntax, semantics…thus making the NooJ as a tool easy to use by beginners and more advanced users alike. It is only expected that the journey will end with applications both in parsing and generating written text. We are presented with the lexical analysis, syntactic analysis (local and structural) and transformational analysis that open up the door for more sophisticated NLP applications (Question Answering, Machine Translation, Semantic Analyzer, etc.) The most expected audience of ‘"Formalizing Natural Languages: The NooJ Approach’ are linguists i.e. computational linguists and NLP people (or as the author likes to call them language engieers). But, since the book holds the key that can open a whole sea of possible applications in the domains of other subfields, I would recommend it to etymologists, sociolinguists, psycholinguists, forensic linguists, internet linguists, corpus linguists or to any data scientist today. Having each chapter end with exercises and additional internet links, the book is also suitable as a class reading in NLP and CL classes, machine translation and similar. The book is presented in a way as to improve the understanding of the ways the natural language can be formalized and has the power to reveal some new applications to almost any type of written text. Since the book and NooJ as a tool came into existence in the era dominated by unstructured data, the potential of presented tool is limited only by the imagination of its user. —Kristina Kocijan, Department of Information and Communication Sciences Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences University of Zagreb, CroatiaTable of ContentsAcknowledgments xi Chapter 1. Introduction: the Project 1 1.1. Characterizing a set of infinite size 4 1.2. Computers and linguistics 5 1.3. Levels of formalization 6 1.4. Not applicable 7 1.4.1. Poetry and plays on words 7 1.4.2. Stylistics and rhetoric 9 1.4.3. Anaphora, coreference resolution, and semantic disambiguation 10 1.4.4. Extralinguistic calculations 12 1.5. NLP applications 12 1.5.1. Automatic translation 14 1.5.2. Part-of-speech (POS) tagging 18 1.5.3. Linguistic rather than stochastic analysis 27 1.6. Linguistic formalisms: NooJ 27 1.7. Conclusion and structure of this book 30 1.8. Exercises 31 1.9. Internet links 32 Part 1. Linguistic Units 35 Chapter 2. Formalizing the Alphabet 37 2.1. Bits and bytes 37 2.2. Digitizing information 39 2.3. Representing natural numbers 39 2.3.1. Decimal notation 39 2.3.2. Binary notation 40 2.3.3. Hexadecimal notation 41 2.4. Encoding characters 41 2.4.1. Standardization of encodings 43 2.4.2. Accented Latin letters, diacritical marks, and ligatures 45 2.4.3. Extended ASCII encodings 46 2.4.4. Unicode 47 2.5. Alphabetical order 53 2.6. Classification of characters 56 2.7. Conclusion 56 2.8. Exercises 57 2.9. Internet links 57 Chapter 3. Defining Vocabulary 59 3.1. Multiple vocabularies and the evolution of vocabulary 59 3.2. Derivation 63 3.2.1. Derivation applies to vocabulary elements 63 3.2.2. Derivations are unpredictable 64 3.2.3. Atomicity of derived words 65 3.3. Atomic linguistic units (ALUs) 67 3.3.1. Classification of ALUs 67 3.4. Multiword units versus analyzable sequences of simple words 70 3.4.1. Semantics 72 3.4.2. Usage 76 3.4.3. Transformational analysis 77 3.5. Conclusion 80 3.6. Exercises 81 3.7. Internet links 81 Chapter 4. Electronic Dictionaries 83 4.1. Could editorial dictionaries be reused? 83 4.2. LADL electronic dictionaries 90 4.2.1. Lexicon-grammar 90 4.2.2. DELA 93 4.3. Dubois and Dubois-Charlier electronic dictionaries 94 4.3.1. The Dictionnaire électronique des mots 95 4.3.2. Les Verbes Français (LVF) 97 4.4. Specifications for the construction of an electronic dictionary 99 4.4.1. One ALU = one lexical entry 99 4.4.2. Importance of derivation 100 4.4.3. Orthographic variation 101 4.4.4. Inflection of simple words, compound words, and expressions 103 4.4.5. Expressions 104 4.4.6. Integration of syntax and semantics 104 4.5. Conclusion 107 4.6. Exercises 108 4.7. Internet links 108 Part 2. Languages, Grammars and Machines 111 Chapter 5. Languages, Grammars, and Machines 113 5.1. Definitions 113 5.1.1. Letters and alphabets 113 5.1.2. Words and languages 114 5.1.3. ALU, vocabularies, phrases, and languages 114 5.1.4. Empty string 115 5.1.5. Free language 116 5.1.6. Grammars 116 5.1.7. Machines 117 5.2. Generative grammars 118 5.3. Chomsky-Schützenberger hierarchy 119 5.3.1. Linguistic formalisms 122 5.4. The NooJ approach 124 5.4.1. A