as a member of larger familyof formulaic sequences , lexical bundles play different discourse functions in written research articles. this study investigated the use of four-word lexical bundles in published research articles in medicine via natural language processing by computational linguistics. a corpus of 2,420,914 words was extracted from 790 research articles in 33 medical disciplines. f...

In light of the understanding that the analysis of the generic features of different academic genres can enhance the ability of non-native members of academic discourse communities to understand, and where appropriate, to produce them, the present study aimed at investigating the dominant generic structure of research articles in mathematics. To start with a relatively narrow focus, a corpus of...

In this paper, we give results on our recent study on Chinese person names. The analysis is based on a corpus of 1 million names. The results include the syllable lengths and surname composition of the names in the corpus, full name and given name statistic results and analysis, tonal pattern analysis of Chinese full and given names, and name confusion analysis when given number of names are ex...