This 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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