Large and open multiparallel corpora are a valuable resource for contrastive corpus linguists if the data is annotated and stored in a way that allows precise and flexible ad hoc searches. A linguistic query language should also support computational linguists in automated multilingual data mining. We review a broad range of approaches for linguistic query and reporting languages according to u...

1.0 Introduction The World Wide Web is rapidly becoming the primary source for disseminating data on the world’s languages. Language researchers, linguists and language communities are regularly posting a variety of language data to the Web, including lexicons, teaching materials, language recordings and transcriptions, language descriptions, and grammars. Also posted in large quantities are sc...

First, a very useful searching engine, Key Word in Context (KWIC), is introduced. This tool can automatically extract linguistically significant patterns from large corpora and help linguists discover syntagmatic generalizations. Second, Dynamic Clustering and Hierarchical Clustering are introduced for identifying natural clusters of words or phrases in distribution. Third, statistical measures...