Corpus Linguistics and the Web
Published on 1. January 2007
Book
Hardback
312 pages
978-90-420-2128-0 (ISBN)
Description
Using 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.
Reviews / Votes
"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)
More details
Series
Language
English
Place of publication
Leiden
Netherlands
Publishing group
Brill
Target group
College/higher education
Professional and scholarly
Product notice
sewn/stitched
Cloth over boards
Dimensions
Height: 235 mm
Width: 157 mm
Thickness: 28 mm
Weight
609 gr
ISBN-13
978-90-420-2128-0 (9789042021280)
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Schweitzer Classification
Content
Marianne HUNDT, Nadja NESSELHAUF and Carolin BIEWER: Corpus linguistics and the web
Accessing the web as corpus
Anke LUEDELING, 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
Guenter 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
Accessing the web as corpus
Anke LUEDELING, 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
Guenter 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