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Springer Intonation Analysis Modelling and Technology 15 Text Speech and Language Technology
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Springer Advances in Probabilistic and Other Parsing Technologies 16 Text Speech and Language Technology
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Springer Where Mathematics Computer Science Linguistics and Biology Meet Essays in honour of Gheorghe Pun
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Springer Intonation Analysis Modelling and Technology 15 Text Speech and Language Technology
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Springer Word Frequency Distributions 18 Text Speech and Language Technology
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Springer Multilingual TextToSpeech Synthesis The Bell Labs Approach
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Springer Generalized LR Parsing
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Springer Compositional Translation 273 The Springer International Series in Engineering and Computer Science
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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
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Springer International Publishing AG Spatial Language Understanding
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Springer Nature Switzerland AG Bipolar Complex Fuzzy Sets
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De Gruyter Spoken Language Characterization
Book SynopsisThis handbook provides easy access to current practice and requirements in the main spoken language technologies.Table of ContentsFrontmatter -- Editorial preface to the paperback edition -- Editorial preface to the Handbook -- Main technical authors -- Contents -- List of Figures -- List of Tables -- 1. User's guide -- Part II: Spoken language characterisation -- 2. Spoken language lexica -- 3. Language models -- 4. Physical characterisation and description -- Bibliographical references -- Glossary -- List of abbreviations -- Index -- Backmatter
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De Gruyter Pragmatics and Corpus Linguistics: A Mutualistic Entente
Book SynopsisThe recent history of linguistics has witnessed the development of some disciplines that were conceived apart but benefited from common intuitions. One example of this phenomenon is the relationship established throughout time between pragmatics and corpus linguistics. Although their arrival heralded the application of two paradigms based on distant theoretical principles, they always showed an interest in their mutual advances and their practical reconciliation gave birth to an intellectual synergy that proved very fruitful. The present volume is an homage to the symbiosis of pragmatics and corpus linguistics and gathers the works of some of the scholars that have striven to create the liaison between them for a better understanding of language.
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De Gruyter Data Analytics in Cognitive Linguistics: Methods and Insights
Book Synopsis Contemporary data analytics involves extracting insights from data and translating them into action. With its turn towards empirical methods and convergent data sources, cognitive linguistics is a fertile context for data analytics. There are key differences between data analytics and statistical analysis as typically conceived. Though the former requires the latter, it emphasizes the role of domain-specific knowledge. Statistical analysis also tends to be associated with preconceived hypotheses and controlled data. Data analytics, on the other hand, can help explore unstructured datasets and inspire emergent questions. This volume addresses two key aspects in data analytics for cognitive linguistic work. Firstly, it elaborates the bottom-up guiding role of data analytics in the research trajectory, and how it helps to formulate and refine questions. Secondly, it shows how data analytics can suggest concrete courses of research-based action, which is crucial for cognitive linguistics to be truly applied. The papers in this volume impart various data analytic methods and report empirical studies across different areas of research and application. They aim to benefit new and experienced researchers alike.
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Springer-Verlag Berlin and Heidelberg GmbH & Co. KG The Logic of Categorial Grammars: A deductive account of natural language syntax and semantics
Book SynopsisThis book is intended for students in computer science, formal linguistics, mathematical logic and to colleagues interested in categorial grammars and their logical foundations. These lecture notes present categorial grammars as deductive systems, in the approach called parsing-as-deduction, and the book includes detailed proofs of their main properties. The papers are organized in topical sections on AB grammars, Lambek’s syntactic calculus, Lambek calculus and montague grammar, non-associative Lambek calculus, multimodal Lambek calculus, Lambek calculus, linear logic and proof nets and proof nets for the multimodal Lambek calculus.
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Springer-Verlag Berlin and Heidelberg GmbH & Co. KG Puzzles in Logic, Languages and Computation: The Red Book
Book SynopsisThis is the first volume of a unique collection that brings together the best English-language problems created for students competing in the Computational Linguistics Olympiad. These problems are representative of the diverse areas presented in the competition and designed with three principles in mind:· To challenge the student analytically, without requiring any explicit knowledge or experience in linguistics or computer science;· To expose the student to the different kinds of reasoning required when encountering a new phenomenon in a language, both as a theoretical topic and as an applied problem;· To foster the natural curiosity students have about the workings of their own language, as well as to introduce them to the beauty and structure of other languages;· To learn about the models and techniques used by computers to understand human language.Aside from being a fun intellectual challenge, the Olympiad mimics the skills used by researchers and scholars in the field of computational linguistics.In an increasingly global economy where businesses operate across borders and languages, having a strong pool of computational linguists is a competitive advantage, and an important component to both security and growth in the 21st century.This collection of problems is a wonderful general introduction to the field of linguistics through the analytic problem solving technique."A fantastic collection of problems for anyone who is curious about how human language works! These books take serious scientific questions and present them in a fun, accessible way. Readers exercise their logical thinking capabilities while learning about a wide range of human languages, linguistic phenomena, and computational models. " - Kevin Knight, USC Information Sciences Institute Trade ReviewFrom the reviews:“This book presents 56 problems, with solutions, created for high school students competing in a computational linguistics olympiad. … The interesting, elegant, and very diverse problems are fun to read and solve, and may be enjoyed not only by high school students, but also by current, future, or potential system thinkers, including programmers, analysts, or linguists.” (H. I. Kilov, Computing Reviews, April, 2014)Table of ContentsForeword by James Pustejovsky.- Preface.- Volume 1 Problems.- Volume 1. Solutions.- Index of Languages.- Index of Computational Topics.- Index of Other Topics.- About the Editor.