multifaceted approach 124 5.4.2. Unified notation 125 5.4.3. Cascading architecture 127 5.5. Conclusion 127 5.6. Exercises 128 5.7. Internet links 129 Chapter 6. Regular Grammars 131 6.1. Regular expressions 131 6.1.1. Some examples of regular expressions 135 6.2. Finite-state graphs 137 6.3. Non-deterministic and deterministic graphs 139 6.4. Minimal deterministic graphs 141 6.5. Kleene’s theorem 142 6.6. Regular expressions with outputs and finite-state transducers 146 6.7. Extensions of regular grammars 151 6.7.1. Lexical symbols 151 6.7.2. Syntactic symbols 153 6.7.3. Symbols defined by grammars 154 6.7.4. Special operators 155 6.8. Conclusion 159 6.9. Exercises 159 6.10. Internet links 159 Chapter 7. Context-Free Grammars 161 7.1. Recursion 164 7.1.1. Right recursion 166 7.1.2. Left recursion 167 7.1.3. Middle recursion 168 7.2. Parse trees 170 7.3. Conclusion 173 7.4. Exercises 173 7.5. Internet links 174 Chapter 8. Context-Sensitive Grammars 175 8.1. The NooJ approach 176 8.1.1. The anbncn language 177 8.1.2. The language a2n 180 8.1.3. Handling reduplications 181 8.1.4. Grammatical agreements 182 8.1.5. Lexical constraints in morphological grammars 185 8.2. NooJ contextual constraints 186 8.3. NooJ variables 188 8.3.1. Variables’ scope 188 8.3.2. Computing a variable’s value 189 8.3.3. Inheriting a variable’s value 191 8.4. Conclusion 191 8.5. Exercises 192 8.6. Internet links 192 Chapter 9. Unrestricted Grammars 195 9.1. Linguistic adequacy 197 9.2. Conclusion 199 9.3. Exercise 199 9.4. Internet links 199 Part 3. Automatic Linguistic Parsing 201 Chapter 10. Text Annotation Structure 205 10.1. Parsing a text 205 10.2. Annotations 206 10.2.1. Limits of XML/TEI representation 207 10.3. Text annotation structure (TAS) 208 10.4. Exercise 211 10.5. Internet links 212 Chapter 11. Lexical Analysis 213 11.1. Tokenization 213 11.1.1. Letter recognition 214 11.1.2. Apostrophe/quote 217 11.1.3. Dash/hyphen 219 11.1.4. Dot/period/point ambiguity 222 11.2. Word forms 224 11.2.1. Space and punctuation 224 11.2.2. Numbers 226 11.2.3. Words in upper case 228 11.3. Morphological analyses 229 11.3.1. Inflectional morphology 230 11.3.2. Derivational morphology 234 11.3.3. Lexical morphology 236 11.3.4. Agglutinations 239 11.4. Multiword unit recognition 241 11.5. Recognizing expressions 243 11.5.1. Characteristic constituent 244 11.5.2. Varying the characteristic constituent 245 11.5.3. Varying the light verb 246 11.5.4. Resolving ambiguity 247 11.5.5. Annotating expressions 251 11.6. Conclusion 254 11.7. Exercise 255 Chapter 12. Syntactic Analysis 257 12.1. Local grammars 257 12.1.1. Named entities 257 12.1.2. Grammatical word sequences 262 12.1.3. Automatically identifying ambiguity 263 12.2. Structural grammars 265 12.2.1. Complex atomic linguistic units 266 12.2.2. Structured annotations 268 12.2.3. Ambiguities 270 12.2.4. Syntax trees vs parse trees 273 12.2.5. Dependency grammar and tree 276 12.2.6. Resolving ambiguity transparently 279 12.3. Conclusion 280 12.4. Exercises 281 12.5. Internet links 281 Chapter 13. Transformational Analysis 283 13.1. Implementing transformations 286 13.2. Theoretical problems 292 13.2.1. Equivalence of transformation sequences 292 13.2.2. Ambiguities in transformed sentences 293 13.2.3. Theoretical sentences 294 13.2.4. The number of transformations to be implemented 295 13.3. Transformational analysis with NooJ 297 13.3.1. Applying a grammar in “generation” mode 298 13.3.2. The transformation’s arguments 299 13.4. Question answering 303 13.5. Semantic analysis 304 13.6. Machine translation 305 13.7. Conclusion 309 13.8. Exercises 309 13.9. Internet links 310 Conclusion 311 Bibliography 315 Index 327
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Centre for the Study of Language & Information Feature Logics, Infinitary Descriptions and
Book SynopsisConstraint and unification-based approaches to grammar have become increasingly popular in computational linguistics because of their flexibility and descriptive power. These approaches have developed an important notion of feature structures that play a key role in the representation of linguistic information. This book provides a detailed survey and comparison of recent approaches to the logical formalization of feature structures and their description languages in constraint and unification-based grammar formalisms. Bill Keller is a lecturer in computer science and artificial intelligence in the School of Cognitive and Computing Sciences at the University of Sussex.
