Anglophonia-SIGMA N°28. English Linguistics

English Corpus Linguistics An Introduction

Computational linguistics beyond the processing of English

Processing of the English language is overwhelmingly mainstream in computational linguistics. This text claims that this situation is neither healthy for computational linguistics nor theoretically tenable.

Applied Linguistics and English Language Teaching

The aim of the present investigation is to examine applied linguistics and english language teaching. Many resent researches concerned with applied linguistics have led to a phenomenon to resolve language problems in general and in particular english language. In general, language phenomenon is complex. Finegan and Besiner defined language as a finite system of elements and principles that make...

Cambridge Handbook of English Corpus Linguistics

The growing interest in corpus linguistics methods in the 1970s and 1980s was largely enabled by the increased power of computers and the use of computational methods to store and process language samples. Before this, even simple methods for studying language such as extracting a list of all the different words in a text and their immediate contexts was incredibly time consuming and costly in ...

Statistical clustering techniques in historical English linguistics

ed 1 0 1 0 0 0 0 ... ... ... ... ... ... ... ... The information in Table 2 can be used to measure similarity between adjacent periods: Each period is represented not by a single frequency value but in fact by a vector of frequency values for the past participles; relative similarity between adjacent periods can be computed with a statistic such as Pearson's correlation r. The first step of VNC...