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Brill Tradition and Innovation in Biblical Interpretation: Studies Presented to Professor Eep Talstra on the Occasion of his Sixty-Fifth Birthday
Book SynopsisThe theme of this volume in honour of Eep Talstra is ‘Tradition and Innovation in Biblical Interpretation’, with an emphasis on the innovative role of computer-assisted textual analysis. It focusses on the role of tradition in biblical interpretation and of the innovations brought about by ICT in reconsidering existing interpretations of texts, grammatical concepts, and lexicographic practices. Questions addressed include: How does the role of exegesis as the ‘clarification of one’s own tradition, in order to understand choices and preferences’ (Talstra) relate to the critical role which Scripture has towards this tradition? How does the indebtedness to tradition of computer-driven philology relate to its innovative character? And how does computer-assisted analysis of the biblical texts lead to new research methods and results?Table of ContentsList of Contributors Preface Janet Dyk and Wido van Peursen 1. Tradition and Innovation in Biblical Scholarship: An Introduction Wido van Peursen and Janet Dyk PART ONE: TRADITION AND INNOVATION IN THE BIBLE ITSELF 2. A Story of Three Prophets: Synchronic and Diachronic Analysis of Jeremiah 26 Joep Dubbink 3. ‘Against you, Daughter of Babylon!’ A Remarkable Example of Text-Reception in the Oracle of Jeremiah 50–51 Eric Peels 4. ‘Reading Jeremiah Makes Me Angry!’ The Role of Jeremiah 32[39]:36–41 in Transformation within the ‘Jeremianic’ Tradition Janneke Stegeman 5. Beyond ‘Singers and Syntax’: Theological and Canonical Reflections on Psalm 8 Carl J. Bosma 6. Where is God? Romans 3:13–18 as an Addition to Psalm 14 Eveline van Staalduine–Sulman 7. Reading Qohelet as Text, Author, and Reader Timothy Walton 8. Tradition through Reading—Reading the Tradition: Reflections on Eep Talstra’s Exegetical Methodology Louis Jonker PART TWO: TRADITION AND INNOVATION IN THE RECEPTION OF THE BIBLE 9. Between Stigmatizing and Idolizing the Bible: On the Reception of Genesis 12:10–20; 20; 26:1–11 Cornelis Houtman 10. ‘Out of Egypt I Have Called My Son’: Matthew 2:15 and Hosea 11:1 in Dutch and American Evangelical Interpretation Gert Kwakkel 11. Daniel’s Four Kingdoms in the Syriac Tradition Wido van Peursen 12. The Identity of Israel’s God: The Potential of the So-called Extra-Calvinisticum Cornelis van der Kooi 13. A Jewish Childbirth Amulet from the Bibliotheca Rosenthaliana Margaretha Folmer PART THREE: TRADITION AND INNOVATION IN LINGUISTIC AND COMPUTATIONAL APPROACHES TO THE BIBLE 14. Computer-Assisted Tools for Textual Criticism Emanuel Tov 15. On Biblical Hebrew and Computer Science: Inspiration, Models, Tools, and Cross-Fertilization Ulrik Sandborg-Petersen 16. Persuasive Hebrew Exercises: The Wit of Technology-Enhanced Language Learning Nicolai Winther-Nielsen 17. Judging Jephthah: The Contribution of Syntactic Analysis to the Interpretation of Judges 11:29–40 Klaas Spronk 18. Masoretic Tradition and Syntactic Analysis of the Psalms Luis Vegas Montaner 19. Who is Speaking—Who is Listening? How Information Technology Can Confirm the Integrity of the Text Oliver Glanz 20. Jerusalem’s Comforters in Isaiah 40:1–2: Participant Tracking in a Prophetic Text Reinoud Oosting 21. Hebrew hāyāh: Etymology, Bleaching, and Discourse Structure Frank Polak 22. The Lexeme סָבִיב Christo H. J. van der Merwe 23. Language, Structure, and Strategy in Isaiah 53:1–6: אָכֵן , Word Order, and the Translator Lénart J. de Regt 24. אָבִי in Job 34:36 Constantijn J. Sikkel Dissertations under the Guidance of Eep Talstra Publications by Eep Talstra Index of Sources Index of Modern Authors
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Brill Methods in Latin Computational Linguistics
Book SynopsisIn Methods in Latin Computational Linguistics, Barbara McGillivray presents some of the most significant methodological foundations of the emerging field of Latin Computational Linguistics. The reader will find an overview of the computational resources and tools available for Latin and three corpus case studies covering morpho-syntactic and lexical-semantic aspects of Latin verb valency, as well as quantitative diachronic explorations of the argument realization of Latin prefixed verbs. The computational models and the multivariate data analysis techniques employed are explained with a detailed but accessible language. Barbara McGillivray convincingly shows the challenges and opportunities of combining computational methods and historical language data, and contributes to driving the technological change that is affecting Historical Linguistics and the Humanities.Trade Review"this book makes a unique contribution to the field, both by expanding existing Latin resources as well as encouraging greater interdisciplinary research among scholars from such disparate fields as historical linguistics and computer science." Onna Nelson, The Linguist List 25.3396,
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Brill Pragmatic Issues in Specialized Communicative Contexts
Book SynopsisPragmatic Issues in Specialized Communicative Contexts, edited by Francesca Bianchi and Sara Gesuato, illustrates how interactants systematically and effectively employ micro and macro linguistic resources and textual strategies to engage in communicative practices in such specific contexts as healthcare services, TV interpreting, film dialogue, TED talks, archaeology academic communication, student-teacher communication, and multilingual classrooms. Each contribution presents a pedagogical slant, reporting on or suggesting didactic approaches to, or applications of, pragmatic aspects of communication in SL, FL and LSP learning contexts. The topics covered and the issues addressed are all directly relevant to applied pragmatics, that is, pragmatically oriented linguistic analysis that accounts for interpersonal-transactional issues in real-life situated communication.Table of ContentsContent Introduction Part One: Handling multiple communicative goals in interpreting settings 1. Pragma-argumentative analysis of source texts in interpreter training. Switching on the light in the ‘pragmatic dark’ Emanuele Brambilla 2. Meanings and forms of intercultural coordination: the pragmatics of interpreter-mediated healthcare communication Federico Farini 3. The interpreter’s role in dialogue interpreting on television: A training method Eugenia Dal Fovo Part Two: Interactional strategies in scholarly contexts 4. The pragmatics of spoken academic discourse in the framework of TED talks: a case study Antonio Compagnone 5. Pedagogical implications of evaluation in academic domains: praise and criticism in archaeology book reviews Daniela Cesiri 6. Academic email requests: A pragmalinguistic and sociopragmatic comparison between faculty and students Phoenix Lam Part Three: Functional and phraseological patterns in scripted conversation 7. Teaching compliments and insults in the EFL classroom through film clips Silvia Bruti 8. The Cognitive and Sociopragmatic Interfaces of Intercultural Humor: Watching Roberto Benigni’s movies in Japan Chiara Zamborlin Part Four: Context-informed pedagogy in the classroom 9. Exploring textual pragmatic markers in a multilingual classroom context: insights for teaching pragmatics Sofía Martín-Laguna 10. Small Research Projects about Social and Regional Variation for Advanced University Students of English in Sweden: Their Purpose and Content Thorsten Schröter
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Brill Trends in E-Tools and Resources for Translators and Interpreters