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Springer Nature Switzerland AG Vagueness and Rationality in Language Use and
Book SynopsisThis volume presents new conceptual and experimental studies which investigate the connection between vagueness and rationality from various systematic directions, such as philosophy, linguistics, cognitive psychology, computing science, and economics. Vagueness in language use and cognition has traditionally been interpreted in epistemic or semantic terms. The standard view of vagueness specifically suggests that considerations of agency or rationality, broadly conceived, can be left out of the equation. Most recently, new literature on vagueness has been released which suggests that the standard view is inadequate and that considerations of rationality should factor into more comprehensive models of vagueness. The methodological approaches presented here are diverse, ranging from philosophical interpretations of rational credence for vagueness to adaptations of choice theory (dynamic choice theory, revealed preference models, social choice theory), probabilistic models of pragmatic reasoning (Bayesian pragmatics), evolutionary game theory, and conceptual space models of categorisation.Table of ContentsPart I: Vagueness in Rational Choice.- Vagueness and Imprecise Credence by Anna Mahtani.- Problems of Precision in Fuzzy Theories of Vagueness and Bayesian Epistemology by Nicholas J. J. Smith.- Regret, Sub-optimality, and Vagueness by Chrisoula Andreou.- Part II: Rationality in Vague Language Use and Cognition.- The Elusive Benefits of Vagueness: The Evidence so far by Matthew James Green and Kees van Deemter.- Towards an Ecology of Vagueness by José Pedro Correia and Michael Franke.- The Rationality of Vagueness by Igor Douven.- Semantic Indecision by Timoth W. Grinsell.- Grounding a Pragmatic Theory of Vagueness on Experimental Data: Semi-orders adn Weber's Law by Arnold Kochari and Robert van Rooij
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Springer Nature Switzerland AG Multivariate Humanities
Book SynopsisThis case study-based textbook in multivariate analysis for advanced students in the humanities emphasizes descriptive, exploratory analyses of various types of datasets from a wide range of sub-disciplines, promoting the use of multivariate analysis and illustrating its wide applicability. Fields featured include, but are not limited to, historical agriculture, arts (music and painting), theology, and stylometrics (authorship issues). Most analyses are based on existing data, earlier analysed in published peer-reviewed papers.Four preliminary methodological and statistical chapters provide general technical background to the case studies. The multivariate statistical methods presented and illustrated include data inspection, several varieties of principal component analysis, correspondence analysis, multidimensional scaling, cluster analysis, regression analysis, discriminant analysis, and three-mode analysis.The bulk of the text is taken up by 14 case studies that lean heavily on graphical representations of statistical information such as biplots, using descriptive statistical techniques to support substantive conclusions. Each study features a description of the substantive background to the data, followed by discussion of appropriate multivariate techniques, and detailed results interpreted through graphical illustrations. Each study is concluded with a conceptual summary. Datasets in SPSS are included online.Table of Contents
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Springer Nature Switzerland AG Multivariate Humanities
Book SynopsisThis case study-based textbook in multivariate analysis for advanced students in the humanities emphasizes descriptive, exploratory analyses of various types of datasets from a wide range of sub-disciplines, promoting the use of multivariate analysis and illustrating its wide applicability. Fields featured include, but are not limited to, historical agriculture, arts (music and painting), theology, and stylometrics (authorship issues). Most analyses are based on existing data, earlier analysed in published peer-reviewed papers.Four preliminary methodological and statistical chapters provide general technical background to the case studies. The multivariate statistical methods presented and illustrated include data inspection, several varieties of principal component analysis, correspondence analysis, multidimensional scaling, cluster analysis, regression analysis, discriminant analysis, and three-mode analysis.The bulk of the text is taken up by 14 case studies that lean heavily on graphical representations of statistical information such as biplots, using descriptive statistical techniques to support substantive conclusions. Each study features a description of the substantive background to the data, followed by discussion of appropriate multivariate techniques, and detailed results interpreted through graphical illustrations. Each study is concluded with a conceptual summary. Datasets in SPSS are included online.Table of Contents
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Springer International Publishing AG Sentiment Analysis and Opinion Mining
