Corpus linguistics, applied linguistics & technology in language education
Ruth Breeze Ideology in corporate language: discourse analysis using Wmatrix3 2013 Annual Reports from leading companies (16) in financial services, mining, food and pharmaceutical Parts: first part, non technical, discursive, visually interesting Reference corpus: 1st BNC Sampler Business & BNC Informative texts but then only BNC Business Use of semantic categories Three case studies: size … Read more
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
Current Work in Corpus Linguistics: Working with Traditionally-conceived Corpora and Beyond Welcome to Valladolid for the CILC2015, the seventh edition of the International Conference on Corpus Linguistics organized by AELINCO, the Spanish Association of Corpus Linguistics and hosted this year by the Department of English and the International Centre for Lexicography (University of de … Read more