Book SynopsisTrends in E-Tools and Resources for Translators and Interpreters offers a collection of contributions from key players in the field of translation and interpreting that accurately outline some of the most cutting-edge technologies in this field that are available or under development at the moment in both professional and academic contexts. Particularly, this volume provides a wide picture of the state of the art, looking not only at the world of technology for translators but also at the hitherto overlooked world of technology for interpreters. This volume is accessible and comprehensive enough to be of benefit to different categories of readers: scholars, professionals and trainees. Contributors are: Pierrette Bouillon, Gloria Corpas Pastor, Hernani Costa, Isabel Durán-Muñoz, Claudio Fantinuoli, Johanna Gerlach, Joanna Gough, Asheesh Gulati, Veronique Hoste, Amélie Josselin, David Lewis, Lieve Macken, John Moran, Aurelie Picton, Emmanuel Planas, Éric Poirier, Victoria Porro, Celia Rico Pérez, Christian Saam, Pilar Sánchez-Gijón, Míriam Seghiri Domínguez, Violeta Seretan, Arda Tezcan, Olga Torres, and Anna Zaretskaya.Trade Review“[T]his book makes a valuable contribution to the field of technology implementation in T&I contexts as it sufficiently documents recent technological advances that address practitioners’ needs, and brings forward ingenious proposals for university teaching with usage of e-tools and resources. It also injects new vigour to research by suggesting new directions, by introducing inventive applications and taxonomies and by calling for studies of different natures and the use of modern experimental techniques.” -Maggie Hui, The Hong Kong Polytechnic University, in The Journal of Specialised Translation, Iss. 31 (2019) pp. 229-231Table of ContentsForeword Acknowledgements List of Illustrations Introduction Gloria Corpas Pastor and Isabel Durán-Muñoz Part 1: Electronic Tools for Translators 1 Investigating the Use of Resources in the Translation Process Joanna Gough 2 User Perspective on Translation Tools: Findings of a User Survey Anna Zaretskaya, Gloria Corpas Pastor and Míriam Seghiri 3 Assessing Terminology Management Systems for Interpreters Hernani Costa, Gloria Corpas Pastor and Isabel Durán-Muñoz 4 Human Translation Technologies and Natural Language Processing Applications in Meaning-based Translation Learning Activities Éric Poirier Part 2: cat and cai Tools 5 Monitoring the Use of newly Integrated Resources into cat Tools: A Prototype Aurélie Picton, Emmanuel Planas and Amélie Josselin-Leray 6 Can User Activity Data in cat Tools help us measure and improve Translator Productivity? John Moran, David Lewis and Christian Saam 7 Computer-assisted Interpreting: Challenges and Future Perspectives Claudio Fantinuoli Part 3: Machine Translation 8 The ACCEPT Academic Portal: A Pre-editing and Post-editing Teaching Platform Pierrette Bouillon, Johanna Gerlach, Asheesh Gulati, Victoria Porro and Violeta Seretan 9 The Challenge of Machine Translation Post-editing: An Academic Perspective Celia Rico Pérez, Pilar Sánchez-Gijón and Olga Torres-Hostench 10 scate Taxonomy and Corpus of Machine Translation Errors Arda Tezcan, Veronique Hoste and Lieve Macken Appendix 1
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Brill Corpora and Lexis
Book SynopsisThe contributions in this volume provide a kaleidoscope of state-of-the-art research in corpus linguistics on lexis and lexicogrammar. Central issues are the presentation of major corpus resources (both corpora and software tools), the findings (especially about frequency) which are simply not accessible without such resources, their theoretical implications relating to both lexical units and word meanings, and the practical – especially pedagogical – applications of corpus findings. This is complemented by a lexicographer’s view on the data structures implicit in the Oxford English Dictionary (OED). The volume, which has sprung from the 36th ICAME conference, held in at Trier University in May 2015, will be of relevance for theoretical and applied linguists interested in corpora, word usage, and the mental lexicon.Trade Review“In conclusion, corpus linguists can look forward to reading this fine selection of a top quality papers first presented at the 36th ICAME conference in Trier. Indeed, the volume provides more than the results of a few fascinating individual case studies using a range of corpus resources and state-of-the-art tools: it also explores methodological issues and proposes new procedures and measures. Moreover, Corpora and Lexis also contributes to the refinement and development of (new) theoretical concepts and features novel applications of corpus-based findings in lexicographic and pedagogical applications.” ~ Elen Le Foll, Universität Osnabrück, on LINGUIST List (July 2019)Table of ContentsList of Figures and Tables Notes on Contributors Introduction Sebastian Hoffmann, Andrea Sand, Sabine Arndt-Lappe and Lisa Marie Dillmann 1 Modelling Lexical Structures in the Oxford English Dictionary Edmund Weiner 2 Investigating the Circumstances of Coinage Antoinette Renouf 3 Synonym Selection as a Strategy of Stress Clash Avoidance Julia Schlüter and Gabriele Knappe 4 Intensification with Very, Really and So in Selected Varieties of English Karin Aijmer 5 The Pragmatics of Well as a Discourse Marker in Broadcast Discussions John M. Kirk 6 Between Lexis and Discourse: A Cross-Register Study of Connectors of Contrast Maïté Dupont 7 Towards a Model of Co-Collocation Analysis: Theory, Methodology, and Preliminary Results Moisés Almela and Pascual Cantos 8 The Lexicogrammar of Be Interested: Description and Pedagogy Costas Gabrielatos 9 Tracking L2 Writers’ Phraseological Development Using Collgrams: Evidence from a Longitudinal EFL Corpus Yves Bestgen and Sylviane Granger
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Brill From Data to Evidence in English Language Research
Book SynopsisFrom Data to Evidence in English Language Research offers new insights into the ways in which developments in linguistic corpora and other digital data sources can be used to extend and re-evaluate research questions in English linguistics.Table of ContentsPreface Editors Notes on Contributors 1 Corpus Linguistics as Digital Scholarship: Big Data, Rich Data and Uncharted Data Terttu Nevalainen, Carla Suhr and Irma Taavitsainen Part 1: Evidence from “Big Data” 2 Big Data: Opportunities and Challenges for English Corpus Linguistics Antoinette Renouf 3 Corpus-based Studies of Lexical and Semantic Variation: The Importance of Both Corpus Size and Corpus Design Mark Davies 4 Empirically Charting the Success of Prescriptivism: Some Case Studies of Nineteenth-century English Lieselotte Anderwald 5 Warn Against -ing: Exceptions to Bach’s Generalization in Four Varieties of English Mark Kaunisto and Juhani Rudanko Part 2: Evidence from “Rich Data”? 6 Commonplace Books: Charting and Enriching Complex Data Thomas Kohnen 7 Mining Big Data: A Philologist’s Perspective Tanja Rütten 8 Function-to-form Mapping in Corpora: Historical Corpus Pragmatics and the Study of Stance Expressions Daniela Landert 9 Scholastic Argumentation in Early English Medical Writing and Its Afterlife: New Corpus Evidence Irma Taavitsainen and Gerold Schneider Part 3: Evidence from Uncharted Data and Rethinking Old Data? 10 Language Surrounding Poverty in Early Modern England: A Corpus-based Investigation of How People Living in the Seventeenth-century Perceived the Criminalised Poor Tony McEnery and Helen Baker 11 An Information-Theoretic Approach to Modeling Diachronic Change in Scientific English Stefania Degaetano-Ortlieb, Hannah Kermes, Ashraf Khamis and Elke Teich 12 Academic Vocabulary in Wikipedia Articles: Frequency and Dispersion in Uneven Datasets Turo Hiltunen and Jukka Tyrkkö 13 Words (don’t come easy): The Automatic Retrieval and Analysis of Popular Song Lyrics David Brett and Antonio Pinna 14 Charting New Sources of elf Data: A Multi-genre Corpus Approach Mikko Laitinen, Magnus Levin and Alexander Lakaw Indexe
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Brill Spelling and Writing Words: Theoretical and Methodological Advances
Book SynopsisSpelling and Writing Words: Theoretical and Methodological Advances provides a set of contributions about how individuals write words. Understanding word production is of major importance as it allows understanding how words -the basic elements of written language- are stored in the writers’ brain and how do writers select the spelling of a word. < The theoretical chapters address hot topics in the field such as the role of phonology in writing, bilingualism, language disorders, orthographic acquisition, and the influence of handwriting on reading. The methodological chapters address individual differences, how to measure handwriting performance in different handwriting styles, and neuroscientific approaches. The concluding chapters explore the future of written word production research.