Book SynopsisSentiment analysis and opinion mining is the field of study that analyzes people's opinions, sentiments, evaluations, attitudes, and emotions from written language. It is one of the most active research areas in natural language processing and is also widely studied in data mining, Web mining, and text mining. In fact, this research has spread outside of computer science to the management sciences and social sciences due to its importance to business and society as a whole. The growing importance of sentiment analysis coincides with the growth of social media such as reviews, forum discussions, blogs, micro-blogs, Twitter, and social networks. For the first time in human history, we now have a huge volume of opinionated data recorded in digital form for analysis. Sentiment analysis systems are being applied in almost every business and social domain because opinions are central to almost all human activities and are key influencers of our behaviors. Our beliefs and perceptions of reality, and the choices we make, are largely conditioned on how others see and evaluate the world. For this reason, when we need to make a decision we often seek out the opinions of others. This is true not only for individuals but also for organizations. This book is a comprehensive introductory and survey text. It covers all important topics and the latest developments in the field with over 400 references. It is suitable for students, researchers and practitioners who are interested in social media analysis in general and sentiment analysis in particular. Lecturers can readily use it in class for courses on natural language processing, social media analysis, text mining, and data mining. Lecture slides are also available online. Table of Contents: Preface / Sentiment Analysis: A Fascinating Problem / The Problem of Sentiment Analysis / Document Sentiment Classification / Sentence Subjectivity and Sentiment Classification / Aspect-Based Sentiment Analysis / Sentiment Lexicon Generation / Opinion Summarization / Analysis of Comparative Opinions / Opinion Search and Retrieval / Opinion Spam Detection / Quality of Reviews / Concluding Remarks / Bibliography / Author BiographyTable of ContentsPreface.- Sentiment Analysis: A Fascinating Problem.- The Problem of Sentiment Analysis.- Document Sentiment Classification.- Sentence Subjectivity and Sentiment Classification.- Aspect-Based Sentiment Analysis.- Sentiment Lexicon Generation.- Opinion Summarization.- Analysis of Comparative Opinions.- Opinion Search and Retrieval.- Opinion Spam Detection.- Quality of Reviews.- Concluding Remarks.- Bibliography.- Author Biography.
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Springer International Publishing AG Conversational AI: Dialogue Systems,
Book SynopsisThis book provides a comprehensive introduction to Conversational AI. While the idea of interacting with a computer using voice or text goes back a long way, it is only in recent years that this idea has become a reality with the emergence of digital personal assistants, smart speakers, and chatbots. Advances in AI, particularly in deep learning, along with the availability of massive computing power and vast amounts of data, have led to a new generation of dialogue systems and conversational interfaces. Current research in Conversational AI focuses mainly on the application of machine learning and statistical data-driven approaches to the development of dialogue systems. However, it is important to be aware of previous achievements in dialogue technology and to consider to what extent they might be relevant to current research and development. Three main approaches to the development of dialogue systems are reviewed: rule-based systems that are handcrafted using best practice guidelines; statistical data-driven systems based on machine learning; and neural dialogue systems based on end-to-end learning. Evaluating the performance and usability of dialogue systems has become an important topic in its own right, and a variety of evaluation metrics and frameworks are described. Finally, a number of challenges for future research are considered, including: multimodality in dialogue systems, visual dialogue; data efficient dialogue model learning; using knowledge graphs; discourse and dialogue phenomena; hybrid approaches to dialogue systems development; dialogue with social robots and in the Internet of Things; and social and ethical issues.Table of ContentsPreface.- Acknowledgments.- Glossary.- Introducing Dialogue Systems.- Rule-Based Dialogue Systems: Architecture, Methods, and Tools.- Statistical Data-Driven Dialogue Systems.- Evaluating Dialogue Systems.- End-to-End Neural Dialogue Systems.- Challenges and Future Directions.- Bibliography.- Author's Biography .
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Springer International Publishing AG Computational Linguistics and Intelligent Text
Book SynopsisThe two-volume set LNCS 13451 and 13452 constitutes revised selected papers from the CICLing 2019 conference which took place in La Rochelle, France, April 2019.The total of 95 papers presented in the two volumes was carefully reviewed and selected from 335 submissions. The book also contains 3 invited papers. The papers are organized in the following topical sections: General, Information extraction, Information retrieval, Language modeling, Lexical resources, Machine translation, Morphology, sintax, parsing, Name entity recognition, Semantics and text similarity, Sentiment analysis, Speech processing, Text categorization, Text generation, and Text mining.Table of ContentsArtificial intelligence.- Natural language processing.- Information extraction.- Lexical semantics.- Natural language generation.- Language resources.- Phonology .- Morphology.- Discourse.- Dialogue and pragmatics.
