Computational and corpus linguistics Books
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 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.
£267.32
De Gruyter Corpus-Based Approaches to Metaphor and Metonymy
Book SynopsisThe papers in this volume deal with the issue of how corpus data relate to the questions that cognitive linguists have typically investigated with respect to conceptual mappings. The authors in this volume investigate a wide range of issues- the coherence and function of particular metaphorical models, the interaction of form and meaning, the identification of source domains of metaphorical expressions, the relationship between metaphor and discourse, the priming of metaphors, and the historical development of metaphors. The studies deal with a variety of metaphorical and metonymic source and target domains, including the source domains SPACE, ANIMALS, BODY PARTS, ORGANIZATIONS and WAR, and the target domains VERBAL ACTIVITY, ECONOMY, EMOTIONS and POLITICS. In their studies, the authors present a variety of corpus-linguistic methods for the investigation of conceptual mappings, for example, corpora annotated for semantic categories, concordances of individual source-domain items and patterns, and concordances of target-domain items. In sum, the papers in this volume show how a wide range of corpus-linguistic methods can be used to investigate a variety of issues in cognitive linguistics; the combination of corpus methods with a cognitive-linguistic view of metaphor and metonymy yields new answers to old questions (and to new questions) about the relationship between language as a conceptual phenomenon and language as a textual phenomenon.
£146.40
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.
£164.82
De Gruyter Why So Serious
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£105.45
de Gruyter Speech Dynamics
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£124.00
de Gruyter Mutual Intelligibility Between Closely Related
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£95.00
de Gruyter Konnektoren ALS Konstruktionale Grenzgänger
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£108.89
De Gruyter Quantification in Linguistics and Text Analysis
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£101.65
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.
£21.85
De Gruyter Exploring digitallymediated communication with
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de Gruyter The Phonetics of Derived Words in English
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£16.65
de Gruyter The Semantics of Derivational Morphology
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£17.58
de Gruyter Discourse Markers in Interaction
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de Gruyter The Development of the Concept of Smell in
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Peter Lang AG Language Family Oriented Perspective in
Book SynopsisGrammatical relatedness of Slavic languages could effectively be exploited in multilingual grammar engineering in order to achieve theoretically sound modularity that would also incorporate important insights from Slavic linguistics. In line with increasing interest in finegrained modular linguistic representations, this book investigates the plausibility of designing linguistically motivated shared grammatical resources for an interesting set of related languages in a grammar formalism that appears to be suited for this endeavour. Grammar is viewed as a repository of knowledge encoded in rich ontologies. Selected topics of Slavic morphosyntax illustrate the range of shared grammatical knowledge to be modelled.
£53.28
Peter Lang AG Corpora and ICT in Language Studies: Palc 2005
Book SynopsisInformation and communication technology (ICT) has dramatically altered the world's social and economic landscape and is now gaining momentum in the realm of language studies. Corpora and ICT in Language Studies attempts to signal and document this phenomenon by bringing together twenty-nine contributions authored by both seasoned researchers and newcomers to the field. The contributions range from more traditional corpus-based or corpus-driven studies to those incorporating ICT as an integral part of their methodology. The volume includes a selection of conference papers given at PALC 2005, the fifth conference in the biennial cycle of meetings organized by the Department of English Language at Lódz University, as well as a number of invited papers. The papers are grouped in three parts: corpora in empirical language studies, cognitive linguistics and e-learning.
£84.10
Peter Lang AG Corpus Linguistics with «BNCweb» – a Practical
Book SynopsisThis book presents a richly illustrated, hands-on discussion of one of the fastest growing fields in linguistics today. The authors address key methodological issues in corpus linguistics, such as collocations, keywords and the categorization of concordance lines. They show how these topics can be explored step-by-step with BNCweb, a user-friendly web-based tool that supports sophisticated analyses of the 100-million-word British National Corpus. Indeed, the BNC and BNCweb have been described by Geoffrey Leech as «an unparalleled combination of facilities for finding out about the English language of the present day» (Foreword). The book contains tasks and exercises, and is suitable for undergraduates, postgraduates and experienced corpus users alike.Table of ContentsContents: Reference guide to BNCweb, a user-friendly, web-based interface to the British National Corpus (key features include: collocations, frequency distribution, keywords) – Practical guide to methodology, covering both quantitative and qualitative analysis of corpora – Query language reference.
