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Language Independent Statistical Software for Corpus Exploration

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In this report two programs for statistical analysis of concordance lines are described. The programs have been developed for analyzing he lexical context of a given word. It is shown how different parameter settings influence the outcome of collocational analysis, and how the concept of collocation can be extended to allow the extraction of lines typical for a word from a set of concordance lines. Even though all the examples are for English, the software is completely language independent and only requires minimal linguistic resources.

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  1. School of English, The University of Birmingham, Corpus Research, Birmingham, B15 2TT, UK

    John Sinclair, Oliver Mason, Jackie Ball & Geoff Barnbrook

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Sinclair, J., Mason, O., Ball, J. et al. Language Independent Statistical Software for Corpus Exploration. Computers and the Humanities 31, 229–255 (1997). https://doi.org/10.1023/A:1000911520943

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