Preface
Acknowledgements
List of Abbreviations
Contents
Introduction by Dwijesh Dutta Majumder
1. Towards aNew Direction
1 . 1 Introduction
1.2 The New Turn
1 .3 Language Technology: A New Possibility
1.4 Language and Computers: A New League
1.5 Computational Linguists: A New Species
1 .6 The Reign of English
1.7 The Indian Scenario
1 .8 Indian Language Corpora
Endnotes
2. Definition and Features of a Corpus
2.1 Introduction
2.2 What is a Corpus?
2.3 Features of a Corpus
2.3.1 Quantity
2.3.2 Quality
2.3.3 Representativeness
2.3.4 Simplicity
2.3.5 Equality
2.3.6 Retrievability
2.3.7 Verifiability
2.3.8 Augmentation
2.3.9 Documentation
2.3.10 Management
Endnotes
3. Corpus Typology: Part One
3.1 Introduction
3.2 Why Classify Corpora?
3.3 Genre of Text
3.3.1 Written Corpus
3.3.2 Speech Corpus
3.3.3 Spoken Corpus
3.3.4 Text Corpus vs. Speech Corpus
3.4 Nature of Data
3.4.1 General Corpus
3.4.2 Special Corpus
3.4.3 Controlled Language Corpus
3.4.4 Sub language Corpus
3.4.5 Sample Corpus
3.4.6 Monitor Corpus
3.4.7 Multimodal Corpus
Endnotes
4. Corpus Typology: Part Two
4.1 Introduction
4.2 Type of Text
4.2.1 Monolingual Corpus
4.2.2 Bilingual Corpus
4.2.3 Multilingual Corpus
4.3 Purpose of Design
4.3.1 Unannotated Corpus
4.3.2 Annotated Corpus
4.4 Nature of Application
4.4.1 Parallel Corpus
4.4.2 Translation Corpus
4.4.3 Aligned Corpus
4.4.4 Comparable Corpus
4.4.5 Reference Corpus
4.4.6 Learner Corpus
4.4.7 Opportunistic Corpus
Endnote
5. Corpus in Language Technology and Linguistics
5.1 Introduction
5.2 Corpus in Language Technology
5.3 Corpus in the Lexicological Study of Words
5.4 Corpus in the Study of Word Meanings
5.5 Corpus in Sociolinguistics
5.6 Corpus in Psycholinguistics
5.7 Corpus in the Stylistic Study of Texts
5.8 Corpus in Technical Terms Selection
Endnotes
6. Corpus in Applied Linguistics
6.1 Introduction
6.2 Corpus in Dictionary Making
6.3 Corpus in Grammar Writing
6.4 Corpus in Language Teaching
6.5 Corpus in Dialect Study
6.6 Potential Corpus Users
Endnotes
7. Limitations of Language Corpus
7.1 Introduction
7.2 Limitation in Generative Quality
7.3 Limitation in Balanced Text Representation
7.4 Limitation in Technical Efficiency
7.5 Supremacy of Written Texts over Spoken Texts
7.6 Absence of Texts from Dialogic Interaction
7.7 Absence of Pictorial Elements
7.8 Lack of Samples from Poetic Texts
7.9 Other Limitations
Endnotes
Bibl iography
Index
About the Author