Computer Corpus Lexicography

by Ooi, Vincent B. Y.

• ISBN13: 9780748608157
• ISBN10: 074860815X
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 1998-02-10
• Publisher: Edinburgh University Press

Summary

This book introduces the reader to the changing notions of the lexicon and dictionary-making, using a convergence of perspectives from computational linguistics, corpus linguistics, and computational lexicography/lexicology. The main issues include: the relation between lexicon and corpus; corpus-based lexical modelling of language; the computational storage of the lexicon. From this, the book constructs and applies a framework for lexicon-building to a case study. It also stresses the importance of the Internet and World Wide Web for dictionary research and study.

Table of Contents

Acknowledgements
Abbreviations
What is Computer Corpus Lexicography (CCL)?	p. 1
The lexicon in Computational Linguistics (CL1), Computational Lexicography (CL2), and Corpus Linguistics (CL3)	p. 23
Corpus evidence and lexicon-based language modelling	p. 47
Methods of lexical acquisition: 'Learning' a lexicon for real texts from real text	p. 67
Computational storage of the lexicon	p. 91
A case study: Applying the LFA framework to two corpora of business English	p. 123
Conclusion: Towards a more adequate concept of the lexicon	p. 173
Specimen lexical entries	p. 177
Some World Wide Web sites for CL1, CL2, and CL3	p. 211
Suggested solutions to exercises	p. 215
Bibliography	p. 219
Index	p. 241
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