Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Introduction
  • Computer corpora in English language research
  • Probabilistic grammatical analysis
  • An analysis of probabilistic grammatical tagging methods
  • Running a grammar factory: The production of syntactically analysed corpora or “treebanksâ€?
  • Probabilistic parsing in the COMMUNAL project
  • Syntax
  • On the exploration of corpus data by means of problem-oriented tagging: Postmodifying clauses in the English noun phrase
  • Quantitative or qualitative corpus analysis? Infinitival complement clauses in the Survey of English Usage corpus
  • Lexis
  • Automatic parsing meets the wallPolysemy and vagueness of meaning descriptions in the Longman dictionary of contemporary English
  • Speech
  • Amplifier collocations in spoken English
  • Prosodic labelling: The problem of tone group boundaries
  • A study of up-arrows in the Lancaster/IBM Spoken English Corpus
  • Regional/social variation
  • Will and shall in Australian English
  • The grammatical subject in educated and dialectal English: Comparing the London-Lund Corpus and the Helsinki Corpus of Modern English Dialects
  • The Kolhapur Corpus of Indian English â€? intravarietal description and/or intervarietal comparisonSpecialised corpora
  • The compilation of a Danish-English-French corpus in contract law
  • Swedish TEFL meets reality
  • Software
  • Doing corpus work with PC Beta; or, how to be your own computational linguist
  • Concordance programs for personal computers
  • Corpora and dictionaries in multiline records: A Unix/Awk approach to home-made text retrieval
  • Reference section
  • A survey of English machine-readable corpora