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Brill Language and Chronology: Text Dating by Machine Learning
Book SynopsisIn Language and Chronology, Toner and Han apply innovative Machine Learning techniques to the problem of the dating of literary texts. Many ancient and medieval literatures lack reliable chronologies which could aid scholars in locating texts in their historical context. The new machine-learning method presented here uses chronological information gleaned from annalistic records to date a wide range of texts. The method is also applied to multi-layered texts to aid the identification of different chronological strata within single copies. While the algorithm is here applied to medieval Irish material of the period c.700-c.1700, it can be extended to written texts in any language or alphabet. The authors’ approach presents a step change in Digital Humanities, moving us beyond simple querying of electronic texts towards the production of a sophisticated tool for literary and historical studies.Table of ContentsContents List of Illustrations Abbreviations Introduction 0.1 Automated Dating Methods 0.1 How to Read This Book 1 Dating Texts: Principles and Methods 1.1 Introduction 1.2 Texts by Known Authors 1.3 Internal Evidence 1.4 Manuscripts 1.5 Intertextuality 1.6 Metrics 1.7 Linguistic Dating 1.8 Conclusion 2 Computational Approaches to Text Dating 2.1 A Brief History 2.2 The Problem Stated 2.3 Previous Solutions 2.4 New Solutions 2.5 Datability 2.6 Conclusion 3 Trials in English and Medieval Irish Texts 3.1 Dating English Texts 3.2 Dating Medieval Irish Texts 3.3 Implementation 3.4 Temporal Parameters 3.5 Datability 3.6 Conclusion 4 Dating Long Documents 4.0 Introduction 4.1 Building a Datable Medieval Irish Corpus 4.2 Dating Long Documents 4.3 Establishing the Date of Composition 4.4 Transmission and Manuscript Dates 4.5 Focussed Dating Predictions 4.6 Periodization 4.7 Stratification 4.8 Conclusion Conclusion 5.1 A Temporal Model 5.2 Towards a Tool: Computational Chronometrics 5.3 Applicability to Other Literatures Appendix A: Conventional Dating of Texts Used in This Study A.1 Texts Appendix B: Machine Learning B.1 Classification, Regression and Clustering B.2 Other Relevant Statistics Bibliography Index
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Brill Ten Lectures on Corpus Linguistics with R: Applications for Usage-Based and Psycholinguistic Research
Book SynopsisIn this book, Stefan Th. Gries provides an overview on how quantitative corpus methods can provide insights to cognitive/usage-based linguistics and selected psycholinguistic questions. Topics include the corpus linguistics in general, its most important methodological tools, its statistical nature, and the relation of all these topics to past and current usage-based theorizing. Central notions discussed in detail include frequency, dispersion, context, and others in a variety of applications and case studies; four practice sessions offer short introductions of how to compute various corpus statistics with the open source programming language and environment R.Table of ContentsNote on Supplementary Material Preface by the Series Editor Preface by the Author About the Author 1 Corpus Linguistics: the (Methods of the) Field and Its Relation to Cognitive Linguistics 2 On—and/or against—Frequencies 3 Frequency: Practice with R 4 On Recency and Dispersion 5 Dispersion: Practice with R 6 On Association 7 Association: Practice with R 8 On Context 9 Concordance, Surprisal, Entropy: Practice with R 10 Corpus-Linguistic Applications in Cognitive/Usage-Based Explorations of Learner Language References About the Series Editor Websites for Cognitive Linguistics and CIFCL Speakers
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Brill The Diachrony of Definiteness in North Germanic
Book SynopsisThis book is an account of the rise of definite and indefinite articles in Danish, Swedish and Icelandic, as documented in a choice of extant texts from 1200-1550. These three North Germanic languages show different development patterns in the rise of articles, despite the common origin, but each reveals interdependencies between the two processes. The matter is approached from both a quantitative and a qualitative perspective. The statistical analysis provides an improved overview on article grammaticalization, focusing on the factors at the basis of such process. The in-depth qualitative analysis of longer text passages places the crucial stage of the definite article grammaticalization with the so-called indirect anaphoric reference.
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Brill English Corpora under Japanese Eyes
Book SynopsisEnglish Corpora under Japanese Eyes is a fine collection of papers written in commemoration of the 10th anniversary of the Japan Association of English Corpus Studies (JAECS). Beginning with the overview of the field by Stig Johansson, an honorary member of the JAECS, the present volume shows the state-of-art in English corpus studies in Japan and demonstrates the creative uses of corpora in a wide range of research topics from studies drawing on large-scale general corpora, such as British National Corpus and the Bank of English, to studies based on more specific, historical, literary, learner and parallel corpora. The papers incorporated in this anthology are grouped into five sections: 1) Overview of corpus-based studies, 2) Corpus-based studies of contemporary English, 3) Historical and diachronic studies of English, 4) Corpus-based studies in English literature, 5) Corpus and English language teaching. This volume will inspire still further corpus exploitation in the broader field of the humanities.Table of ContentsMitsunori IMAI: Foreword Junsaku NAKAMURA, Nagayuki INOUE and Tomoji TABATA: Preface I. Overview of Corpus-Based Studies Stig JOHANSSON: Corpus Linguistics – past, present, future: A view from Oslo II. Corpus-Based Studies in Contemporary English Mitsumi UCHIDA and Tomohiro YANAGI: What is to be done about it? A Parallel Corpus Study of ‘Copula and Infinitive’ Constructions in English and French Mayumi NISHIBU: Definite Notional Subject in Existential There Constructions: A Quantitative Study Makoto SHIMIZU and Masaki MURATA: Patterns with Transitive Verb and Reflexive in English and their Counterparts in Japanese: A Bilingual Pattern Grammar Approach Makimi KIMURA: Magnate and Tycoon: A Case of Rivalry between Existing Vocabulary and Newer Loanwords as Seen in OED2 and BNC Satoko TAKAMI: A Corpus-Driven Identification of Distinctive Words: ‘Tabloid Adjectives’ and ‘Broadsheet Adjectives’ in the Bank of English III. Historical and Diachronic Studies of English Yoshiyuki NAKAO, Akiyuki JIMURA, and Masatsugu MATSUO: A Project for a Comprehensive Collation of the Hengwrt and Ellesmere Manuscripts of The Canterbury Tales: The General Prologue Ohkado MASAYUKI: On Verb Movement in Old English Subordinate Clauses Satoru TSUKAMOTO: Syntactic Chronology: Dating Text in the History of English IV. Corpus-Based Studies in English Literature Shin’ichiro ISHIKAWA: A Corpus-Based Approach to Basic Colour Terms in the Novels of D.H. Lawrence V. Corpus and English Language Taching Tomoko KANEKO: The Use of Past Tense Forms by Japanese Learners of English Kiyomi CHUJO: Measuring Vocabulary Levels of English Textbooks and Tests Using a BNC Lemmatised High Frequency Word List.
