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History, Features, and Typology of Language Corpora

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  • Is a must-read for graduate and postgraduate courses on applied and computational linguistics
  • Includes many pedagogical tools for easy comprehension of technical discussions

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Table of contents (15 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-xxix
  2. Definition of ‘Corpus’

    • Niladri Sekhar Dash, S. Arulmozi
    Pages 1-15
  3. Features of a Corpus

    • Niladri Sekhar Dash, S. Arulmozi
    Pages 17-34
  4. Genre of Text

    • Niladri Sekhar Dash, S. Arulmozi
    Pages 35-49
  5. Nature of Data

    • Niladri Sekhar Dash, S. Arulmozi
    Pages 51-65
  6. Type and Purpose of Text

    • Niladri Sekhar Dash, S. Arulmozi
    Pages 67-83
  7. Nature of Text Application

    • Niladri Sekhar Dash, S. Arulmozi
    Pages 85-99
  8. Parallel Translation Corpus

    • Niladri Sekhar Dash, S. Arulmozi
    Pages 101-124
  9. Web Text Corpus

    • Niladri Sekhar Dash, S. Arulmozi
    Pages 125-146
  10. Pre-digital Corpora (Part 1)

    • Niladri Sekhar Dash, S. Arulmozi
    Pages 147-165
  11. Pre-digital Corpora (Part 2)

    • Niladri Sekhar Dash, S. Arulmozi
    Pages 167-186
  12. Digital Text Corpora (Part 1)

    • Niladri Sekhar Dash, S. Arulmozi
    Pages 187-202
  13. Digital Text Corpora (Part 2)

    • Niladri Sekhar Dash, S. Arulmozi
    Pages 203-219
  14. Digital Speech Corpora

    • Niladri Sekhar Dash, S. Arulmozi
    Pages 221-239
  15. Utilization of Language Corpora

    • Niladri Sekhar Dash, S. Arulmozi
    Pages 241-258
  16. Limitations of Language Corpora

    • Niladri Sekhar Dash, S. Arulmozi
    Pages 259-272
  17. Back Matter

    Pages 273-293

About this book

This book discusses key issues of corpus linguistics like the definition of the corpus, primary features of a corpus, and utilization and limitations of corpora. It presents a unique classification scheme of language corpora to show how they can be studied from the perspective of genre, nature, text type, purpose, and application. A reference to parallel translation corpus is mandatory in the discussion of corpus generation, which the authors thoroughly address here, with a focus on Indian language corpora and English. Web-text corpus, a new development in corpus linguistics, is also discussed with elaborate reference to Indian web text corpora. The book also presents a short history of corpus generation and provides scenarios before and after the advent of computer-generated digital corpora. 

This book has several important features: it discusses many technical issues of the field in a lucid manner; contains extensive new diagrams and chartsfor easy comprehension; and presents discussions in simplified English to cater to the needs of non-native English readers. This is an important resource authored by academics who have many years of experience teaching and researching corpus linguistics. Its focus on Indian languages and on English corpora makes it applicable to students of graduate and postgraduate courses in applied linguistics, computational linguistics and language processing in South Asia and across countries where English is spoken as a first or second language.     

Authors and Affiliations

  • Linguistic Research Unit, Indian Statistical Institute, Kolkata, India

    Niladri Sekhar Dash

  • Centre for Applied Linguistics and Translation Studies, University of Hyderabad, Hyderabad, India

    S. Arulmozi

About the authors

Niladri Sekhar Dash, PhD, is Associate Professor in the Linguistic Research Unit of the Indian Statistical Institute, Kolkata. He has been working on Corpus Linguistics, Language Technology, Natural Language Processing, Language Documentation and Digitization, Computational Lexicography, Computer Assisted Language Teaching, and Manual and Machine Translation for over two decades. He has to his credit 15 research monographs and 160 research papers in peer-reviewed international and national journals, anthologies, and conference proceedings. He has delivered lectures and taught courses as an invited scholar at more than 30 universities and institutes in India and abroad. He has acted as a consultant for several organizations working on Language Technology and Natural Language Processing. Dr. Dash is the Principal Investigator for 5 language technology projects funded by the Government of India and the Indian Statistical Institute, Kolkata. He is the Editor-in-Chief of the Journal of Advanced Linguistic Studies – a peer-reviewed international journal of linguistics; and Editorial Board Member of 5 international journals. He is member of several linguistics associations across the world and a regular Ph.D. thesis adjudicator for several Indian universities. At present Dr. Dash is working on a Digital Pronunciation Dictionary for Bangla, Hindi-Bangla Parallel Translation Corpus Generation, Endangered Language Documentation and Digitization, POS Tagging and Chunking, Word Sense Disambiguation, Manual and Machine Translation, and Computer Assisted Language Teaching, etc. Details of Dr. Dash are at https://sites.google.com/site/nsdashisi/home/

S. Arulmozi, PhD, is Assistant Professor at the Centre for Applied Linguistics and Translation Studies (CALTS), University of Hyderabad, India. He has previously taught at the Dravidian University, Kuppam; acted as Guest Faculty at CALTS, University of Hyderabad; worked as Research Staff at the Anna University, Chennai; as Project Fellow at the Tamil University, Thanjavur; and as Language Assistant-Tamil at the Central Institute of Indian Languages, Mysore. Dr. Arulmozi has been working on Corpus Linguistics for some years and has been trained professionally in WordNet. He has successfully carried out projects on Corpus Linguistics and WordNet funded by the Government of India and has also conducted a workshop on language technology at the University of Malaya, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia. To his credit, he has 1 research monograph and 15 research papers in peer-reviewed international and national journals, edited volumes, and conference proceedings.

Bibliographic Information

  • Book Title: History, Features, and Typology of Language Corpora

  • Authors: Niladri Sekhar Dash, S. Arulmozi

  • DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-10-7458-5

  • Publisher: Springer Singapore

  • eBook Packages: Social Sciences, Social Sciences (R0)

  • Copyright Information: Springer Nature Singapore Pte Ltd. 2018

  • Hardcover ISBN: 978-981-10-7457-8Published: 12 February 2018

  • Softcover ISBN: 978-981-13-5638-4Published: 11 February 2019

  • eBook ISBN: 978-981-10-7458-5Published: 01 February 2018

  • Edition Number: 1

  • Number of Pages: XXIX, 293

  • Number of Illustrations: 58 b/w illustrations, 17 illustrations in colour

  • Topics: Corpus Linguistics, Natural Language Processing (NLP), Language Teaching

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