Developing Linguistic Corpora- a Guide to Good Practice

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1、DevelopingLinguisticCorpora:aGuidetoGoodPracticeEditedbyMartinWynneContentPrefaceMartinWynne(AHDSLiterature,LanguagesandLinguistics,UniversityofOxford,UK)Chapter1CorpusandText:BasicPrinciplesJohnSinclair(TuscanWordCentre)Chapter2AddingLinguisticAnnotationGeoffreyLeech(LancasterUniversity)Cha

2、pter3MetadataforCorpusWorkLouBurnard(UniversityofOxford)Chapter4CharacterEncodinginCorpusConstructionAnthonyMcEneryandRichardXiao(LancasterUniversity)Chapter5SpokenLanguageCorporaPaulThompson(UniversityofReading)Chapter6Archiving,DistributionandPreservationMartinWynne(UniversityofOxford)Appe

3、ndixtochapterone:HowtomakeacorpusJohnSinclair(TuscanWordCentre)BibliographyDevelopingLinguisticCorpora:aGuidetoGoodPracticePrefaceMartinWynneAlinguisticcorpusisacollectionoftextswhichhavebeenselectedandbroughttogethersothatlanguagecanbestudiedonthecomputer.Today,corpuslinguisticsofferssomeof

4、themostpowerfulnewproceduresfortheanalysisoflanguage,andtheimpactofthisdynamicandexpandingsub-disciplineismakingitselffeltinmanyareasoflanguagestudy.Inthisvolume,aselectionofleadingexpertsinvariouskeyareasofcorpusconstructionofferadviceinareadableandlargelynon-technicalstyletohelpthereaderto

5、ensurethattheircorpusiswelldesignedandfitfortheintendedpurpose.ThisGuideisaimedatthosewhoareatsomestageofbuildingalinguisticcorpus.Littleornoknowledgeofcorpuslinguisticsorcomputationalproceduresisassumed,althoughitishopedthatmoreadvanceduserswillalsofindtheguidelineshereuseful.Italsohasrelev

6、anceforthosewhoarenotbuildingacorpus,butwhoneedtoknowsomethingabouttheissuesinvolvedinthedesignofcorporainordertochoosebetweenavailableresourcesandtohelpdrawconclusionsfromtheiranalysis.Increasingnumbersofresearchersareseeingthepotentialbenefitsoftheuseofanelectroniccorpusasasourceofempirica

7、llanguagedatafortheirresearch.Untilnow,wheredidtheyfindoutabouthowtobuildacorpus?Thereisagreatdealofusefulinformationavailablewhichcoversprinciplesofcorpusdesignanddevelopment,butitisdispersedinhandbooks,reports,monographs,journalarticlesandsometim