£31.30
Peter Lang AG Typed Feature Structure Grammars
Book SynopsisThe articles collected in this volume present different aspects of the use of typed feature structures in theoretical and computational linguistics. It covers a wide range of linguistics theories (CCG, Construction Grammar, HPSG, LTAG), a wide range of linguistic phenomena (aspect, concord, idioms, passive), and a wide range of applications (parsing, question answering, semantic composition).Table of ContentsContents: Anders Søgaard/Petter Haugereid: Introduction – Anders Søgaard: From unordered context-free grammar to polysize HPSG without moving – Frank Richter/Laura Kallmeyer: Feature logic-based semantic composition: a comparison between LRS and LTAG – Mark McConville: Inheritance-based Combinatory Categorial Grammar – Anne Bjerre/Tavs Bjerre: Sidder og…: Constructional aspect in Danish – Maria Flouraki: Aspectual composition in Minimal Recursion Semantics – Petter Haugereid: A constructional approach to syntax and the treatment of passive in Norwegian – Patrizia Paggio/Dorte Haltrup Hansen/Lene Offersgaard: Ontology-based question-answering with feature structures.
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Peter Lang AG Corpus Linguistics, Computer Tools, and
Book SynopsisContents: Barbara Lewandowska-Tomaszczyk: PALC 2007: Where are we now? – Paul Rayson/Dawn Archer/Alistair Baron/Nicholas Smith: Travelling through time with corpus annotation software – Eugene H. Casad: Parsing texts and compiling a dictionary with shoebox – Belinda Maia/Rui Silva/Anabela Barreiro/Cecília Fróis: ‘N-grams in search of theories’ – Piotr Pęzik/Jung-jae Kim/Dietrich Rebholz-Schuhmann: MedEvi - A permuted concordancer for the biomedical domain – Patrick Hanks: Why the «word sense disambiguation problem» can’t be solved, and what should be done instead – RafałTrade Review«PALC celebrates its 10th anniversary with a bumper conference proceeding – comprising papers on challenges related to learners of English, machine and human translation, terminology extraction, subtitling and challenges related to the role of the ubiquitous Internet in teaching and learning of languages. And, if this was not enough there are two papers related to what the authors call the equivalent of a GUT (grand unified theory) of language. PALC is a conference which always has had an exciting mix of scholars, looking at language from different perspectives but unified in using text corpora, and now speech corpora, and in substantiating their claims through the use of the corpora. And, it is in PALC that West is now meeting East: the Anglo-American-Continental linguists are finding about central and eastern European scholarship; a touch of Chinese and Arabic language scholarship makes PALC a heady mix. These proceedings should and will be widely read.» (Khurshid Ahmad, Professor of Computer Science, Department of Computer Science, Trinity College, Dublin)Table of ContentsContents: Barbara Lewandowska-Tomaszczyk: PALC 2007: Where are we now? – Paul Rayson/Dawn Archer/Alistair Baron/Nicholas Smith: Travelling through time with corpus annotation software – Eugene H. Casad: Parsing texts and compiling a dictionary with shoebox – Belinda Maia/Rui Silva/Anabela Barreiro/Cecília Fróis: ‘N-grams in search of theories’ – Piotr Pęzik/Jung-jae Kim/Dietrich Rebholz-Schuhmann: MedEvi - A permuted concordancer for the biomedical domain – Patrick Hanks: Why the «word sense disambiguation problem» can’t be solved, and what should be done instead – Rafał L. Górski: Representativeness of a written part of a Polish general-reference corpus. Primary notes – Michael P. Oakes: Measures from information retrieval to find the words which are characteristic of a corpus – Dimitra Anastasiou/Oliver Čulo: Using topological information for detecting idiomatic verb phrases in German – Elżbieta Dura: Synergies in term extraction from different corpora – Jurij Fiedoruszkow: Methods for electronic retrieval of new words in Russian – Michael Hoey/Matthew Brook O’Donnell: The beginning of something important?: Corpus evidence on the text beginnings of hard new stories – Dagmar Divjak: On (in)frequency and (un)acceptability – Agnieszka Kaleta: Corpus-cognitive methods in discriminating between synonyms: a case of ‘to end’ and ‘to finish’ – Audronė Šolienė: Markers of epistemic possibility and necessity in Lithuanian and English: A corpus-based study – Janusz Badio: Verb complementation in speech - a corpus study – Heli Tissari: On the concept of sadness: Looking at words in contexts derived from corpora – Peter Crompton: Definiteness and indefiniteness in theme: A corpus-based analysis – Anna Bączkowska: Contrasting Polish and English prepositions: The case of w/na deszczu vs. in the rain and w/na słońcu vs. in the sun – Anna Kamińska: Creating comparable corpora for historical syntactic studies: The case of Old English and Old High German – Stanisław Goźdź-Roszkowski: Variation across disciplines and genres. A preliminary multi-dimensional analysis – Christoph Haase/Josef Schmied: Clause linking in specialized and popular academic English: An investigation into scientific texts from the space corpus – Jerzy Gaszewski: Polish and English answering systems – Salvatore Giammaressi: Second generation Translation Memory systems and formulaic sequences – Julia Lavid: Contrastes: An online English-Spanish textual database for contrastive and translation learning – Meng Ji: Phraseology in corpus-based translation studies – Włodzimierz Sobkowiak: Dictionary definitions as text corpora - a phonolexicographic perspective – Michal Křen: Compilation of the Dictionary of Karel Čapek – Piotr Bański/Beata Wójtowicz: New XML-encoded Swahili-Polish dictionary: Micro- and macrostructure – Geoffrey Williams: Are We European? What verbs reveal about identity in Le Monde and elsewhere – Adam Pawłowski: Corpus approach to the Polish communist propaganda language from the Stalinist period (1953). The method of Short Semantic Representation (SSR) – Monika Kopytowska: Key concepts in framing Africa’s problems - analysing a corpus of TV news reports – Alex Boulton: Looking for empirical evidence of data-driven learning at lower levels – Joanna Jendryczka-Wierszycka: Vagueness in Polglish speech – Łukasz Grabowski: FLT and teaching translation with the National Russian Corpus. Theoretical overview, actual state and future prospects in Poland
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Peter Lang AG Translation Studies and Eye-Tracking Analysis
Book SynopsisFor some time already, a discourse within the field of Translation Studies has increasingly focused on the translator, his/her translation properties and mental processes resulting from their application. Recent years and advances in technology have opened up many possibilities of gaining a deeper insight into these processes. This publication presents the theoretical foundations, the results of scientific experiments, and a broad range of questions to be asked and answered by eye-tracking supported translation studies. The texts have been arranged into two thematic parts. The first part consists of texts dedicated to the theoretical foundations of Translation Studies-oriented eye-tracking research. The second part includes texts discussing the results of the experiments that were carried out.Table of ContentsContents: Sambor Grucza/Monika Płużyczka/Justyna Zając: Eye-Tracking Supported Translation Studies at the University of Warsaw (Instead of Introduction) – Sambor Grucza: Heat Maps, Gaze Plots ... and What Next? The Access to Translation Competences and Translation Processes – Jerzy Żmudzki: Problems, Objectives and Challenges of the Polish Translation Studies and Theory – Marta Małachowicz: Knowledge - Transference - Translation – Ewa Zwierzchoń-Grabowska: Could Eye-Tracking Help to Reconstruct the Translation Processes? – Paweł Soluch/Adam Tarnowski: Eye-Tracking Methods and Measures – Monika Płużyczka: Eye-Tracking Supported Research Into Sight Translation. Lapsological Conclusions – Silvia Hansen-Schirra, Christoph Rosener: Proactive Use of Eye-Tracking in the Translational Workflow – Agnieszka Szarkowska/Izabela Krejtz/Krzysztof Krejtz/Andrew Duchowski: Harnessing the Potential of Eye-Tracking for Media Accessibility – Justyna Zając: Eye-Tracking Research of Business Email Reception.
