Linguistics & Language · Computational Linguistics

Corpus Linguistics

A topic within Computational Linguistics, itself one of 8 topics in that field and part of Linguistics & Language.

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Report1964

A Standard Sample of Present-Day Edited American English, for Use with Digital Computers

W. Nelson Francis

Describes the compilation of the Brown Corpus, a million-word sample of edited prose built to a fixed sampling design, establishing the electronic corpus as a reusable, shared object for studying a language empirically.

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Paper1990

Word Association Norms, Mutual Information, and Lexicography

Kenneth Ward Church & Patrick Hanks

Argues word association strength can be measured objectively from corpus co-occurrence statistics using mutual information, replacing a lexicographer's intuitive judgement of collocation with a repeatable count over text.

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Reading on Corpus Linguistics

A Standard Sample of Present-Day Edited American English, for Use with Digital Computers

Word Association Norms, Mutual Information, and Lexicography

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