Labelling data is one of the most fundamental activities in science, and has underpinned practice, particularly medicine, for decades, as well research corpus linguistics since at least d

The Methods section is a key component of any ecology research publication containing detailed information on how the data were collected and analyzed. However, descriptions which statistical methods used they applied can substantially vary may not provide enough for analyses to be reproducible. Computational programming advances have allowed ecological researchers without strong or mathematica...

" Statistical methods " refers here specifically to statistical methods in computational linguistics. This represents a new body of practice in computational linguistics that has become standard over the last decade.