Designing and Evaluating Language Corpora: A Practical Framework for Corpus Representativeness

ISBN-13: 9781316605882 / Angielski / Miękka / 2022 / 250 str.

Bethany (Northern Arizona University) Gray

Opis

This volume introduces a new framework for conceptualizing and achieving corpus representativeness in a rigorous, yet practical way.

Spis treści

1. Introduction; 2. Approaches to representativeness in previous corpus linguistic research; 3. Corpus representativeness: a conceptual and methodological framework; 4. Domain considerations; 5. Distribution considerations; 6. The influence of domain and distribution considerations on corpus representativeness – bringing it all together; 7. Corpus design and representativeness in practice; Glossary; Appendix A. Example articles documenting existing corpora; Appendix B. Survey of corpus design and compilation practices.