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Peter Lang AG Language, Languages and New Technologies: ICT in
Book SynopsisThe development of smaller and more powerful computers and the introduction of new communication channels by the interlinking of computers, by the Internet and the World Wide Web, have caused great changes for linguistics. They affect the methods in the various disciplines of pure linguistics as well as the tools and ways of applied linguistics such as translation and interpretation, language teaching, learning, and testing. This volume presents general reflections and overview articles on these new developments by noted experts followed by reports on the concrete uses of information technologies for linguistic purposes in different European countries and at the European Parliament. A discussion of another important linguistic issue is added: the various uses of the highly symbolic term national language.Table of ContentsContents: John Nikolaos Kazazis: Welcome address – Αntonios Rengakos: Welcome notes – Gerhard Stickel: Opening – Sabine Kirchmeier-Andersen: Language technology for language institutions. What kind of technology do languages institutions use - what kind of resources can they provide? – Tamás Váradi: The relevance of language technology infrastructures: national and European initiatives – Dimitrios Koutsogiannis: ICTs and language teaching: the missing third circle – John C. Paolillo: Language, the Internet and access: do we recognize all the issues? – Guy Berg: Babel life - Informations- und Kommunikationstechnologien im Dienste der Mehrsprachigkeit bei den Organen und Einrichtungen der Europäischen Union – Manuel Casado Velarde/Fernando Sánchez León: Notes on Real Academia Española’s tools and resources – Seán Ó Cearnaigh: A brief report to Information Computer Technologies in Ireland – Catia Cucchiarini/Linde van den Bosch: Medium-sized languages and the technology challenge: the Dutch language experience in a European perspective – Anna Dąbrowska/Tadeusz Piotrowski: Information Computer Technologies and the Polish language – Maria Gavrilidou/Penny Labropoulou/Stelios Piperidis: National Report on Language Technology in Greece – Thibault Grouas : Présentation de la Recommandation « Langues et internet » du Forum des droits sur l’internet – Einar Meister: Human Language Technology developments in Estonia – Pirkko Nuolijärvi/Toni Suutari: The landscape of the Finnish language research infrastructure – Anna Maria Gustafsson/Pirkko Nuolijärvi: Multilingual public websites in Finland – Svelta Koeva: Natural Language Processing in Bulgaria (from BLARK to competitive language technologies) – Eiríkur Rögnvaldsson: Icelandic language technology: an overview – Andreas Witt/Oliver Schonefeld: Informationsinfrastrukturen am Institut für Deutsche Sprache – Bessie Dendrinos/Jean-François Baldi/Pietro G. Beltrami/Walery Pisarek/Maria Theodoropoulou: Panel discussion: The symbolism of the notion of national language.
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Peter Lang AG Applied Linguistics Today: Research and
Book SynopsisThe volume contains 15 papers by linguists from seven different European countries. The papers offer insights into the research results of a number of recent studies conducted in the field of applied linguistics covering topics such as specialized communication, foreign language teaching, terminology problems and the like. Dieser Band enthält 15 Beiträge von 24 Sprachwissenschaftlern aus sieben europäischen Ländern. In den Beiträgen werden die neueren Forschungsergebnisse auf dem Gebiet der Angewandten Linguistik veröffentlicht, in denen es unter anderem um die Themen Fachkommunikation, Fremdsprachenlernen und Terminologiefragen geht.Table of ContentsContents/Inhalt: Hans Jürgen Heringer: Automatische Bewertung von Lernertexten. Ein Konzept und seine Anwendungen – Melita Aleksa Varga/Hrisztalina Hrisztova Gotthardt: Analyse der lexikalischen Kompetenz von Deutschlernenden auf der Niveaustufe C1 – Vesna Bagarić Medve/Ivan Čelebić: Bewertung der Diskurskompetenz: holistischer vs. analytischer Ansatz – Jelena Mihaljević Djigunović/Lucilla Lopriore: Aural comprehension in young learners’ FL development – Višnja Pavičić Takač/Dunja Požega: Personality Traits, Willingness to Communicate and Oral Proficiency in English as a Foreign Language – Irena Vodopija-Krstanović: The Challenges of Teaching English as an International Language – Kristina Cergol Kovačević: Global English on Language Mode Continuum – Jan Engberg: Specialized communication and culture, practice, competence and knowledge: Implications and derived insights – Katalin Fogarasi: Rechtsmedizinische Terminologie in der Befunderhebung von Weichgewebeverletzungen. Eine korpusgestützte Analyse des Terminusgebrauchs in Ungarn und in Deutschland – Borislav Marušić: Funktionsverbgefüge im Wirtschaftsdeutsch – Sanja Berberović/Nihada Delibegović Džanić: A Boom in the Figurative Language Market: The Conceptualization of the global economic crisis in American public discourse – Annette Đurović/Branislav Ivanović/Zorica Mančić: Phraseologismen mit der somatischen Komponente Kopf im Deutschen und hu-vud im Schwedischen – Leonard Pon: Zum Präpositionalattribut in der deutschen Gegenwartssprache – Daniela Katunar/Krešimir Šojat/Željko Agić/Žarko Stojanović: Visualization of the Croatian WordNet – Alexander D. Hoyt: Building a Historical Corpus of Croatian Correspondence.
