Gender differences in language use have long been of interest in linguistics. The task of automatic gender attribution has been considered in computational linguistics as well. Most research of this type is done using (usually English) texts with authorship metadata. In this paper, we propose a new method of male/female corpus creation based on gender-specific first-person expressions. The meth...

Book review: Contemporary Corpus Linguistics, Paul Baker (Editor), Continuum, 2012, Print ISBN 9781441181336, 368 pp.

Finnish corpus linguistics and computer linguistics generally has an ancient tradition, which gives it authority in the world community and has produced solid results in various areas. The first projects for electronic corpuses appeared in the 1960s, as in many other countries [1, 2]. From the start, this line in Finland was closely related to the writing of original computer programs for proce...

This paper proposes a new approach to construction of rule bases for the transferredbased machine translation. In our approach, the rule bases are constructed in combination of the linguistics knowledge and large scale of corpora. On the one hand the lexical knowledge, the syntactic knowledge and the semantic knowledge are all used in the rules. on the other hand the knowledge is used for the s...

Three classifiers from machine learning (the generalized linear mixed model, memory based learning, and support vector machines) are compared with a naive discriminative learning classifier, derived from basic principles of error-driven learning characterizing animal and human learning. Tested on the dative alternation in English, using the Switchboard data from (Bresnan, Cueni, Nikitina, & Baa...

Book synopsis This book presents a richly illustrated, hands-on discussion of one of the fastest growing fields in linguistics today. The authors address key methodological issues in corpus linguistics, such as collocations, keywords and the categorization of concordance lines. They show how these topics can be explored step-by-step with BNCweb, a user-friendly web-based tool that supports soph...