Computer Corpus Lexicography
1st Edition
Published on 6. August 2019
224 pages
978-1-4744-7145-9 (ISBN)
Description
This book introduces the reader to the changing notions of the lexicon and dictionary-making, using a convergence of perspectives from computational linguistics, corpus linguistics, and computational lexicography/lexicology. The main issues include: the relation between lexicon and corpus; corpus-based lexical modelling of language; the computational storage of the lexicon. From this, the book constructs and applies a framework for lexicon-building to a case study. It also stresses the importance of the Internet and World Wide Web for dictionary research and study.
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Vincent B. Y. Ooi
Computer Corpus Lexicography
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02/1998
Edinburgh University Press
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Content
- Intro
- Contents
- Acknowledgements
- Abbreviations
- 1 What is Computer Corpus Lexicography?
- 1.0 Introduction
- 1.1 Developing Notions of the Lexicon
- 1.1.1 The trend towards lexicalism
- 1.1.2 The word vs the clause as the most basic unit inn linguistics
- 1.2 Lexical content
- 1.2.1 Characterisations of lexical content
- 1.2.2 Hudson's All-Inclusive Lexicon
- 1.2.3 The TEI Lexicon
- 1.3 Lexical form
- 1.4 Conclusion and organisation of this book
- 1.5 Study questions
- 1.6 Further reading
- Notes
- 2 The lexicon in Computational Linguistics (CL1), Computational Lexicography (CL2), and Corpus Linguistics (CL3)
- 2.0 Introduction
- 2.1 What is Computational Linguistics (CL1)?
- 2.1.1 The lexicon in CL1
- 2.2 What is Computational Lexicography (CL2)?
- 2.2.1 Human consumption vs machine-use
- 2.2.2 The lexicon in CL2
- 2.3 What is Corpus Linguistics (CL3)?
- 2.3.1 The lexicon in CL3
- 2.4 The Interdependence and Convergence of CL1, CL2, CL3
- 2.5 The TEI for the emergence of textual and lexical standards
- 2.6 The notions of the reusability of lexical resources
- 2.7 The core-reusable multifunctional lexicon
- 2.8 The polytheoretical lexicon
- 2.9 Conclusion
- 2.10 Study questions
- 2.11 Further reading
- Notes
- 3 Corpus evidence and lexicon-based language modelling
- 3.0 Introduction
- 3.1 Types of lexicographic and lexical evidence
- 3.2 The corpus as a lexical resource: the issue of representativeness
- 3.3 Corpus size and the 'Bank of English'
- 3.4 The search for units of meaning
- 3.5 Conclusion
- 3.6 Study Questions
- 3.7 Further reading
- Notes
- 4 Methods of lexical acquistion: 'Learning' a lexicon for real texts from real texts
- 4.0 Introduction
- 4.1 The relation between the lexicon and the corpus
- 4.2 Manual lexical acquisition
- 4.3 Automatic and semi-automatic lexical acquistion
- 4.4 The lexicographer/linguist's workbench for lexical acquistion
- 4.5 A framework for lexical analysis
- 4.6 Conclusion
- 4.7 Study questions
- 4.8 Further readings
- Notes
- 5. Computational storage of the lexicon
- 5.0 Introduction
- 5.1 The question of formalism
- 5.2 Lexical database vs lexical knowledge base?
- 5.3 The notion of inheritance
- 5.4 The DATR lexical knowledge representation language
- 5.5 The ACQUILEX lexical knowledge base
- 5.6 The PROLEX Prolog lexical database
- 5.7 The WORDNET Lexical database of English
- 5.8 The CELEX lexical database
- 5.8.1 THE CELEX English lexical database
- 5.8.2. The structure of the CELEX English database
- 5.8.3 Accessing the database
- 5.8.4 Selected lexemes using the CELEX linguistic codes
- 5.8.5 General comments on the CELEX database
- 5.9 Using the World Wide Web for lexical research
- 5.10 Conclusion
- 5.11 Study questions
- 5.12 Further reading
- Notes
- 6 A case study: Applying the LFA framework to two corpora of business English
- 6.0 Introduction
- 6.1 The notion of sublanguage, genre and register
- 6.2 The PROLEX corpus
- 6.2.1 The PROLEX lexicon
- 6.3 The PROCOMPARE corpus
- 6.3.1 The PROCOMPARE lexicon
- 6.4 Corpus tagging
- 6.5 Corpus syntactic parsing
- 6.6 Corpus word-extraction
- 6.7 Corpus collocation
- 6.8 Corpus semantic tagging and parsing
- 6.9 Corpus pragmatics
- 6.9.1 The COCOA format for referencing the PROLEX corpus
- 6.9.2 Extraction of typological frequency from the PROLEX corpus
- 6.10 Structuring lexical entries from the PROLEX and PROCOMPARE corpora
- 6.10.1 Morphology
- 6.10.2 Syntax
- 6.10.3 Semantics
- 6.10.4 Pragmatics
- 6.11 A discussion of the PROLEX and PROCOMPARE specimen lexical entries
- 6.11.1 Account (n)
- 6.11.2 Advise (v)
- 6.11.3 Appreciate (v)
- 6.11.4 Claim (v, n)
- 6.11.5 Full (adj)
- 6.11.6 Please (adv)
- 6.11.7 Regret (v)
- 6.11.8 Shipment (n)
- 6.11.9 The relatedness of information
- 6.11.10 Making the LFA lexicon more compact
- 6.12 Conclusion
- 6.13 Study questions
- 6.14 Further reading
- Notes
- 7 Conclusion: Towards a more adequate concept of the lexicon
- Appendix A: Specimen lexical entries
- Appendix B: Some World Wide Web sites for CL1, CL2, CL3
- Appendix C: Suggested solution to exercises
- Bibliography
- Index