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Brill Corpus Linguistics and the Web
Book SynopsisUsing the Web as Corpus is one of the recent challenges for corpus linguistics. This volume presents a current state-of-the-arts discussion of the topic. The articles address practical problems such as suitable linguistic search tools for accessing the www, the question of register variation, or they probe into methods for culling data from the web. The book also offers a wide range of case studies, covering morphology, syntax, lexis, as well as synchronic and diachronic variation in English. These case studies make use of the two approaches to the www in corpus linguistics – web-as-corpus and web-for-corpus-building. The case studies demonstrate that web data can provide useful additional evidence for a broad range of research questions.Trade Review"In this volume many of the major issues in using the web for linguistic research are discussed and clarified … This very timely volume gives a good overview of a fast-growing field." – in: Journal of Corpus Linguistics 13/4 (2008) "Corpus linguistics and the web makes up a valuable contribution to corpus linguistics in the fourth age. With its general approach to both potentials and problems in web linguistics, it fills an important gap in the description of an auspicious research methodology which is zooming rapidly into the twenty-first century with a fair share of growing pains. … it offers a wealth of insight into common approaches to web-based language study, with its strength lying in the manifold treatment of web methodology, often in conjunction with traditional corpus methods, and in its variety of interesting research results, either in a WaC or WfC framework. … this publication constitutes another important step in the establishment of web linguistics as the currently most rewarding approach in corpus linguistics." – in: ICAME Journal 32 (April 2008)Table of ContentsMarianne HUNDT, Nadja NESSELHAUF and Carolin BIEWER: Corpus linguistics and the web Accessing the web as corpus Anke LÜDELING, Stefan EVERT and Marco BARONI: Using web data for linguistic purposes William H. FLETCHER: Concordancing the web: promise and problems, tools and techniques Antoinette RENOUF, Andrew KEHOE and Jayeeta BANERJEE: WebCorp: an integrated system for web text search Compiling corpora from the internet Sebastian HOFFMANN: From webpage to mega-corpus: the CNN transcripts Claudia CLARIDGE: Constructing a corpus from the web: message boards Douglas BIBER and Jerry KURJIAN: Towards a taxonomy of web registers and text types: a multidimensional analysis Critical voices Geoffrey LEECH: New resources, or just better old ones? The Holy Grail of representativeness Graeme KENNEDY: An under-exploited resource: using the BNC for exploring the nature of language learning Language variation and change Anette ROSENBACH: Exploring constructions on the web: a case study Günter ROHDENBURG: Determinants of grammatical variation in English and the formation / confirmation of linguistic hypotheses by means of internet data Britta MONDORF: Recalcitrant problems of comparative alternation and new insights emerging from internet data Christian MAIR: Change and variation in present-day English: integrating the analysis of closed corpora and web-based monitoring Marianne HUNDT and Carolin BIEWER: The dynamics of inner and outer circle varieties in the South Pacific and East Asia Lieselotte ANDERWALD: ‘He rung the bell’ and ‘she drunk ale’ – non-standard past tense forms in traditional British dialects and on the internet Nadja NESSELHAUF: Diachronic analysis with the internet? Will and shall in ARCHER and in a corpus of e-texts from the web
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Brill Corpus Linguistics Beyond the Word: Corpus Research from Phrase to Discourse
Book SynopsisThis volume will be of particular interest to readers interested in expanding the applications of corpus linguistics techniques through new tools and approaches. The text includes selected papers from the Fifth North American Symposium, hosted by the Linguistics Department at Montclair State University in Montclair New Jersey in May 2004. The symposium papers represented several areas of corpus studies including language development, syntactic analysis, pragmatics and discourse, language change, register variation, corpus creation and annotation, and practical applications of corpus work, primarily in language teaching, but also in medical training and machine translation. A common thread through most of the papers was the use of corpora to study domains longer than the word. Not surprisingly, fully half of the papers deal with the computational tools and linguistic strategies needed to search for and analyze these longer spans of language while most of the remaining papers examine particular syntactic and rhetorical properties of one or more corpora.Trade Review”[This book is] demonstrating a maturity in corpus linguistics which is welcome to note … this is a well-chosen collection of papers, demonstrating the potential of corpus linguistics for contributing towards phrasal and discourse analysis. It is hoped that Corpus Linguistics beyond the Word will inspire more corpus-based researchers to think beyond the lexicon.” in: ICAME Journal 32, April 2008Table of ContentsPreface Analysis Tools and Corpus Annotation Leslie BARRETT, David F. GREENBERG, and Mark SCHWARZ: A Syntactic Feature Counting Method for Selecting Machine Translation Training Corpora Angus B. GRIEVE-SMITH: The Envelope of Variation in Multidimensional Register and Genre Analyses Paul DEANE and Derrick HIGGINS: Using Singular-Value Decomposition on Local Word Contexts to Derive a Measure of Constructional Similarity Sebastian VAN DELDEN: Problematic Syntactic Patterns Mark DAVIES: Towards a Comprehensive Survey of Register-based Variation in Spanish Syntax Gregory GARRETSON and Mary Catherine O’CONNOR: Between the Humanist and the Modernist: Semi-automated Analysis of Linguistic Corpora Carson MAYNARD and Sheryl LEICHER: Pragmatic Annotation of an Academic Spoken Corpus for Pedagogical Purposes María José García VIZCAÍNO: Using Oral Corpora in Contrastive Studies of Linguistic Politeness Corpus Applications: Pedagogy and Linguistic Analysis Boyd DAVIS and Lisa RUSSELL-PINSON: One Corpus, Two Contexts: Intersections of Content-Area Teacher Training and Medical Education Margrit V. ZINGGELER: “GRIMMATIK:” German Grammar through the Magic of the Brothers Grimm Fairytales and the Online Grimm Corpus Pieter DE HAAN and Kees VAN ESCH: Assessing the Development of Foreign Language Writing Skills: Syntactic and Lexical Features JoAnne NEFF, Francisco BALLESTEROS, Emma DAFOUZ, Francisco MARTÍNEZ, Juan-Pedro RICA, Mercedes DÍEZ and Rosa PRIETO: A Contrastive Functional Analysis of Errors in Spanish EFL University Writers’ Argumentative Texts: a Corpus-based Study Wasima SHEHZAD: How to End an Introduction in a Computer Science Article? A Corpus-based Approach Alexander MURZAKU: Does Albanian have a Third Person Personal Pronoun? Let’s have a Look at the Corpus… Christine JOHANSSON: The Use of Relativizers across Speaker Roles and Gender: Explorations in 19th-century Trials, Drama and Letters