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Peter Lang AG Lexical Challenges in a Multilingual Europe:
Book SynopsisThe tenth EFNIL conference investigated the different ways in which people in Europe access lexical information – both in their own language and in other languages – and how governments, language institutions, publishers, and others go about the business of compiling and disseminating this lexical information. In this volume, general reflections by several experts on the history, the present state and new developments of lexicography in Europe are presented, followed by reports on special lexicographic projects in several European countries. The Budapest Resolution of EFNIL on the Lexical Challenges in Multilingual Europe offered in the official languages of most of the member states of the European Union and other European countries concludes the book.Table of ContentsContents: Istvan Kenesei: Welcome address – Claude Durand : Intervention de M. Claude Durand à la conférence annuelle de l'EFNIL - Budapest, 25 octobre 2012 – Gerhard Stickel: Introduction – Patrick Hanks: Lexicography and technology in the Renaissance and now – Gábor Prószéky: How «truly electronic dictionaries» of the 21st Century should look like? – Willy Martin: A Dutch recipe for the production of bilingual dictionaries – Annette Klosa: Aktuelle Tendenzen in der deutschen Lexikographie der Gegenwart – John Simpson: Mediums of access to the Oxford English Dictionary – Pádraig Ó Mianáin: The New English-Irish Dictionary – Anna Dąbrowska/Walery Pisarek: National Corpus of Polish and Great Dictionary of Polish. Two leading projects of present-day Polish lexicography – Cecilia Robustelli: Il Vocabolario dell’Accademia della Crusca e i primi grandi vocabolari delle lingue europee – Guðrún Kvaran: Modern Icelandic lexicography – Christian Mattsson: The Swedish Lexin Project - dictionaries in 22 minority languages – Margit Langemets: «To think outside the paper»: The case of Estonia – Jolanta Zabarskaitė: Lithuanian lexicography in the 21st century: quo vadis? – Uwe Mohr: Poliglotti4.eu - ein Projekt der EU Civil Society Platform on Multilingualism – Georg Rehm/Hans Uszkoreit: An Extended Summary of the META-NET Strategic Research Agenda for Multilingual Europe 2020.
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Peter Lang AG Methods in Writing Process Research
Book SynopsisMethods for studying writing processes have significantly developed over the last two decades. The rapid development of software tools which support the collection together with the display and analysis of writing process data and new input from various neighboring disciplines contribute to an increasingly detailed knowledge acquisition about the complex cognitive processes of writing. This volume, which focuses on research methods, mixed methods designs, conceptual considerations of writing process research, interdisciplinary research influences and the application of research methods in educational settings, provides an insight into the current status of the methodological development of writing process research in Europe.Table of ContentsContents: Carmen Heine/Dagmar Knorr/Jan Engberg: Methods in writing process research. Introduction and overview – Kees de Glopper/Jacqueline van Kruiningen/Noortje Hemmen: Context in Writing Process Research. An exploratory analysis of context characteristics in writing process research in educational and workplace settings – Daniel Perrin: Combining methods in AL-informed writing research – Gabriela Ruhmann: Between Experience and Empirical Research. Writing Process Counseling as a natural setting for Writing Process Research – Gary Massey/Maureen Ehrensberger-Dow: Looking Beyond Text. The usefulness of translation process data – Iris Schrijver/Leona Van Vaerenbergh/Mariëlle Leijten/Luuk Van Waes: The translator as a writer. Measuring the effect of writing skills on the translation product – Carmen Heine/Jan Engberg/Dagmar Knorr/Daniel Spielmann: New methods of text production process research combined – Joachim Grabowski/Michael Becker-Mrotzek/Matthias Knopp/Jörg Jost/Christian Weinzierl: Comparing and combining different approaches to the assessment of text quality – Djuddah A.J. Leijen: Applying machine learning techniques to investigate the influence of peer feedback on the writing process – Susanne Göpferich: Methods of measuring students’ text production competence and its development in writing courses – Katrin Lehnen/Lisa Schüler/Martin Steinseifer: A showcase on reading and writing. Visual resources for analyzing, teaching and learning how to write academic texts.
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Peter Lang AG Job Interview Corpus: Data Transcription and
Book SynopsisThe aim of this book and its accompanying audio files is to make accessible a corpus of 40 authentic job interviews conducted in English. The recordings and transcriptions of the interviews published here may be used by students, teachers and researchers alike for linguistic analyses of spoken discourse and as authentic material for language learning in the classroom. The book includes an introduction to corpus linguistics, offering insight into different kinds of corpora and discussing their main characteristics. Furthermore, major features of the discourse genre job interview are outlined and detailed information is given concerning the job interview corpus published in this book.Table of ContentsContents: Job interview – Corpus linguistics – Job interview corpus – Transcription conventions – Data transcription – Spoken discourse – Language learning – Main characteristics of corpora – Job interview as a discourse genre.
