Research Catalog

Title

Meaningful texts : the extraction of semantic information from monolingual and multilingual corpora / edited by Geoff Barnbrook, Pernilla Danielsson, and Michaela Mahlberg.

Publication

London ; New York : Continuum, 2005.

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Details

Additional Authors

• Barnbrook, Geoff.
• Danielsson, Pernilla.
• Mahlberg, Michaela.

Description

ix, 230 pages : illustrations; 24 cm.

Summary

"This book reflects the growing influence of corpus linguistics in a variety of areas such as lexicography, translation studies, genre analysis and language teaching." "Presenting fascinating research in the field, this book will be of interest to academics researching the importance of corpus linguistics in modern linguistic studies and the applications of corpus linguistics."--BOOK JACKET.

Series Statement

Corpus and discourse. Research in corpus and discourse

Uniform Title

Corpus and discourse. Research in corpus and discourse

Subject

• Semantics > Data processing
• Translating and interpreting > Data processing
• Lingüística
• Lingüística computacional
• Lexicologia
• Semântica
• Semantik

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references and index.

Contents

Extracting concepts from dynamic legislative text collections / Gaël Dias, Sara Madeira and José Gabriel Pereira Lopes -- A diachronic genre corpus : problems and findings from the DIALAYMED-corpus (DIAchronic multilingual corpus of LAYman-oriented MEDical texts) / Eva Martha Eckkrammer -- Word meaning in dictionaries, corpora and the speaker's mind / Christiane Fellbaum [and others] -- Extracting meaning from text / Gregory Grefenstette -- Translators at work : a case study of electronic tools used by translators in industry / Riitta Jääskeläinen and Anna Mauranen -- Extracting meteorological contexts from the newspaper corpus of Slovenian / Primož Jakopin -- The Hungarian possibility suffix -hat/-het as a dictionary entry / Ferenc Kiefer -- Dictionaries, corpora and word-formation / Simon Krek, Vojko Gorjanc and Marko Stabej -- Hidden culture : using the British National Corpus with language learners to investigate collocational behaviour, wordplay and culture-specific references / Dominic Stewart -- Language as an economic factor : the importance of terminology / Wolfgang Teubert -- Lemmatization and collocational analysis of Lithuanian nouns / Andrius Utka -- Challenging the native-speaker norm : a corpus-driven analysis of scientific usage / Geoffrey Williams -- Chinese-English translation database : extracting units of translation from parallel texts / Chang Baobao, Pernilla Danielsson and Wolfgang Teubert -- Abstract noun collocations : their nature in a parallel English-Czech corpus / František Čermák -- Parallel corpora and translation studies : old questions, new perspectives? Reporting that in Gepcolt : a case study / Dorothy Kenny -- Structural derivation and meaning extraction : a comparative study of French/Serbo-Croatian parallel texts / Cvetana Krstev and Duško Vitas -- Noun collocations from a multilingual perspective / Rūta Marcinkevičienė -- Studies of English-Latvian legal texts for machine translation / Inguna Skadin̦a -- The applicability of lemmatization in translation equivalents detection / Marko Tadić, Sanja Fulgosi and Krešimir Šojat -- Cognates : free rides, false friends or stylistic devices? A corpus-based comparative study / Špela Vintar and Silvia Hansen-Schirra -- Trilingual corpus and its use for the teaching of reading comprehension in French / Xu Xunfeng and Régis Kawecki.

ISBN

• 082647490X
• 9780826474902

LCCN

2005045411

OCLC

• ocm58599970
• 58599970
• SCSB-8812178

Owning Institutions

Princeton University Library