£75.99
Springer Nature Switzerland Natural Scientific Language Processing and
Book Synopsis
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Peter Lang AG, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften Professional English in the European Context: The
Book SynopsisMore than ever, professional English is now cruising towards an enormous challenge in the European university context due to the extremely significant moment we are living in the European Higher Education Area (EHEA). The European convergence process is demanding immediate reflections, serious analyses, and profound reforms in specialized language teaching that lead to reach Bologna standards by 2010. This book aims to present an overview of professional English in the current academic landscape in Europe. It intends to shed light on a range of issues, both theoretical and practical, related to ESP, focusing on discourse analysis, corpus analysis, information and communication technologies, methodological approaches, curriculum design, and empirical research into language learning in broad terms. Because teachers need to be researchers and inquirers, this overview thus makes a contribution to the professional English field with the purpose of highlighting several important questions in the entire ESP academic mainstream. Scholars from different European universities explore specialized languages and document ESP teaching methodologies at university levels from a multidimensional perspective.Trade Review«(...) ‘Professional English in the European Context: the EHEA Challenge’ is highly recommendable not only to understand the challenge that European University as a whole is facing at the moment, but also as a useful collection of empirical experiences for those engaged in ESP teaching. Hence, the book fully attains its goal of both presenting theoretical basis and practical experience on ESP in the new European Higher Education scenario as derived from the implementation of the Bologna process. It is a welcome and useful addition to the growing set of published materials on the new EHEA. Thus, it is unquestionably timely and pertinent.» (Angela Alameda Hernández, Journal of English Studies)Table of ContentsContents: Ángeles Linde López: Introduction and overview – Silvia Bernardini/Adriano Ferraresi/Federico Gaspari: Institutional academic English in the European context: a web-as-corpus approach to comparing native and non-native language – Maria Kuteeva: Learner perceptions of online collaboration across cultures: using Wikis in ESP courses in Portugal and in Sweden – Ángel Felices Lago: Teaching and research in Business English: a descriptive approach to the Spanish context – Mª Luisa Pérez Cañado: Adapting professional English to the EHEA: the case of English for Tourism – Mª Isabel Balteiro Fernández: Foreign words in the English of textiles – Ana Bocanegra-Valle: Global markets, global challenges: the role of Maritime English in the shipping industry – Miguel Ángel Campos-Pardillos: Going beyond the obvious in English for Legal Purposes: a few remarks on International Legal English as a Lingua Franca in Europe – Rosalía Crespo Jiménez: Describing Science texts: identifying multi-worded terms on the basis of their collocational behaviour – Pascual Pérez-Paredes: Ontologies and the study of Legal English – Carmen Sancho Guinda: A three-level multidimensional approach to Aeroenglish: distinctive features and professional uses – Marta Aguilar/Cláudia Barahona: An analysis of engineering students’ perceptions after developing a collaborative technical writing project – Ángeles Linde López: A study of perceptions of English interlanguage pragmatics in the ESP context – Ana Martínez Vela: Motivation in English language learning for future use in a specific professional field – Jean Stephenson/Elaine Hewitt: Foreign language anxiety in Spanish students of English for Professional Purposes: its relationships with self-assessed levels, with expectations of success, and with actual performance in the four skills.
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Peter Lang AG, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften Audiovisual Translation – Subtitles and
Book SynopsisAn increasing number of contributions have appeared in recent years on the subject of Audiovisual Translation (AVT), particularly in relation to dubbing and subtitling. The broad scope of this branch of Translation Studies is challenging because it brings together diverse disciplines, including film studies, translatology, semiotics, linguistics, applied linguistics, cognitive psychology, technology and ICT. This volume addresses issues relating to AVT research and didactics. The first section is dedicated to theoretical aspects in order to stimulate further debate and encourage progress in research-informed teaching. The second section focuses on a less developed area of research in the field of AVT: its potential use in foreign language pedagogy. This collection of articles is intended to create a discourse on new directions in AVT and foreign language learning. The book begins with reflections on wider methodological issues, advances to a proposed model of analysis for colloquial speech, touches on more ‘niche’ aspects of AVT (e.g. surtitling), progresses to didactic applications in foreign language pedagogy and learning at both linguistic and cultural levels, and concludes with a practical proposal for the use of AVT in foreign language classes. An interview with a professional subtitler draws the volume to a close.Table of ContentsContents: Łukasz Bogucki: The Application of Action Research to Audiovisual Translation – Lupe Romero: When Orality Is Less Pre-fabricated: An Analytical Model for the Study of Colloquial Conversation in Audiovisual Translation – Maria Freddi/Silvia Luraghi: Titling for the Opera House: A Test Case for Universals of Translation? – Eduard Bartoll: The Surtitling in Catalan of Classic Foreign Theatre Plays – Claudia Borghetti: Intercultural Learning through Subtitling: The Cultural Studies Approach – Marcella De Marco: Bringing Gender into the Subtitling Classroom – Eithne O’Connell: Formal and Casual Language Learning: What Subtitles Have to Offer Minority Languages like Irish – Elisa Perego/Elisa Ghia: Subtitle Consumption according to Eye Tracking Data: An Acquisitional Perspective – Noa Talaván Zanón: A Quasi-experimental Research Project on Subtitling and Foreign Language Acquisition – Stavroula Sokoli/Patrick Zabalbeascoa/Maria Fountana: Subtitling Activities for Foreign Language Learning: What Learners and Teachers Think – Laura Incalcaterra McLoughlin/Jennifer Lertola: Learn through Subtitling: Subtitling as an Aid to Language Learning – Carlo Eugeni: A Professional’s Perspective.
