Exploring Newspaper Language

Name: Exploring Newspaper Language | Using the web to create and investigate a large corpus of modern Norwegian
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Using the web to create and investigate a large corpus of modern Norwegian

Gisle Andersen(Editor)

John Benjamins Publishing Company

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Published on 23. March 2012

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Exploring Newspaper Language
Editorial page
Titla page
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Table of contents
Building a large corpus based on newspapers from the web
1. Introduction
2. An overview of the Norwegian Newspaper Corpus and its system architecture
2.1 Text harvesting
2.2 Boilerplate and duplicate removal
2.3 Language classification
2.4 Text annotation
2.4.1 Annotation of source, date and author information
2.4.2 Topic classification
2.4.3 Part-of-speech tagging
2.5 Search system and user interface
2.5.1 Corpus WorkBench
2.5.2 Corpuscle
2.6 Extraction of new words
2.7 Classification of new words
2.7.1 Anglicism detection
2.8 Frequency profiling and lexical database entry
2.9 Identification of multiword expressions
3. The content of the research contributions to this book
4. Concluding remarks
References
Part II. Exploiting the web as a corpus - Methods and tools
Corpuscle - a new corpus management platform for annotated corpora
1. Introduction
2. Design principles
3. Querying the corpus
4. API and Web interface
4.1 The API
4.2 The Web interface
5. Editing and manual annotation
6. Evaluation and concluding remarks
References
OBT+stat
1. Introduction
2. Background
2.1 The history of the Oslo-Bergen Tagger
2.2 State of the art for Norwegian POS taggers
3. The architecture of the Oslo-Bergen Constraint Grammar Tagger
4. Methodology of improvements to the Oslo-Bergen Tagger
5. Dealing with left-over ambiguities in the Oslo-Bergen Tagger
5.1 Morphological ambiguities
5.2 Lemma ambiguities
6. Statistical disambiguation
7. Modelling challenges and engineering concerns
8. Evaluation of the statistical module
8.1 How to evaluate
8.2 Evaluation results
9. Conclusion
References
Exploring corpora through syntactic annotation
1. Introduction
2. Treebanking
3. INESS - the Norwegian treebanking infrastructure
4. Searching for complex syntactic constructions in a treebank
4.1 Passive constructions
4.2 Relative clauses
5. Conclusion
References
Collocations and statistical analysis of n-grams
1. Introduction
2. Background
2.1 Multiword Expressions (MWEs)
2.2 Collocations
3. Methodology
3.1 Data and n-gram extraction
3.2 Post-processing of n-gram lists
3.3 Contingency tables
3.3.1 Bigram Contingency Tables
3.3.2 Trigram Contingency Tables
3.4 Bigram Association Measures
3.5 Trigram Association Measures
4. Results
4.1 Bigrams
4.2 Trigrams
5. Conclusion and Future Work
References
Automatic topic classi cation of a large newspaper corpus
1. Introduction
2. Background and related work
2.1 The rule-based approach
2.2 The pattern-matching approach
2.3 Promising results
3. Material
3.1 Manual annotation
3.2 Feature extraction
3.3 Cleaning the text
3.4 The gold standard
4. Overview of our final approach
5. Our approach in detail
5.1 Hypothesis
5.2 De ning categories
5.3 Tools
5.4 Programming and experimenting
6. Data and experimental evaluation
6.1 Measuring inter-annotator agreement
6.2 Possible sources of error
7. Results
8. Conclusions and future work
References
A data-driven approach to anglicism identification in Norwegian
1. Introduction
2. Background
2.1 Anglicisms
2.2 Modelling anglicisms computationally
2.3 A machine learning approach to anglicisms
3. Methodology
3.1 Machine learning algorithm: TiMBL
3.2 Lexical data
3.4 Building training vectors
3.5 Trigrams and frequencies
4. Experiments and results
4.1 Simple frequency
4.2 Productivity
4.3 Automatic feature selection
4.4 Discussion of the results
5. Future work
Reference
part ii Corpus-based case studies
A corpus-based study of the adaptation of English import words in Norwegian
1. Introduction
2. Concepts and terminology
3. Previous research on norwegification
4. Inventory, data and methods
4.1 The three datasets
4.2 The Corpuscle interface to the Norwegian Newspaper Corpus
4.3 Step-by-step analysis
5. Degree of norwegification in the three datasets
5.1 Overall results for the three datasets
5.2 A more detailed look at the words from the 1997 spelling reform
5.3 Degree of norwegification of words from the 2004 spelling reform
5.4 Degree of unsolicited norwegification
6. Towards an analysis of factors affecting the variation between N/E forms
6.1 Complexity of the orthographic change
6.2 Collocations
6.3 Morphology
6.4 Homography
6.5 Semantic factors
7. Concluding remarks
References
Norm clusters in written Norwegian
1. Introduction
2. A pilot study
3. The texts
4. Data extraction and processing
5. Case I: Feminine nouns in Bokmål
5.1 Correspondence analysis
5.2 Implication analysis
6. Case II: Weak verbs in Bokmål
7. Case III: Infinitives in Nynorsk
7.1 Correspondence analysis
7.2 Implication analysis
8. Conclusion
References
Lexical neography in modern Norwegian
1. Introduction
2. What is a lexical neologism
2.1 Neoformatives
2.2 Neosemanticisms
2.3 Neophrasemes
2.4 A new definition of neologisms
3. Neologisms as a transitional phenomenon
4. How are new words coined?
5. Why do we need new words?
6. Previous registration of neologisms in Norwegian
7. Statistical studies of neologisms in modern Norwegian
7.1 Manual evaluation of the automatically generated new word candidates
7.2 Semiautomatic retrieval of neologisms from the Norweian Newspaper Corpus
7.3 Results and discussion
8. Conclusion and further work
References
Ash compound frenzy
1. Introduction
2. Data, method and results
2.1 Selection and preparation of material
2.2 Selection of time frame
2.3 Quantitative analysis
3. Discussion
3.1 Remarks on the empirical and quantitative methods
3.2 Linguistic remarks on specific compounds
References
4. Appendices
4.1 Frequency list exclusive of hapax legomena
4.2 New words on April 14-15
4.3 Type and token frequencies per date
Financial jargon in a general newspaper corpus
1. Introduction
2. Background
3. Methodology
3.1 Corpus material and selection of financial jargon
3.2 Investigating the influence of English loan words
4. Results and discussion
4.1 The concepts of financial crisis and credit crunch
4.2 The concept of subprime and related concepts
4.3 The concept of hedge fund
4.4 A note on the use of acronyms
4.5 Inflectional forms
5. Concluding remarks
References
Appendix I
Metonymic extension and vagueness
1. Introduction
2. Theoretical framework
2.1 Metonymic categories and the ambiguity/vagueness cline
2.2 Domains and dimensions in metonymy
3. Material and method
3.1 Material
3.2 Method
4. Results and discussion
4.1 Results
4.2 Discussion
5. Concluding remarks
References
Spatial metaphors in present-day Norwegian newspaper language
1. Introduction
2. Cognitive views on language
3. The up/down schema in Norwegian newspaper language
3.1 The up dimension
3.1.1 Høy/høyere
3.1.2 Stige and løfte
3.1.3 Summary
3.2 The down dimension
3.2.1 Lav/lavere
3.2.2 Synke/senke
3.2.3 Summary
4. Conclusion
References
Doing historical linguistics using contemporary data
1. Introduction
2. Stage theory
3. Deverbal nouns, prototypes and diachronic paths
4. Methods and data
4.1 Using a synchronic corpus only
5. Using older texts from the corpus
6. Concluding remarks
References
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