Johansson Stig, Stenström Anna-Brita (eds.) English Computer Corpora: Selected Papers and Research Guide

Mouton de Gruyter, 1991. — 413 p. — (Topics in English Linguistics). — ISBN 0899256759, 3110123959, 9780899256757.The future of English linguistics as envisaged by the editors of Topics in English Linguistics lies in empirical studies which integrate work in English linguistics into general and theoretical linguistics on the one hand, and comparative linguistics on the other. The TiEL series features volumes that present interesting new data and analyses, and above all fresh approaches that contribute to the overall aim of the series, which is to further outstanding research in English linguistics.Computer corpora in English language research
Stig Johansson
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Probabilistic grammatical analysis
An analysis of probabilistic grammatical tagging methods
Steven J. DeRose
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Running a grammar factory: The production of syntactically analysed corpora or “treebanks”
Geoffrey Leech and Roger Garside
Probabilistic parsing in the COMMUNAL project
Clive Souter and Tim F. O'Donoghue
Syntax
On the exploration of corpus data by means of problem-oriented tagging: Postmodifying clauses in the English noun phrase
Pieter de Haan
Quantitative or qualitative corpus analysis? Infinitival complement clauses in the Survey of English Usage corpus
Christian Mair
Lexis
Automatic parsing meets the wall
Magnar Brekke
Polysemy and vagueness of meaning descriptions in the Longman dictionary of contemporary English
Piek Vossen
Speech
Amplifier collocations in spoken English
Bengt Altenberg
Prosodic labelling: The problem of tone group boundaries
Gerry Knowles
A study of up-arrows in the Lancaster/IBM Spoken English Corpus
Anne Wichmann
Regional/social variation
Will and shall in Australian English
Peter Collins
The grammatical subject in educated and dialectal English: Comparing the London-Lund Corpus and the Helsinki Corpus of Modern English Dialects
Ossi Ihalainen
The Kolhapur Corpus of Indian English – intravarietal description and/or intervarietal comparison
Gerhard Leitner
Specialised corpora
The compilation of a Danish-English-French corpus in contract law
Dorrit Faber and Karen M. Lauridsen
Swedish TEFL meets reality
Magnus Ljung
Software
Doing corpus work with PC Beta; or, how to be your own computational linguist
Benny Brodda
Concordance programs for personal computers
Knut Hofland
Corpora and dictionaries in multiline records: A Unix/Awk approach to home-made text retrieval
Jacques Noël
Reference section
A survey of English machine-readable corpora
Lita Taylor, Geoffrey Leech and Steven Fligelstone
A bibliography of publications relating to English computer corpora
Bengt Altenberg