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Peter Lang AG, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften Academic Identity Traits: A Corpus-Based
Book SynopsisThis volume investigates identity traits in academic discourse. Its main purpose is to better understand how and to what extent language forms and functions are adapting to the globalisation of academic discourse. Key factors of verbal behaviour such as the affiliation of actors to one or more cultures have been found to interact, producing transversal identities that are independent of local traits, with a tendency to merge and hybridise in an intercultural sense. The volume consists of three main parts: The first deals with identity traits across languages and cultures, as the use of a given language affects the writing of a scholar, especially when it is not his/her native language. The second comprises investigations of identity features characterising specific disciplinary communities or marking a differentiation from other branches of knowledge. The third part of the volume deals with identity aspects emerging from genre and gender variation.Table of ContentsContents: Maurizio Gotti: Introduction – Maurizio Gotti: Variation in Academic Texts – Maurizio Gotti: The CADIS Corpus – Davide S. Giannoni: Local/Global Identities and the Medical Editorial Genre – Larissa D’Angelo: Identity Conflicts in Book Reviews: A Cross-disciplinary Comparison – Stefania M. Maci: The Discussion Section of Medical Research Articles: A Cross-cultural Perspective – Michele Sala: Different Systems, Different Styles: Legal Expertise and Professional Identities in Legal Research Articles – Ulisse Belotti: Variations of Identity in Single- and Multi-Authored Economics RA Abstracts – Davide S. Giannoni: Evaluation and Popularisation in Journal Editorials: Medicine vs Applied Linguistics – Davide S. Giannoni: Metaphoric Expressions and Editorial Identity Across Disciplines – Michele Sala: Metadiscursive Resources as Indicators of Disciplinary Variation – Michele Sala: Interrogative Forms as Engagement Markers: A Diachronic Perspective – Stefania M. Maci: Fast-track Publications: The Genre of Medical Research Letters – Larissa D’Angelo: Academic Poster Presentations: Mapping the Genre – Stefania M. Maci: The Genre of Medical Conference Posters – Larissa D’Angelo: Exploring Gender Identity in Academic Research Articles and Book Reviews.
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Peter Lang AG, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften Insights into Academic Genres
Book SynopsisThis volume presents the latest research of an international group of scholars, engaged in the analysis of academic discourse from a genre-oriented perspective. The area covered by this volume is a central one, as in the last few years important developments in research on academic discourse have not only concerned the more traditional genres, but, as well, generic innovations promoted by the new technologies, employed both in the presentation of research results and in their dissemination to a wider community by means of popularising and teaching activities. These innovations have not only favoured important changes in existing genres and the creation of new ones to meet emerging needs of the academic community, but have also promoted a serious discussion about the construct of genre itself. The various investigations gathered in this volume provide several examples of the complexity and flexibility of genres, which have shown to be subject to a continuous tension between stability and change as well as between convention and innovation.Table of ContentsContents: Maurizio Gotti/Carol Berkenkotter/Vijay K. Bhatia: Introduction – Carol Berkenkotter: Genre Change in the Digital Age: Questions about Dynamism, Affordances, Evolution – Vijay K. Bhatia: Interdiscursivity in Academic Genres – Davide S. Giannoni: Value Marking in an Academic Genre: When Authors Signal ‘Goodness’ – Davide Mazzi: ‘Such a reaction would spread all over the cell like a forest fire’: A Corpus Study of Argument by Analogy in Scientific Discourse – Pilar Mur-Dueñas: Exploring Generic Integrity and Variation: Research Articles in Two English-medium International Applied Economics Journals – William Bromwich: Generic Integrity in Jurisprudence and Philosophy of Law: Metadiscursive Strategies for Expressing Dissent within the Constraints of Collegiality – Francisco Javier Fernández Polo: ‘The title of my paper is…’: Introducing the Topic in Conference Presentations – Sue Starfield/Brian Paltridge/Louise Ravelli: ‘Why do we have to write?’: Practice-based Theses in the Visual and Performing Arts and the Place of Writing – Masumi Ono: A Genre Analysis of Japanese and English Introductory Chapters of Literature Ph.D. Theses – Anna Stermieri: The Move Structure of Academic Theatre Reviews – Susan Kermas: The Dissemination of Scientific Knowledge in Academia – Isabel Herrando-Rodrigo: Blurred Genres: Hybrid Functions in the Medical Field – María José Luzón: Comments in Academic Blogs as a New Form of Scholarly Interaction – Olga Dontcheva-Navratilova: Cross-cultural Differences in the Construal of Authorial Voice in the Genre of Diploma Theses – Renata Povolná: Cross-cultural Differences in the Use of Discourse Markers by Czech and German Students of English in the Genre of Master’s Theses – Carmen Sancho-Guinda: Variation in Students’ Accounts of Graphic Data: Context and Cotext Factors in a Polytechnic Setting – Michela Giordano: K Case Briefs in American Law Schools: A Genre-based Analysis – Christoph A. Hafner/Lindsay Miller/Connie Ng Kwai-fun: Digital Video Projects in English for Academic Purposes: Students’ and Lecturers’ Perceptions and Issues Raised – Patrizia Anesa/Daniela Iovino: Interactive Whiteboards as Enhancers of Genre Hybridization in Academic Settings – Sara Gesuato: Representation of Events and Event Participants in Academic Course Descriptions.