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Peter Lang AG CALL for Openness
Book SynopsisThis volume explores multiple dimensions of openness in ICT-enhanced education. The chapters, contributed by researchers and academic teachers, present a number of exemplary solutions in the area. They involve the use of open source software, innovative technologies, teaching/learning methods and techniques, as well as examine potential benefits for both teachers' and students' cognitive, behavioural and metacognitive development.Table of ContentsOpenness – Innovation in education – Open source software – Innovative CALL methods – CALL, Computer Assisted Language Learning – Computer Aided Instruction
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Peter Lang AG Heteroglossia Online: Translocal Processes of
Book SynopsisThe nature of communicative practices today, particularly in the context of digitalized media, has revealed that earlier paradigms on language contact do not prove to be fully satisfactory. Based on 1,507 Facebook posts of German university students participating in the Erasmus exchange program, the analysis aims at exploring how posters draw on their entire repertoire of local and «translocal» semiotic resources in interactions among speakers with diverse language backgrounds. The students under examination participate in actual processes of meaning-making by refashioning the semiotic potential of various features. As a result, the interlocutors create heteroglossic and polycentric posts to decollapse collided and fuzzy contexts and to negotiate potentially large and multiple audiences.Table of ContentsLanguage as social, open, adaptive constructions, deeply embedded in sociohistorical developments of speech communities – Including both micro and macro, as well as synchronic and diachronic dimension of analysis to understand non-linear processes of meaning-making – Speakers draw on mobile semiotic features in heteroglossic interactions
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Peter Lang AG Optimizing the Process of Teaching English for
Book SynopsisThe ubiquity of mobile devices has opened the way to extending learning environments far beyond the constraints of the traditional foreign language classroom. This book seeks to advance the knowledge about effective learning and teaching of English for Medical Purposes supported by mobile environments. The author investigates the effectiveness of the use of a mobile version of a flashcard spaced-repetition learning platform. In conclusion, she presents core principles of an educational solution that supports the ongoing and situated learning of English for Medical Purposes by designing a mobile spaced-repetition medical vocabulary tutor («Mobile Medical English Companion»).Table of ContentsEnglish for Specific Purposes – English for Medical Purposes – Mobile-Assisted Language Learning – Mobile applications – Memrise.com – Learner Autonomy – Learner Motivation
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Peter Lang AG CALL for Mobility
Book SynopsisThis book investigates various aspects of Computer Assisted Language Learning (CALL) that address the challenges arising due to increasing learner and teacher mobility. The chapters deal with two broad areas, i.e. mobile technology for teacher and translator education and technology for mobile language learning. The authors allow for insights into how mobile learning activities can be used in educational settings by providing research on classroom practice. This book aims at helping readers gain a better understanding of the function and implementation of mobile technologies in local classroom contexts to support mobility, professional development, and language and culture learning.Table of ContentsCALL – Computer Assisted Language Learning – MALL – Technology for professional development – Learner mobility – Teacher mobility
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Peter Lang AG Lingua e testualità dei diari on-line italiani
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Peter Lang AG CALL for Background
Book SynopsisThe volume discusses a multitude of ways in which CALL can serve to develop and support broadly conceived issues-of background in language education. The individual chapters explore a number of areas in which CALL techniques and tools enhance language instruction. The issues reported on comprise working with mature language learners, developing civic education, ICT affordances for ESP, professional training for translators, interpreters and crowdsourcing opportunities. Other contributions center around CALL-related resources, CAPT metacompetence and blended-learning paradigms as well as exploring cultural and linguistic issues in online exchanges.Table of ContentsBackground in language instruction – ICT affordances – ESP – telecollaboration – metacompetence – blended-learning – translation competence – translation services – glottogeragogics – implicit crowdsourcing – civic education – CAPT – language learning
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Peter Lang AG Las Humanidades Digitales En La Ensenanza de Las
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Peter Lang AG The Competition Between Overt Suffixation and ZeroAffixation in PresentDay English Nominalisation
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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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V&R unipress GmbH Sprache in kulturellen Kontexten / Language in
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John Benjamins Publishing Co Exploring Newspaper Language: Using the web to
