New Methods in Historical Corpora

Investigating the history of a language depends on fragmentary sources, but electronic corpora offer the possibility of alleviating the problem of 'bad data'. But they cannot overcome it totally, and questions arise of the optimal architecture for a corpus and its representativeness of actual language use, and how a historical corpus can best be annotated to maximize its usefulness. Immense strides have been made in recent years in addressing these questions, with exciting new methods and technological advances. The papers in this volume, which were presented at a conference on New Methods in Historical Corpora (Manchester 2011), exemplify the wide range of these recent developments.

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• Authors: Martin Durrell, Silke Scheible, Richard J Whitt
• Assisted by: Paul Bennet (Editor), Paul Bennett (Editor), Paul Durrell Bennett (Editor), Marti Durrell (Editor), Martin Durrell (Editor), Silke Scheible (Editor), Silke Scheible et al (Editor), Richard J. Whitt (Editor)
• Publisher: Narr
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 07.10.2013
• EAN: 9783823367604
• ISBN: 978-3-8233-6760-4
• No. of pages: 284
• Dimensions: 152 mm x 219 mm x 21 mm
• Weight: 434 g
• Series: Corpuslinguistics and Interdisciplinary Perspectives on Language (CLIP); Korpuslinguistik und Interdisziplinäre Perspektiven auf Sprache - Corpus Linguistics and Interdisciplinary Perspectives on Language (CLIP); Korpuslinguistik und interdisziplinäre Perspektiven auf Sprache, CLIP; Corpuslinguistics and Interdisciplinary Perspectives on Language (CLIP); Korpuslinguistik und Interdisziplinäre Perspektiven auf Sprache
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > General and comparative linguistics; Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > German linguistics / literary studies