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Exploring Natural Language: Working With the British Component of the International Corpus of English

By Bas Aarts , Gerald Nelson , Sean Wallis

Book information

Publisher
John Benjamins Pub Co
Year
2002
ISBN
9027248885, 9789027248886, 9789027248893, 1588112705, 9781588112705, 1588112713, 9781588112712
LCC
PE1074.5 .N46 2002
Google Books ID
mYlba8TDNpsC
Open Library ID
OL3570705M
Language
english
Format
PDF
Filesize
16 MB (17223626 bytes)
Series
Varieties of English around the world volume 29
Pages
361\361
Orientation
yes
Scanned
yes
Time added
2012-03-09 12:00:00

Description

ICE-GB is a 1 million-word corpus of contemporary British English. It is fully parsed, and contains over 83,000 syntactic trees. Together with the dedicated retrieval software, ICECUP, ICE-GB is an unprecedented resource for the study of English syntax. "Exploring Natural Language" is a comprehensive guide to both corpus and software. It contains a full reference for ICE-GB. The chapters on ICECUP provide complete instructions on the use of the many features of the software, including concordancing, lexical and grammatical searches, sociolinguistic queries, random sampling, and searching for syntactic structures using ICECUP's Fuzzy Tree Fragment models. Special attention is given to the principles of experimental design in a parsed corpus. Six case studies provide step-by-step illustrations of how the corpus and software can be used to explore real linguistic issues, from simple lexical studies to more complex syntactic topics, such as noun phrase structure, verb transitivity, and voice.

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