The effect of representativeness and size in historical corpora: An empirical study of changes in lexical frequency

Davies, Mark; Chapman, Don; Moore, Colette; Wilcox, Miranda

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“…In corpus design, representativeness of a language or community-language practice (however bounded) is a complex yet essential consideration in ensuring the integrity of analysis (Biber, 1993;Davies & Chapman, 2016;Sinclair, 2004). Similarly, as learners interacting with corpora occupies the core of any DDL activity, the question of what data to use in DDL is a primary concern.…”

Section: Selecting Corpora For Corpus-based Language Teachingmentioning

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New Theoretical and Practical Horizons in Data‐driven Learning: Introduction to the Special Issue

Casal,

Kessler

2024

TESOL Quarterly

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This paper introduces readers to the TESOL Quarterly special topic issue: Assessing the effectiveness of corpus‐based approaches to English language teaching. The authors open by briefly defining and outlining data‐driven learning (DDL) research on second language (English) teaching. This is followed by an extended discussion of four themes, which pertain to recent developments and future directions in DDL. These themes include: (1) selecting corpora for corpus‐based language teaching; (2) pushing the boundaries of DDL; (3) preparing language educators for corpus‐based language teaching; and (4) reflecting on theory and methods. Throughout the piece, readers are also introduced to those contributions within the special issue, which include a diverse range of pieces that focus on aspects of theory, research, and pedagogy.

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Section: Selecting Corpora For Corpus-based Language Teachingmentioning

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New Theoretical and Practical Horizons in Data‐driven Learning: Introduction to the Special Issue

Casal,

Kessler

2024

TESOL Quarterly

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“…The search engine is based on eight million English books, i.e., approximately 20% of the entire Google Books collection, which comprises 40 million scanned books calculated at more than two and a half trillion words. 35 Five million of those books allowed the American linguist Mark Davies to create a user interface to Google Books covering two corpora: Google Books American Corpus (155 billion words) and Google Books British Corpus (34 billion words) (see, e.g., Davies & Chapman 2016). The data provided below are derived from 32 This is impossible in the case of Google Books, which provides access to a restricted number of websites.…”

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Revising the History of Nitchevo with Text Archives

Podhajecka

2023

stap

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This article focuses on the way nitchevo, a nineteenth-century Russian borrowing, was adopted into the English language. In order to investigate the history of the word, six digital text archives were considered. The results of the research are promising: not only do they allow one to trace antedatings for both senses, which updates the treatment of nitchevo in the Oxford English Dictionary (OED), but they also shed light on its semantic development, spelling variation, and route of transmission. Tellingly, albeit unsurprisingly, the evidence suggests that the press is responsible for boosting the recognition of the word on both sides of the Atlantic. All this indicates that the potential of modern research tools, including British and American newspaper archives, remains to be fully explored.

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The Statistic Analysis of Conjunctive Adverbs Used in the First Bulgarian School Books in Mathematics (from the First Half of XIX c.)

Stoykova

2019

Numerical Methods and Applications

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The effect of representativeness and size in historical corpora: An empirical study of changes in lexical frequency

Cited by 5 publications

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New Theoretical and Practical Horizons in Data‐driven Learning: Introduction to the Special Issue

New Theoretical and Practical Horizons in Data‐driven Learning: Introduction to the Special Issue

Revising the History of Nitchevo with Text Archives

The Statistic Analysis of Conjunctive Adverbs Used in the First Bulgarian School Books in Mathematics (from the First Half of XIX c.)

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