Re: [Corpora-List] neologism finder tools

From: Eric Atwell (eric@comp.leeds.ac.uk)
Date: Thu Jun 12 2003 - 16:07:59 MET DST

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    Sylvana,
    A problem with "retrieving new words in a corpus" is: "new" with respect
    to what? You can easily find all words in a corpus with only one (or
    two..) occurrences, which makes them "rare"; but "new" implies
    your corpus builds on a larger monitor corpus tracking the language over
    time. As I understand it, AVIATOR/APRIL is not just software for a
    static corpus but infrastructure for processing a (large) monitor corpus.
    Is this what you have?

    Eric Atwell

    On Thu, 12 Jun 2003, krausse wrote:

    > Dear colleagues,
    >
    > In Lynne Bowker's and Jennifer Pearson's book "Working with Specialized
    > Corpora" neologism finder tools like the ones used in the AVIATOR/APRIL
    > project are mentioned.
    >
    > I wonder whether there are any free or commercial programs available or
    > how other people go about retrieving new words in a corpus.
    >
    > Many thanks in advance,
    >
    > Sylvana Krausse
    >

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