Corpora and historical linguistics

Corpora for computational linguistics 1 Running head : CORPORA FOR COMPUTATIONAL LINGUISTICS Corpora for computational linguistics

Since the mid 90s corpora has become very important for computational linguistics. This paper offers a survey of how they are currently used in different fields of the discipline, with particular emphasis on anaphora and coreference resolution, automatic summarisation and term extraction. Their influence on other fields is also briefly discussed. Corpora for computational linguistics 3 Corpora ...

Contrastive Linguistics and Corpora

Historical Linguistics

One remarkably striking observation about language, seemingly trivial but actually quite important, is that languages change through time. It is at least conceivable that language could remain unchanged over time, as is the case with some other human institutions, e.g. various tabus or the rules to come games, and with some aspects of human communication systems, e.g. Morse Code or the value of...

Parsed Corpora for Linguistics

Knowledge-based parsers are now accurate, fast and robust enough to be used to obtain syntactic annotations for very large corpora fully automatically. We argue that such parsed corpora are an interesting new resource for linguists. The argument is illustrated by means of a number of recent results which were established with the help of parsed corpora.

Historical Linguistics and Cognitive Science

In this paper we investigate possible links between historical linguistics and cognitive science, or theory of the mind. Our primary goal is to demonstrate that historically documented processes of a certain type, i.e. those relating to semantic change and grammaticalization, form a unified theoretical bundle which gives insight into the cognitive processes at work in language organization and ...