69 P128 As corpus linguistics matures, it has become less "an innocent sortie into corpus territory on the basis of a hunch" and more "an informed critical reassessment and/or extension of existing analytical orthodoxy and descriptions, in light of the potential offered by new data and tools coming on stream," according to editors Renouf and Kehoe (both of the Research & Development Unit for English Studies, Birmingham City U.
By covering such basics as regular expressions, text pattern methodology and quantitative text summaries, the author provides a tutorial to efficient and thorough text mining applications, including the bags-of-words model, TF-IDF similarity measure, concordance lines and corpus linguistics.
Using techniques from corpus linguistics (Altenberg and Eeg-Olofsson), I had previously looked at the structure of repeating phrases and collocations in Margaret Atwood's The Handmaid's Tale and Chaucer's Canterbury Tales (1993a-b).
The 18 papers here, selected from 38 presented at the conference, discuss such topics as NooJ applications for document clustering and corpus linguistics, building NooJ inflection graphs for the morphological description of nouns in Romanian, syntactic alternations, treating Chinese orthographical and lexical variants, regression model for politeness estimation trained on examples, and the treatment of named entities in machine translation.
1 P126 Corpus linguistics is a relatively new approach to linguistics that uses computers and electronic corpora in the investigation of a wide range of research questions concerning the empirical study of "real life" languages.
Contributors, who come from a variety of academic disciplines including psychology, linguistics, philosophy, cognitive science, and the law, address such specific topics as the neural theory of metaphor, how metaphors create categories, metaphor as a method of mapping structure, metaphor comprehension and the brain, metaphor in literature, metaphor in the body and culture, corpus linguistics and metaphor, metaphor and artificial intelligence, conceptual metaphor and the nature of mathematics, metaphor and emotion, metaphor and psychoanalysis, metaphor and art, metaphor in gesture and plot, and the role of metaphor in music.
For example, in the editorial of the first issue of the journal Corpus Linguistics, Wolfgang Teubert writes that corpus linguistics deals with language as a social phenomenon (1996: vi).