Book SynopsisThis book describes new methodological and technological approaches to corpus building and presents recent research based on the Norwegian Newspaper Corpus. This is a large monitor corpus of contemporary Norwegian language, compiled through daily harvesting of web newspapers. The book gives an overview of the corpus and its system architecture, and presents tools used for tasks such as text harvesting, annotation, topic classification and extraction and frequency profiling of new words and phrases. Among the innovative technologies is Corpuscle, a corpus query engine and management system which is flexible enough to handle very large corpora in an efficient way. The individual research contributions based on the corpus explore different aspects of Norwegian, including the occurrence of anglicisms, neologisms and terminology, and the use of metonymy and metaphor in newspaper language. The book also describes an innovative method of applying correspondence analysis and implicational analysis to investigate interdependencies between morphosyntactic variants.Table of Contents1. Building a large corpus based on newspapers from the web (by Andersen, Gisle); 2. Part I. Exploiting the web as a corpus - Methods and tools; 3. Corpuscle - a new corpus management platform for annotated corpora (by Meurer, Paul); 4. OBT+stat: A combined rule-based and statistical tagger (by Johannessen, Janne Bondi); 5. Exploring corpora through syntactic annotation (by Rosen, Victoria); 6. Collocations and statistical analysis of n-grams: Multiword expressions in newspaper text (by Lyse, Gunn Inger); 7. Automatic topic classification of a large newspaper corpus (by Hagen, Thomas M.); 8. A data-driven approach to anglicism identification in Norwegian (by Losnegaard, Gyri Smordal); 9. Part II. Corpus-based case studies; 10. A corpus-based study of the adaptation of English import words in Norwegian (by Andersen, Gisle); 11. Norm clusters in written Norwegian (by Dyvik, Helge); 12. Lexical neography in modern Norwegian (by Fjeld, Ruth Vatvedt); 13. Ash compound frenzy: A case study in the Norwegian Newspaper Corpus (by De Smedt, Koenraad); 14. Financial jargon in a general newspaper corpus (by Kristiansen, Marita); 15. Metonymic extension and vagueness: Schengen and Kyoto in Norwegian newspaper language (by Halverson, Sandra L.); 16. Spatial metaphors in present-day Norwegian newspaper language (by Breivik, Leiv Egil); 17. Doing historical linguistics using contemporary data (by Andersen, Oivin); 19. Subject index
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John Benjamins Publishing Co Challenges in Corpus Linguistics
Book SynopsisThis book contributes to the discussion of challenges faced in different areas of corpus linguistics, namely the compilation, annotation, and analysis of linguistic corpora. In a field of growing corpus sizes and expanding possibilities of gathering data, some old issues persist, while at the same time new problems have emerged. As the compilation and study of language corpora gets increasingly sophisticated and complex, continuous attention on ways of dealing with the data in question and challenges in text selection and interpretation is needed. The contributions to this volume address problems relating to a variety of areas in corpus linguistic study, including corpus annotation, data variability, learner language, social media texts, and database utilization. The authors provide critical overviews and research-based analyses, discuss the nature of some of the common pitfalls, and offer solutions to existing problems.
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John Benjamins Publishing Co Crossing Boundaries through Corpora
Book SynopsisThis volume illustrates new trends in corpus linguistics and shows how corpus approaches can be used to investigate new datasets and emerging areas in linguistics and related fields. It addresses innovative research questions, for example how prosodic analyses can increase the accuracy of syntactic segmentation, how tolerant English language teachers are about language variation, or how natural language can be translated into corpus query language. The thematic scope encompasses four types of boundary crossings'. These include the incorporation of innovative scientific methods, specifically new statistical techniques, acoustic analysis and stylistic investigations. Additionally, temporal boundaries are crossed through the use of new methods and corpora to study diachronic data. New methodologies are also explored through the analysis of prosody, variety-specific approaches, and teacher attitudes. Finally, corpus users can cross boundaries by employing a more user-friendly corpus query language.
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John Benjamins Publishing Co Investigating Wikipedia
Book SynopsisThe present volume is intended as a reference book on Wikipedia corpus studies, from corpus construction to exploration and analysis. Wikipedia is a complex object, difficult to manipulate for linguists and corpus researchers. In addition to the encyclopedic articles consulted by millions of users, it contains vast spaces of written discussions, aka talk pages, where Wikipedia authors negotiate the collaborative editing of articles, make evaluations, or discuss related topics. The proposed volume covers Wikipedia articles, their revision histories, and discussions, with a focus on discussions, which have not been studied extensively so far and have also been neglected in previous corpus building efforts. Wikipedia discussions are instances of computer-mediated communication (CMC), thus constituting a completely different, interaction-oriented linguistic genre. Sophisticated tools and methods of linguistic annotation and corpus exploration are needed to exploit the huge and valuable corpus resources that can be constructed from the Wikipedia discussions. The present volume aims at encouraging and facilitating Wikipedia corpus studies, providing standards, recommendations, and innovative methods to build and explore Wikipedia corpora, and presenting corpus studies that make the most of the peculiarities of Wikipedia.