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Peter Lang AG, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften Learner corpus profiles: The case of Romanian
Book SynopsisAiming at exemplifying the methodology of learner corpus profiling, this book describes salient features of Romanian Learner English. As a starting point, the volume offers a comprehensive presentation of the Romanian-English contrastive studies. Another innovative aspect of the book refers to the use of the first Romanian Corpus of Learner English, whose compilation is the object of a methodological discussion. In one of the main chapters, the book introduces the methodology of learner corpus profiling and compares it with existing approaches. The profiling approach is emphasised by corpus-based quantitative and qualitative investigations of Romanian Learner English. Part of the investigation is dedicated to the lexico-grammatical profiles of articles, prepositions and genitives. The frequency-based collocation analyses are integrated with error analyses and extended into error pattern samples. Furthermore, contrasting typical Romanian Learner English constructions with examples from the German and the Italian learner corpora opens the path to new contrastive interlanguage analyses.Table of ContentsContents: The first Romanian Corpus of Learner English – English as a Foreign Language in Romania – Lexico-grammatical profiles of the articles in RoCLE - Learner corpora in contrast – Simple prepositions: grammatical profiles – Contrastive analysis of the Genitive system in Romanian and English – The learner corpus profile.
£61.65
Peter Lang AG, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften Corpus Analysis for Descriptive and Pedagogical
Book SynopsisThere is hardly any aspect of verbal communication that has not been investigated using the analytical tools developed by corpus linguists. This is especially true in the case of English, which commands a vast international research community, and corpora are becoming increasingly specialised, as they account for areas of language use shaped by specific sociolectal (register, genre, variety) and speaker (gender, profession, status) variables. Corpus analysis is driven by a common interest in ‘linguistic evidence’, viewed as a source of insights into language phenomena or of lexical, semantic and contrastive data for subsequent applications. Among the latter, pedagogical settings are highly prominent, as corpora can be used to monitor classroom output, raise learner awareness and inform teaching materials. The eighteen chapters in this volume focus on contexts where English is employed by specialists in the professions or academia and debate some of the challenges arising from the complex relationship between linguistic theory, data-mining tools and statistical methods.Table of ContentsContents: Lynne Flowerdew: Which Unit for Linguistic Analysis of ESP Corpora of Written Text? – Marina Bondi: Integrating Corpus and Genre Approaches: Phraseology and Voice across EAP Genres – Winnie Cheng: Using Concgrams to Investigate Research Article Sections – Hilary Nesi: Corpus Query Techniques for Investigating Citation in Student Assignments – Carmen Perez-Llantada: Researching Genres with Multilingual Corpora: A Conceptual Enquiry – Shelley Staples/Douglas Biber: The Expression of Stance in Nurse-Patient Interactions: An ESP Perspective – Alan Partington: The Marking of Importance in ‘Enlightentainment’ Talks – Giuliana Garzone: Investigating Blawgs through Corpus Linguistics: Issues of Generic Integrity – Begoña Crespo: Women’s Authorial Voice: Discursive Practices in Scientific Prefaces – Isabel Moskowich/Leida Maria Monaco: Abstraction as a Means of Expressing Reality: Women Writing Science in Late Modern English – Roberta Facchinetti: Newsroom Jargon at the Crossroads of Corpus Linguistics and Lexicography – Rita Salvi: Exploring Political and Banking Language for Institutional Purposes – Jane H. Johnson: Family in the UK - Risks, Threats and Dangers: A Modern Diachronic Corpus-assisted Study across Two Genres – Averil Coxhead: Corpus Linguistics and Vocabulary Teaching: Perspectives from English for Specific Purposes – Cassi L. Liardét: A ‘Speedful Development’: Academic Literacy in Chinese Learners of English as a Foreign Language – Josef Schmied: Variation in Academic Writing: Complexity, Pronouns, Modals and Linking in South African MA Theses – Turo Hiltunen/Martti Mäkinen: Formulaic Language in Economics Papers: Comparing Novice and Published Writing – Gillian Mansfield: Hands On: Developing Language Awareness through Corpus Investigation.