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Brill Corpus Linguistics 25 Years on
Book SynopsisThis volume offers a state-of-the-art picture of work undertaken in the field of computer-aided corpus linguistics. While the focus is on English, central insights can be generalised to other languages, as well. As a work intended to mark the Silver Jubilee of ICAME, the International Computer Archive of Modern and Medieval English, the book combines surveys of the discipline by some of its major pioneers, including founders of ICAME itself, with cutting-edge work by younger scholars. It is divided into three sections: “Overviewing years of corpus linguistic studies”, “Descriptive studies in English syntax and semantics”, and “Second Language Acquisition, parallel corpora and specialist corpora”. The book bears witness to the impressive advances that have characterised the development of corpus linguistics over the past few decades – from terminological issues to practical applications, from theoretical and descriptive research to applied approaches, from monolingual to multilingual and specialist corpora, from corpus design to corpus exploitation tools.Trade Review”gives an excellent outline of the state of the art in English corpus linguistics… presents readers with a wealth of possible applications and uses of English computer corpora in the field of synchronic corpus linguistics…. It clearly shows what kinds of research results can be achieved by making use of corpus linguistic methods and it also outlines what insights can be gained from the study of the English language through the help of corpora. This volume also opens up many issues and research questions for the coming years.” in: ICAME Journal 32, April 2008Table of ContentsRoberta FACCHINETTI: Introduction 1. Overviewing 25 years of corpus linguistic studies Jan SVARTVIK: Corpus linguistics 25+ years on Antoinette RENOUF: Corpus development 25 years on: from super-corpus to cyber-corpus Stig JOHANSSON: Seeing through multilingual corpora Anne WICHMANN: Corpora and spoken discourse 2. Descriptive studies in English syntax and semantics Michael STUBBS: An example of frequent English phraseology: distributions, structures and functions Ylva BERGLUND and Christopher WILLIAMS: The semantic properties of going to: distribution patterns in four subcorpora of the British National Corpus Claudia CLARIDGE: The superlative in spoken English Mark DAVIES: Semantically-based queries with a joint BNC/WordNet database Solveig GRANATH: Size matters – or thus can meaningful structures be revealed in large corpora Rolf KREYER: Inversion in modern written English: syntactic complexity, information status and the creative writer David C. MINUGH: The filling in the sandwich: internal modification of idioms Liesbeth De SMEDT, Lieselotte BREMS and Kristin DAVIDSE: NP-internal functions and extended uses of the ‘type’ nouns kind, sort, and type: towards a comprehensive, corpus-based description 3. Second Language Acquisition, parallel corpora and specialist corpora Francesca BIANCHI and Roberto PAZZAGLIA: Student writing of research articles in a foreign language: metacognition and corpora Ron COWAN and Michael LEESER: The structure of corpora in SLA research Nadja NESSELHAUF: The path from learner corpus analysis to language pedagogy: some neglected issues Josef SCHMIED: Exploiting the Corpus of East-African English Makoto SHIMIZU and Masaki MURATA: Transitive verb plus reflexive pronoun/personal pronoun patterns in English and Japanese: using a Japanese-English parallel corpus Cristiano FURIASSI and Knut HOFLAND: The retrieval of false anglicisms in newspaper texts Kerstin LINDMARK, Johan NATT OCH DAG, Caroline WILLNERS: Lexical semantics for software requirements engineering – a corpus-based approach
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Brill Language, People, Numbers: Corpus Linguistics and Society
Book SynopsisThe Contributors to this volume offer a broad range of novel insights about data-based or data-driven approaches to the study of both structure and function of language, reflecting the increasing shift towards corpus-based methods of analysis in a wide range of areas in linguistics. Corpora can be used as models of human linguistic experience, and the contributors demonstrate that there is ample scope for integrating such models into the descriptions of discourse, grammar and meaning. Continually improving technological development facilitates the design of larger and more comprehensive corpora documenting language use in a multitude of genres, styles and modes, even starting to include visual aspects. Software to investigate these data also becomes increasingly powerful and more refined. The sixteen original articles in this volume cover substantial ground on both the theoretical as well as applied levels. Having such data and software resources at their disposal, the contributing researchers rethink the long discussed interplay between language system and use from various angles, considering socio-cultural and cognitive involvement and representation, with synchronic as well as diachronic perspectives in view. These theories and quantitative / qualitative methods are applied to a range of topics from language acquisition and teaching to literature and politics. All of the authors in this volume reveal the profound and leading impact that Mike Stubb’s work has continued to contribute to the field of corpus-based description of language structure, use and function.Table of ContentsOliver MASON and Andrea GERBIG: Introduction Contributing authors Michael W. Stubbs – a select bibliography Susan HUNSTON: Michael Stubbs: a theoretician of applied linguistics John SINCLAIR: Borrowed ideas Robert de BEAUGRANDE: How ‘systemic’ is a large corpus of English Wolfgang TEUBERT: Some notes on the concept of cognitive linguistics Michael BYRAM: Developing language education policy in Europe – and searching for theory Wolfgang KÜHLWEIN: The semiotic patterning of Cædmon’s Hymn as a ‘hypersign’ David A. REIBEL: Traditional grammar and corpus linguistics ‘with critical notes’ Andrea GERBIG: Travelogues in time and space: a diachronic and intercultural genre study Naomi HALLAN: An extended view of extended lexical units: tracking development and use Bettina STARCKE: I don’t know- differences in patterns of collocation and semantic prosody in phrases of different lengths Hans LINDQUIST: Stubbing your toe against a hard mass of facts: corpus data and the phraseology of STUB and TOE Oliver MASON: Stringing together a sentence: linearity and the lexis-syntax interface Wolfram BUBLITZ: ‘Sailing the islands or watching from te dock’: the treachererous simplicity of a metaphor: How we handle ‘new (electronic) hypertext’ versus ‘old (printed) text’ Ronald CARTER: and Svenja ADOLPHS: Linking the verbal and visual: new directions for corpus linguistics Henry G. WIDDOWSON: The novel features of text. Corpus analysis and stylistics Guy COOK: Hocus pocus or God’s truth: The dual indentity of Michael Stubbs