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Springer Mathematical Methods in Linguistics
Book SynopsisElementary set theory accustoms the students to mathematical abstraction, includes the standard constructions of relations, functions, and orderings, and leads to a discussion of the various orders of infinity. The material on logic covers not only the standard statement logic and first-order predicate logic but includes an introduction to formal systems, axiomatization, and model theory. The section on algebra is presented with an emphasis on lattices as well as Boolean and Heyting algebras. Background for recent research in natural language semantics includes sections on lambda-abstraction and generalized quantifiers. Chapters on automata theory and formal languages contain a discussion of languages between context-free and context-sensitive and form the background for much current work in syntactic theory and computational linguistics. The many exercises not only reinforce basic skills but offer an entry to linguistic applications of mathematical concepts. For upper-level undergraduate students and graduate students in theoretical linguistics, computer-science students with interests in computational linguistics, logic programming and artificial intelligence, mathematicians and logicians with interests in linguistics and the semantics of natural language.Table of ContentsPreface. Part A. Set Theory. 1. Basic Concepts of Set Theory. 2. Relations and Functions. 3. Properties of Relations. 4. Infinities. Appendix A1. Part B. Logic and Formal Systems. 5. Basic Concepts of Logic. 6.Statement Logic. 7. Predicate Logic. 8. Formal Systems, Axiomatization, and Model Theory. Appendix B1. Appendix BII. Part C. Algebra. 9. Basic Concepts of Algebra. 10. Operational Structures. 11. Lattices. 12. Boolean and Heyting Algebras. Part D. English as a Formal Language. 13. Basic Concepts of Formal Languages. 14. Generalized Quantifiers. 15. Intensionality. Part E. Languages, Grammars, and Automata. 16. Basic Concepts of Languages, Grammars, and Automata. 17. Finite Automata, Regular Languages and Type 3 Grammars. 18. Pushdown Automata, Context-Free Grammars and Languages. 19. Turing Machines, Recursively Enumberable Languages, and Type 0 Grammars. 20. Linear Bounded Automata, Context-Sensitive Languages and Type 1 Grammars. 21. Languages Between Context-Free and Context-Sensitive. 22. Transformational Grammars. Appendix EI. Appendix EII. Review Problems. Index.
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De Gruyter A Grammar of Stories: An Introduction
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World Scientific Publishing Co Pte Ltd When Language Meets Blockchain
Book SynopsisLanguage ability is a unique human trait, and it is indispensable throughout the human life cycle. Blockchain on the other hand, is an innovation that will transform production relationships, change collaboration models and distribution of benefits between people. Language and blockchain seem to have no intersection, yet they are bewilderingly similar in certain ways.When Language Meets Blockchain leads us into an exploratory journey to discover the possibilities of integrating blockchain technology with the language services industry. The author discusses how blockchain technology enables translators to realise their full potential and describes how the role of language can be elevated from a general tool to a driving force through a new concept called Cross-Linguistic Capability. This is a concept that will have very intriguing and beneficial implications for global economic activities.It is demonstrated that language is more than just a tool, it is also a resource and a form of capability. This presents opportunities for cross-linguistic and cross-cultural communications in the era of blockchain, to enable the convergence of linguistic capability with blockchain technology and artificial intelligence. The book's perspective on how the language services industry could adapt to times to embrace blockchain technology for industrial transformation, is both forwarding-looking and value enhancing.Table of ContentsLinguistic Capability — Catalyst for Human Civilisation; The Fusion of Language and Blockchain; Token Economy and Language Services; Preface; Introduction; To Know Macro from Micro — Innate Similarities Between Language and Blockchain; A Sudden Revelation — Everyone Lives within His Own Language Chain; A Perpetual Deadlock — The Language-Based Translation Services Industry Remains a Workshop-Style Existence; Unrecognised Gifts — In Need of a Suitable Model for Bilingual Talents to Actualise Their Potential; Wide Recognition — Blockchain Reveals the Value of Bilingual Talent; A Perfect Match — The Wonderful Union of Language and Blockchain; The Born Child — Cross-Linguistic Capability is Fundamental in the Blockchain Era; A Beautiful Evolution — A New World Free from Language Barriers; The Journey with Language — A Mutually Fulfilling Partnership; The Conclusion: Once in a Thousand Years; Epilogue;
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