£86.04
Peter Lang AG, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften Corpus-based studies on language varieties
Book SynopsisThis volume brings together a number of corpus-based studies dealing with language varieties. These contributions focus on contemporary lines of research interests, and include language teaching and learning, translation, domain-specific grammatical and textual phenomena, linguistic variation and gender, among others. Corpora used in these studies range from highly specialized texts, including earlier scientific texts, to regional varieties. Under the umbrella of corpus linguistics, scholars also apply other distinct methodological approaches to their data in order to offer new insights into old and new topics in linguistics and applied linguistics. Another important contribution of this book lies in the obvious didactic implications of the results obtained in the individual chapters for domain-based language teaching.Table of ContentsContents: Francisco Alonso Almeida/Laura Cruz García/Víctor González Ruiz: Introduction – Assunta Caruso/Antonietta Folino: Corpus-based knowledge representation in specialized domains – Pilar León Araúz/Arianne Reimerink: Multidimensional categorization in corpus-based hyponymic structures – Lejla Zejnilovic: Periphrastic expressions in English and Serbian legislative writing – María Luisa Carrió Pastor: A contrastive study of interactive metadiscourse in academic papers written in English and in Spanish – Karin Aijmer: Revisiting actually – actually in different positions in some national varieties of English – Silvia Soler Gallego: A corpus-based genre analysis of art museum audio descriptive guides – Caroline Rossi/Cécile Frérot/Achille Falaise: Integrating controlled corpus data in the classroom: a case-study of English NPs for French students in specialised translation – Geoffrey S. Koby: Developing a specialized corpus database for ATA translator certification examinations – Iria Bello Viruega: Reflections on our astronomical undertaking: nominalizations and possessive structures in the Coruña Corpus – Isabel Moskowich: When Sex talks. Evidence from the Coruña Corpus of English Scientific Writing.
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Peter Lang AG, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften Exploring Verbal Cues to Deception: Testing
Book SynopsisIn this research monograph, two empirical studies are presented, whose aim is to explore the linguistic cues to deception in written English and Spanish using computational tools like ALIAS WISER and LIWC. The tools have been tested on ground-truth data. After the automated text analysis, statistical classifiers are used to determine the best protocol for computational classification of true and false statements, and the role of emotional involvement is analyzed in low-stakes deception. The results demonstrate that, in our corpora, there is a real difference between "laboratory-produced" lies told in an experimental setting and high-stakes lies told in a police investigation. Table of ContentsTable of contents - abstract and keywords -list of abbreviations - Introduction - deception, its nature and its detection - contextualization and method - cross-linguistic experiment - intralingual experiment - final remarks, limitations of the study and further research
£23.75
Peter Lang AG, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften Economic terms in the news during the Great
Book SynopsisThis book explores the evolution of sentiment in economic terms in the press during financial crises applying a combination of sentiment analysis techniques and usage fluctuation analysis on a diachronic corpus derived from editorials in quality newspapers during the Great Recession. The book uncovers two key findings: first, certain economic terms become event words during times of crisis due to their increased use in the press and the general public, revealing rapid semantic changes in economic terms caused by major socio-economic events. Second, sentiment-laden collocations are found to be influenced by culture, highlighting language’s adaptability to financial upheavals. This work proposes an innovative methodology that combines lexicon-based Sentiment Analysis, Corpus Linguistics, and qualitative Discourse Analysis to shed light on how language shapes economic discourse, making it a valuable resource for scholars exploring the relationship between language and historic events.Table of ContentsIntroduction - Research design - The influence of the economy and the press on language - Evaluative language - Formal models for the study of evaluative language - Sentiment analysis - Language change and semantic prosody - Data analysis - Discussion and conclusions
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Verlag Peter Lang Diachronic Perspectives on Domain-specific
Book SynopsisThis volume reflects the results of a workshop on the investigation of specialized discourse in a diachronic perspective, held within the 15th European Symposium on Language for Special Purposes (New Trends in Specialized Discourse', Bergamo 2005). The articles deal with developments from the late medieval period to the present day, and the book encompasses studies in which the long-established tradition of domain-specific English is highlighted. The fields of contributions range from scientific to legal to political and business discourse. Special attention is given to argumentation, in an attempt to assess the time-depth of typical rhetorical strategies. Some methodological innovations are introduced in corpus linguistics. Numerous contributions bring new materials to scholarly discussion, as recently released or in-progress second-generation' corpora are used as data. Recent changes in present-day legal and scientific writing are also discussed as they witness fast adaptation to new requirements, due to the advent and growing familiarity of new technologies, international law and changes in academia.
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Verlag Peter Lang Intercultural Aspects of Specialized
Book SynopsisThis volume explores intercultural communication in specialist fields and its realisations in language for specific purposes. Special attention is given to legal, commercial, political and institutional discourse used in particular workplaces, analysed from an intercultural perspective. The contributions explore to what extent intercultural pressure leads to particular discourse patternings and lexico-grammatical / phonological realisations, and also the extent to which textual re-encoding and recontextualisation alter the pragmatic value of the texts taken into consideration.
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De Gruyter Functional Grammar in Prolog: An Integrated
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