Corpus linguistics, applied linguistics & technology in language education
Bergenholtz, Henning (University of Aarhus, Denmark): A corpus analysis is a superfluous ceremony and a complete waste of your time and the government’s money. This presentation is an interesting review of attitudes towards corpus-based analyses of language.
AELINCO 2015 Conference, U. Valladolid, Spain Andre Hardie Keynote What follows is my own notes and understanding of Hardie’s keynote. How big is big data? N= ALL? Non manual curation of the database Must be mined or statistically summarised (manual not posssible) Pattern finding: trend modelling, data mining & machine learning Language big data: Google n-gram … Read more
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Two of my favourite paintings by Edward Burne -Jones. The Hours The wheel of fortune