The automatic analysis of corpora

Compilación Y Análisis De Un Corpus Paralelo Para La Investigación en Traducción: Proyecto Con Déjà Vu, Treetagger E Ims Open Corpus Workbench

“…Al respecto existen opiniones enfrentadas en torno a si una posterior revisión manual del etiquetado sería o no necesaria. Por ejemplo, Sinclair (1992) se manifiesta contrario a la postedición humana y prioriza un análisis automático en su integridad: "Analysis should be restricted to what the machine can do without human checking, or intervention" (1992: 381). Al contrario, Kahrel, Barnett y Leech (1997) opinan que "ultimately it is the human being's mental interpretation that enables us to evaluate the quality of annotation " (1997: 244).…”

“Historically Informed” Corpus Studies

“…Modern corpus studies originated in studies of language (Firth, 1957;Sinclair, 1992;Quirk, I960;), and the working hypotheses of those studies continue to influence corpus studies in music. If one thinks of language comprehension as involving a type of auditory scene analysis (Bregman, 1990), one sees that studies of verbal corpora have made the quite reasonable and often methodologically necessary simplification that language constitutes a single auditory stream, one represented either as transcribed speech or as written text to be heard internally by a reader.…”

Reviews

“…Stubbs briefly describes work at the University of Birmingham which has gone towards the compilation of a 200 million word machine-readable corpus of spoken and written English entitled the Bank of English. and he refers to other work which has developed dictionaries, grammars, and a variety of linguistic scholarship describing English according to these principles (Sinclair 1987(Sinclair , 1990(Sinclair , 1991(Sinclair , 1992c. In his introduction, Stubbs also establishes the tone of much of the collection: his final principle flatly declares that Sinclair's work provides sufficient evidence to conclude that "Saussurian [and Chomskyan] dualisms are misconceived" (p. 3).…”