RE: [Corpora-List] diachronic corpus tool

From: Antoinette Renouf (Antoinette.Renouf@uce.ac.uk)
Date: Mon Nov 08 2004 - 01:06:07 MET

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    Dear Chris and Angelo
    To query 1:
    Assuming you are interested in constructing tools for the analysis of modern language, I would refer you to the publication details and demos of diachronic tools on the web-site of the Research and Development Unit for English Studies, University of Central England in Birmingham, at http://rdues.uce.ac.uk/. Our tools analyse change across time (15 years) in terminology, word meaning and use, morphology, the structure of the lexicon, sense relations and topic/aboutness.
    To query 2:
    You can use your tools to monitor change in an unbroken stretch of electronic text (e.g. 15 years), and/or contrast the language use in sequential finite comparable corpora at a given timespan apart, (e.g. 30 years, as with the LOB/FLOB; Brown/Frown corpora - contact Chris Mair at
     christian.mair@anglistik.uni-freiburg.de <mailto:christian.mair@anglistik.uni-freiburg.de> )
    If you are also interested in historical diachronic study, there are several major centres of expertise -
    you could approach the creators of the HELSINKI and ARCHER corpora for guidance. Modern and historical diachronic study are actually in the process of overlapping somewhere in the 20th century.
    There are many theoretical and practical choices, and linguistic, statistical and computational issues,
    involved in your proposed initiative. You are welcome to contact us in the R&D Unit if you need advice at the next stage.
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    Antoinette Renouf
    Professor of English Language and Linguistics
    School of English
    University of Central England in Birmingham
    Birmingham B42 2SU
           
    tel: +44 (0)121 331 7230
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            -----Original Message-----
            From: owner-corpora@lists.uib.no on behalf of Christopher Brewster
            Sent: Sun 07/11/2004 21:13
            To: corpora@uib.no
            Cc: angelo@maltalinks.com
            Subject: [Corpora-List] diachronic corpus tool
            
            

            We are in the process of constructing a tool for the analysis of diachronic
            corpora.
            
            I would be grateful for:
            1. Pointers to previous research on diachronic corpora, especially
            concerning vocabulary development, terminological innovation etc. rather
            than style.
            
            2. Any suggestions as to the kind of questions that would be of interest to
            be able to put to such a tool.
             By this I mean, what are the abstract questions one would like to answer.
            This is in order to design the query facility more effectively.
            
            I have my own research questions but we do not want to make the tool very
            narrow.
            
            Thanks in advance,
            
            Christopher Brewster
            Angelo Dalli
            
            
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