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Springer-Verlag GmbH Computational Linguistics and Natural Language Processing
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Springer Literature Language and Computing
Book SynopsisPart 1. Quantitative methods in literary studies.- Chapter 1. Jorge Luis Borges' poetry periodisation: a quantitative approach.- Chapter 2. Corpus of the Russian Short Stories (1900 1930). Validity of Lingvo-Stastistical Parameters.- Chapter 3. Sentiment Analysis in Literary Texts: A Study of Theme and Reader Preferences in Russian Short Stories from 1900-1930s.- Chapter 4. Over the Rainbow: Colour Terms in Russian Literature of the Early 20th Century.- Chapter 5. Russian-language Electronic Fanfiction Database: Creation Principles and Quantitative Metadata Analysis.- Part 2. Quantitative methods in language studies.- Chapter 6. History of Russia in the XVII-XVIII Centuries in the Texts of School Textbooks of Different Years through the Prism of Sentiment and Topic Modeling Analysis.- Chapter 7. Disambiguation of Russian Homographs with Transformers.- Chapter 8. Idioms Database: Evidence from 19th Century Russian Texts.- Chapter 9. Possessor Doubling Strategies in Modern Vernacular Russian as Represented in the One Speech Day Oral Corpus.- Part 3. Spoken corpora: phonetics studies.- Chapter 10. Formant trajectories in different languages.- Chapter 11. Russian Backchannel Vocalizations: Approaches to Description.- Chapter 12. Phonetic Realisation of the High Rising Terminal in English Dialects (a case of Belfast and Newcastle dialects).- Chapter 13. Unveiling the Power of Hesitation: Exploring Vocalizations in the Speech of Introverts and Extroverts.- Part 4. Communicative interfaces.- Chapter 14. This robot smiles so nicely. I don't trust him the Effect of Robot's Smiles on User's Trust.- Chapter 15. The Botik of Peter the Great: Creating a Virtual Assistant for the Applicants of St Petersburg State University.- Chapter 16. Creating the mined QA corpus in Russian based on Oral History Archives.- Part 5. Corpora in teaching and translation.- Chapter 17. Contrastive analysis to identify cross-linguistic correspondences for translation purposes.- Chapter 18. Semantically Bleached Words of Everyday Russian Speech: The Problem of Translation into Other Languages (a Pilot Study Based on the Material of the Buryat Language).- Chapter 19. Evaluating the history of liturgical culture: a multilingual comparable corpus and a new look at familiar things.- Chapter 20. Transformations of Precedent Phenomena in the Polycode Internet Meme (Based on the Cats and Fishes Meme).
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Edinburgh University Press Essential Programming for Linguistics
Book SynopsisThis book is an introduction to programming for linguists.Table of Contents1 Introduction; 1.1 Why Use Perl?; 1.2 The Command Prompt/Console; 1.3 How to Navigate a File System; 1.3.1 Understanding File System Hierarchies; 1.3.2 Navigating Through File Systems; 1.4 Plain Text Editors; 1.5 Installing Perl and Perl/Tk on Your Computer; 1.5.1 Installing Perl; 1.5.2 Installing the Perl/Tk Toolkit; 2 Basic Programming Concepts - 1; 2.1 How to Issue Instructions (Statements); 2.2 How to Store Data in Memory (Variables); 2.3 What to Store & How (Basic Data Types); 2.3.1 Scalars; 2.3.2 Arrays; 2.3.3 Hashes; 2.4 Understanding About Defaults (Special Variables); 2.5 Making Your Code More Intelligible (Comments); 3 Basic Programming Concepts - 2; 3.1 Making Decisions (Flow Control); 3.2 Doing Repetitive Tasks Automatically (Basic for Loops); 3.2.1 The for Loop; 3.2.2 Iterating over Array Elements; 3.2.3 The foreach Loop; 3.3 More Repetitiveness (Further Loops); 3.3.1 The while loop; 3.3.2 The until Loop; 3.3.3 Controlling Loops Further; 4 Working with Text (Basic String Handling); 4.1 Chomping & Chopping; 4.2 Extracting a Substring from a Longer String; 4.3 'Adding' Strings Together; 4.4 Establishing the Length of a String; 4.5 Handling Case; 5 Working with Stored Data (Basic File Handling); 5.1 Opening a Filehandle; 5.2 Tweaking Your Input and/or Output Options; 5.3 Reading from a Filehandle; 5.3.1 File Processing in List Context; 5.3.2 File Processing in Line Context; 5.3.3 Slurping in Scalar Context; 5.4 Default Filehandles; 5.5 Writing to a Filehandle; 5.6 Working with Directories; 6 Identifying Textual Patterns (Basic & Extended Regular Expressions); 6.1 Matching; 6.2 Character Classes; 6.3 Quantification; 6.4 Grouping, Alternation & Anchoring; 6.5 Memorising; 6.6 Modifiers; 6.7 Extended Regular Expressions;7 Modifying Textual Patterns (Substitution & Transliteration); 7.1 Substitution; 7.2 Greediness; 7.3 A Very Brief Introduction to Markup Languages (SGML, HTML & XML); 7.4 Transliteration; 8 Getting Things Into the Right Order (Basic Sorting); 8.1 Keys & Sort Order; 8.2 'Vocabulary Handling' (Creating Simple Word Lists); 9 Elementary Texts Stats (Creating Basic Frequency Lists); 9.1 Complex Sorting; 9.2 Word Frequency Lists; 9.3 Implementing a List; 9.4 Sorting & Printing the List; 10 More Repetitiveness or How to Tie Things Together (Introducing Modularity); 10.1 Functions & Subroutines; 10.1.1 Creating Your Own Subroutines; 10.1.2 Calling a Subroutine; 10.1.3 Localising Variables & Being Strict With Yourself; 10.2 References & Modules; 10.2.1 Basic Named References; 10.2.2 Anonymous References; 10.2.3 What Do Modules Look Like?; 10.2.4 Importing & Using Modules; 10.2.5 Writing a Simplistic HTML Page Downloader and Parser; 11 Objects; 11.1 OO Concepts; 11.2 Creating an Object in Perl; 11.3 Creating a Regular Verb Object; 11.4 Instantiating the Verb Object; 11.5 Creating Appropriate Accessor Methods; 12 Getting Graphical (Simple User Interfaces); 12.1 Elements of a GUI; 12.2 Basic Steps in Creating Tk Programs; 12.3 Adding Widgets; 12.4 The GUI Concordancer - An Advanced Example; 12.4.1 Adding a Menu Bar & the Remaining GUI Elements; 12.4.2 Programming the Functionality; 12.4.3 Handling the Text Widget; 13 Conclusion; Appendix A - Sample Solutions; Appendix B - How to Get Further Help on Perl; References
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Bloomsbury Publishing PLC The Bloomsbury Handbook of Language Learning and
Book SynopsisThis handbook draws together international perspectives on technology and its application to language teaching and learning, written and edited by leading scholars in the field. It meets the increasing demand for pedagogically-informed online language instruction, which is particularly important in the context of the effects that the Covid-19 pandemic has had on the education sector on a global scale, as well as exploring language learning in informal and non-formal contexts. With contributions from5 continents and over 20 countries, including Australia, Canada, Cyprus, Denmark, Finland, France, Greece, Ireland, Japan, Spain, Sweden, the Netherlands, the UK and the USA, the book offers a thorough overview of the main influential theories and explores technology tools, approaches to research, and applications to practice. Carefully curated, this is an innovative and exciting volume for students, teachers, researchers and lecturers in language education.
