[Corpora-List] neologism finder tools

[Eric Atwell]

Sylvana,
A problem with "retrieving new words in a corpus" is: "new" with respect
to what?  You can easily find all words in a corpus with only one (or
two..) occurrences, which makes them "rare"; but "new" implies
your corpus builds on a larger monitor corpus tracking the language over
time. As I understand it, AVIATOR/APRIL is not just software for a
static corpus but infrastructure for processing a (large) monitor corpus.
Is this what you have?

Eric Atwell


On Thu, 12 Jun 2003, krausse wrote:

> Dear colleagues,
>
> In Lynne Bowker's and Jennifer Pearson's book "Working with Specialized
> Corpora"  neologism finder tools like the ones used in the AVIATOR/APRIL
> project are mentioned.
>
> I wonder whether there are any free or commercial programs available or
> how other people go about retrieving new words in a corpus.
>
> Many thanks in advance,
>
> Sylvana Krausse
>

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