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1、LinguisticResearch30(2),141-161Acriticallookatsoftwaretoolsincorpuslinguistics*1LaurenceAnthony(WasedaUniversity)Anthony,Laurence.2013.Acriticallookatsoftwaretoolsincorpuslinguistics.LinguisticResearch30(2),141-161.Corporaareoftenreferredtoasthe‘tools’ofcorpuslinguistics.However,itisimportanttorecog
2、nizethatcorporaaresimplylinguisticdataandthatspecializedsoftwaretoolsarerequiredtoviewandanalyzethem.Thefunctionalityofferedbysoftwaretoolslargelydictateswhatcorpuslinguisticsresearchmethodsareavailabletoaresearcher,andhence,thedesignoftoolswillbecomeanincreasinglyimportantfactorascorporabecomelarge
3、randthestatisticalanalysisoflinguisticdatabecomesincreasinglycomplex.Inthispaper,Iwillfirstdiscusshowseparatingthedatafromthetoolsresolvesvariousissuesthatarehotlydebatedwithinthefield.Next,Iwillofferacriticallookatthedevelopmentoffourgenerationsofcorpustools,discussingtheirstrengthsandweaknesses.Th
4、en,Iwilldiscusstheroleofprogrammingincorpuslinguisticstoolscreationandpresentamodelforthedevelopmentoffuturecorpustools.Finally,Iwillshowareal-worldexampleofanext-generationcorpustoolthatwasdevelopedforuseinlanguagelearning.(WasedaUniversity)Keywordscorpuslinguistics,softwaretools,history,future,pro
5、gramming1.IntroductionCorpuslinguisticsisanappliedlinguisticsapproachthathasbecomeoneofthedominantmethodsusedtoanalyzelanguagetoday.Biberetal.(1998)describecorpuslinguisticsashavingfourmainfeatures;1)itisanempirical(experiment-based)approachinwhichpatternsoflanguageusethatareobservedinreallanguagete
6、xts(spokenandwritten)areanalyzed,2)itusesarepresentativesampleofthetargetlanguagestoredasanelectronicdatabase(acorpus)asthebasisfortheanalysis,3)itreliesoncomputersoftwaretocountlinguisticspatternsaspartofthe*ThispaperisanextendedversionofaplenaryspeechpresentedattheInternationalConferenceofKoreaAss
7、ociationofCorpusLinguistics(KACL2012),PusanNationalUniversity,Pusan,Korea.Theauthorgratefullyacknowledgesthecommentsofthetworeviewers.142LaurenceAnthonyanalysis,and4)itdependsonbothquantitativeandqual