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Bloomsbury Publishing (UK) Semantic Change and Collective Knowledge in 18th
Book SynopsisJohn Regan is Lecturer in Literature and the Digital at Royal Holloway, University of London, UK.Trade ReviewExploring at scale ECCO and other corpora of 18-century texts with tools developed by researchers at the Concept Lab (Cambridge Centre for Digital Knowledge), this exciting new monograph blends expert knowledge of the period with the affordances of the digital to investigate collective meaning and knowledge formation in 18th-century Britain. For those interested in how words and their lexical associations reflect social, political, and ideological change, as well as in the revolutionary potential of distant reading large repositories of texts, this book is a rare treat. -- Ileana Baird, Zayed University, United Arab EmiratesTable of ContentsIntroduction Part I: New Digital Insights into Collective Meaning 1.‘Beauty’ and the ‘Beautiful’: Semantic Difference at Scale 2. The Cases of ‘Perception’ and ‘Knowledge’: Semantic Decay Amidst the British Print Explosion 3. ‘Attention’: A Useful, Salutary Failure 4. ‘More is Different’: How the Collective View Contributes to our Knowledge of the British Eighteenth Century Part II: Common Conceptions of ‘Slavery’ across Political and Religious Discourses 5.The Curious Case of the ‘System of Government’ 6. The Evolution of the Meaning of Liberty across the British Eighteenth Century 7.‘Protestant’ and the Antonymic Production of Collective Meaning Conclusion Appendix I: Straightening Out Uneven ECCO Appendix II: How mPMI Works and Why it is Better Than Other Methods for Discovering Collective Meaning Bibliography Index
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Bloomsbury Publishing PLC Positionalities of Translation Studies
Book SynopsisGarda Elsherif is a Research Associate in the Department of Translation Studies, Linguistics and Cultural Studies at the University of Mainz, Germany. Joanna Sobesto is a Research Associate in the Faculty of Polish in the Centre for Translation Studies at Jagiellonian University, Poland.
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Edinburgh University Press Vowel Duration Patterns in Scottish English
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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.
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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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De Gruyter Corpus Linguistics. Volume 1
Book SynopsisThis volume provides an up-to-date survey of the field of corpus linguistics, a field whose methodology has revolutionized much of the empirical work done in most fields of linguistic study over the past decade. Corpus linguistics investigates human language by starting out from large collections of texts - spoken, written, or recorded. These language corpora, which are now regularly available in electronic form, are the basis for quantitative and qualitative research on almost any question of linguistic interest. Many techniques that are in use in corpus linguistics today are rooted in the tradition of the late 18th and 19th century, when linguistics began to make use of mathematical and empirical methods. Modern corpus linguistics has used and developed these methods in close connection with computer science and computational linguistics. The handbook sketches the history of corpus linguistics, shows its potential, discusses its problems, and describes various methods of collecting, annotating, and searching corpora as well as processing corpus data. It also reports case studies that illustrate the wide range of linguistic research questions addressed in corpus linguistics. The over 60 articles included in the handbook are divided into five sections:(1) the origins and history of corpus linguistics and surveys of its relationship to central fields of linguistics (2) corpus compilation (3) corpus types (4) preprocessing of corpora (5) the use and exploitation of corpora. The final section gives an overview of the results of corpus studies obtained in phonetics, phonology, morphology, syntax, semantics, sociolinguistics, historical linguistics, stylometry, dialectology, and discourse analysis. It also reports on recent advances made in human and machine translation, contrastive studies, computer-assisted language learning, and automatic summarization. The contributors to the volume are internationally known experts in their respective fields. The handbook is intended for a wide audience ranging from teachers, university students, and scholars to anyone interested in the use of computers in linguistic analyses and applications.
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De Gruyter Die Übersetzungstechnik des Bremer Evangelistars: Eine syntaktisch-stilistische Analyse unter Einbeziehung von Vergleichsübersetzungen des 14. bis frühen 16. Jahrhunderts
Book SynopsisThe history of German literature is to a large extent also a history of the translation and editing of Biblical texts. The study presents the translation technique of a medieval evangelist and provides insight into the methodical diversity of Bible translation in the late Middle Ages and the Early Modern Age.
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De Gruyter Exact Methods in the Study of Language and Text: Dedicated to Gabriel Altmann on the Occasion of his 75th Birthday
Book SynopsisThe collection contains more than 60 original papers and reflects current research topics in linguistics and text analysis. Most of the papers present recent results of empirical quantitative investigations; others focus on methodological issues, whereas some of them are of a more theoretical, systems-theoretical/semiotic character. Finally, a number of contributions form typical integrative deductive-inductive studies. The volume is a valuable source of information about the current state-of-the-art in quantitative linguistic research, presented by renowned representatives of the field.
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Walter de Gruyter Sprachliche Indexikalität männlicher
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Springer-Verlag Berlin and Heidelberg GmbH & Co. KG The Latvian Language in the Digital Age
Book SynopsisThis white paper is part of a series that promotes knowledge about language technology and its potential. It addresses educators, journalists, politicians, language communities and others. The availability and use of language technology in Europe varies between languages. Consequently, the actions that are required to further support research and development of language technologies also differ for each language. The required actions depend on many factors, such as the complexity of a given language and the size of its community. META-NET, a Network of Excellence funded by the European Commission, has conducted an analysis of current language resources and technologies. This analysis focused on the 23 official European languages as well as other important national and regional languages in Europe. The results of this analysis suggest that there are many significant research gaps for each language. A more detailed expert analysis and assessment of the current situation will help maximise the impact of additional research and minimize any risks. META-NET consists of 54 research centres from 33 countries that are working with stakeholders from commercial businesses, government agencies, industry, research organisations, software companies, technology providers and European universities. Together, they are creating a common technology vision while developing a strategic research agenda that shows how language technology applications can address any research gaps by 2020.
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Center for the Study of Language and Information AttributeValue Logic and the Theory of Grammar
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