Corpora and the changing society : studies in the evolution of English /
библиография

Цифровые и тематические книжные коллекции издания

Содержание

  • Intro -- Corpora and the Changing Society -- Editorial page -- Title page -- Copyright page -- Table of contents -- Acknowledgements -- Introduction: Corpora and the changing society -- Part I. Changing society -- The great temptation: What diachronic corpora do and do not reveal about social change -- 1. Introduction -- 2. Five pitfalls in the analysis of diachronic corpus data -- 2.1 Corpus frequencies (semasiological frequencies) are not always equivalent to frequencies of entities and events in the real world (onomasiological frequencies)
  • 2.2 Corpus frequencies of polysemous words need to be broken down into sense-specific and construction-specific frequencies -- 2.3 Correlations in large datasets may be spurious -- 2.4 Comparisons of frequency trends in diachronic corpora require adequate statistical treatment -- 2.5 It is not always easy to disentangle social change and linguistic change -- 3. Giving in to temptation: A case study of the English make-causative -- 3.1 The English make-causative construction -- 3.2 Corpus data and descriptive statistics
  • 3.3 Using distributional semantics to study the development of the make-causative -- 3.4 Discussion -- 4. Conclusions -- References -- Corpora -- Other references -- Changes in society and language: Charting poverty -- 1. Introduction -- 2. Data and pre-processing -- 2.1 The EEBO Collection as sampler corpus -- 2.2 The CLMET3.0 corpus -- 2.3 The pre-processing step of spelling normalization -- 3. Methods -- 3.1 Data-based and data-driven approaches -- 3.2 Document classification -- 3.3 Topic modelling -- 3.4 Conceptual maps -- 4. Results and discussion -- 4.1 Dictionary-based approach
  • 4.2 Topic modelling -- 4.3 Conceptual maps -- 5. Conclusions -- References -- Corpora and software -- Other references -- Finding evidence for a changing society: A collocational study of medical discourse in 1500-1800 -- 1. Introduction -- 2. Background -- 3. Materials and method -- 4. Results -- 4.1 The Corpus of Early Modern English Medical Texts (1500-1700) -- 4.2 The Corpus of Late Modern English Medical Texts (1700-1800) -- 5. Discussion -- 6. Conclusion -- References -- Corpora and software -- Other references
  • Semantic neology: Challenges in matching corpus-based semantic change to real-world change -- 1. Introduction -- 2. Data and methods -- 2.1 Data and tools -- 2.2 Tracking the neosemes -- 3. Case studies -- 3.1 Case study 1: Birther -- 3.2 Case study 2: Normalisation -- 3.3 Case study 3: Cougar -- 3.4 Case study 4: Snowflake -- 3.5 Case study 5: Ghosting -- 4. Discussion -- 4.1 Challenges -- 4.2 Measures shown to allow or enhance system performance -- 4.3 Sociolinguistic insights gained in the study -- 5. Conclusion -- References -- Corpora and tools -- Other references

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