Dear all,
Further to Antoinette's message, you might want to check out our diachronic
corpus of Present-Day Spoken English:
http://www.ucl.ac.uk/english-usage/diachronic/index.htm
Bas
-- Prof. Bas Aarts Department of English Language and Literature University College London Gower Street London WC1E 6BT T: 020 7679 3130 F: 020 7916 2054Quoting Antoinette Renouf <Antoinette.Renouf@uce.ac.uk>:
> 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. > ------------------------- > 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 > fax: +44 (0)121 331 6622 > mob: +44 (0)7980 750037 > email: ajrenouf@uce.ac.uk > url: http://rdues.uce.ac.uk > > > -----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 > > > ***************************************************** > Natural Language Processing Group, > Department of Computer Science, University of Sheffield > Tel: +44(0)114-22.21967 Fax: +44 (0)114-22.21810 > Regent Court, 211 Portobello Street > Sheffield S1 4DP UNITED KINGDOM > Web: http://www.dcs.shef.ac.uk/~kiffer/ > ***************************************************** > A definition is the enclosing a wilderness of an > idea within a wall of words.--- Samuel Butler > > > > > > > > > > >
-- Prof. Bas Aarts Department of English Language and Literature University College London Gower Street London WC1E 6BT T: 020 7679 3130 F: 020 7916 2054
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