Corpus Linguistics in Legal Discourse

Corpus Linguistics: Quantitative Methods

p. 1, par. 2: Until relatively recently, however, words and syntactic patterns, or constructions, were treated on a par not only theoretically, but also empirically. → It is only since recently, however, that words and syntactic patterns, or constructions, are treated on a par not only theoretically, but also empirically. p. 1, first bullet: how much does give prefer to occur in the ditransitiv...

Machine Translation - Corpus Linguistics

Due to the importance of communication between two or more people, companies, or even nations, the need for good translators has long been obvious around the world, and since humans are faulty, it is not surprising that many attempts to automate the process of translation have been made throughout history. This is called machine translation. Corpus linguistics, a branch of the machine translati...

Lexicography and Corpus Linguistics

What is Corpus Linguistics?

Corpus linguistics is one of the fastest-growing methodologies in contemporary linguistics. In a conversational format, this article answers a few questions that corpus linguists regularly face from linguists who have not used corpus-based methods so far. It discusses some of the central assumptions (‘formal distributional differences reflect functional differences’), notions (corpora, represen...

Computer Assisted Legal Linguistics (CAL2)

We introduce Computer Assisted Legal Linguistics (CAL2) as a semiautomated method to “make sense” of legal discourse by systematically analyzing large collections of legal texts. Such digital corpora have been increasingly used in computational linguistics in recent years, as part of a quantitative research strategy designed to complement (rather than supplant) the more qualitative methods used...