Working with Specialized Language - A Practical Guide to Using Corpora

List of contents

List of figures, Acknowledgements, Introduction, PART I. Setting the scene, 1. Introducing corpora and corpus analysis tools, 2. Introducing LSP, PART II. Corpus design, compilation and processing, 3. Designing a special purpose corpus, 4. Compiling a special purpose corpus, 5. Markup and annotation, 6. Bilingual and multilingual corpora: pre-processing, alignment and exploitation, 7. Introduction to basic corpus processing tools, PART III. Corpus-based applications in LSP, 8. Building useful glossaries, 9. Term extraction, 10. Using LSP corpora as a writing guide, 11. Using LSP corpora as a translation resource, 12. Other applications and future directions, Appendix, Glossary, Bibliography, Index

About the author

Lynne Bowker, Jennifer Pearson

Summary

This book is ideal for translators, technical writers and subject specialists who are interested in exploring the potential of a corpus-based approach to teaching and learning LSP.

Product details

• Authors: Lynne Bowker, Bowker Lynne, Jennifer Pearson, Pearson Jennifer
• Publisher: Taylor and Francis
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 01.08.2002
• EAN: 9780415236980
• ISBN: 978-0-415-23698-0
• No. of pages: 256
• Weight: 630 g
• Subjects: Natural sciences, medicine, IT, technology > IT, data processing > Programming languages; Linguistics, LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES / Linguistics / General, Programming & scripting languages: general, Programming and scripting languages: general, COMPUTERS / Languages / General