Creating and Digitizing Language Corpora
. Ed(S): Corrigan, Karen P.; Mearns, Adam
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Hardback. Editor(s): Corrigan, Karen P.; Mearns, Adam. Num Pages: 386 pages, 43 black & white illustrations, 9 colour illustrations, 10 black & white tables, biograph. BIC Classification: CFX. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 210 x 148 x 26. Weight in Grams: 632.
This book unites a range of approaches to the collection and digitization of diverse language corpora. Its specific focus is on best practices identified in the exploitation of these resources in landmark impact initiatives across different parts of the globe. The development of increasingly accessible digital corpora has coincided with improvements in the standards governing the collection, encoding and archiving of ‘Big Data’. Less attention has been paid to the importance of developing standards for enriching and preserving other types of corpus data, such as that which captures the nuances of regional dialects, for example. This book takes these best ... Read more
This book unites a range of approaches to the collection and digitization of diverse language corpora. Its specific focus is on best practices identified in the exploitation of these resources in landmark impact initiatives across different parts of the globe. The development of increasingly accessible digital corpora has coincided with improvements in the standards governing the collection, encoding and archiving of ‘Big Data’. Less attention has been paid to the importance of developing standards for enriching and preserving other types of corpus data, such as that which captures the nuances of regional dialects, for example. This book takes these best ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2016
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
Number of pages
386
Condition
New
Number of Pages
359
Place of Publication
Basingstoke, United Kingdom
ISBN
9781137386441
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V9781137386441
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About . Ed(S): Corrigan, Karen P.; Mearns, Adam
Karen P. Corrigan is Professor of Linguistics and English Language at Newcastle University. She has previously lectured at University College, Dublin and the Universities of Edinburgh and York (UK). She co-edited the two previous volumes in this collection and is author of Irish English, Volume 1: Northern Ireland (2010). Adam Mearns is Lecturer in the History of the English Language ... Read more
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