[Corpora-List] diachronic corpus tool

[Bas Aarts]

Dear all,

Further to Antoinette's message, you might want to check out our diachronic
corpus of Present-Day Spoken English:

http://www.ucl.ac.uk/english-usage/diachronic/index.htm

Bas

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Prof. Bas Aarts
Department of English Language and Literature
University College London
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London WC1E 6BT
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Quoting Antoinette Renouf <Antoinette.Renouf at uce.ac.uk>:

> Dear Chris and Angelo
> To query 1:
> Assuming you are interested in constructing tools for the analysis of modern
> language, I would refer you to the publication details and demos of
> diachronic tools on the web-site of the Research and Development Unit for
> English Studies, University of Central England in Birmingham, at
> http://rdues.uce.ac.uk/. Our tools analyse change across time (15 years) in
> terminology, word meaning and use, morphology, the structure of the lexicon,
> sense relations and topic/aboutness.
> To query 2:
> You can use your tools to monitor change in an unbroken stretch of electronic
> text (e.g. 15 years), and/or contrast the language use in sequential finite
> comparable corpora at a given timespan apart, (e.g. 30 years, as with the
> LOB/FLOB; Brown/Frown corpora - contact Chris Mair at
>  christian.mair at anglistik.uni-freiburg.de
> <mailto:christian.mair at anglistik.uni-freiburg.de> )
> If you are also interested in historical diachronic study, there are several
> major centres of expertise -
> you could approach the creators of the HELSINKI and ARCHER corpora for
> guidance. Modern and historical diachronic study are actually in the process
> of overlapping somewhere in the 20th century.
> There are many theoretical and practical choices, and linguistic, statistical
> and computational issues,
> involved in your proposed initiative. You are welcome to contact us in the
> R&D Unit if you need advice at the next stage.
> -------------------------
> Antoinette Renouf
> Professor of English Language and Linguistics
> School of English
> University of Central England in Birmingham
> Birmingham B42 2SU
>
> tel: +44 (0)121 331 7230
> fax: +44 (0)121 331 6622
> mob: +44 (0)7980 750037
> email: ajrenouf at uce.ac.uk
> url: http://rdues.uce.ac.uk
>
>
> 	-----Original Message-----
> 	From: owner-corpora at lists.uib.no on behalf of Christopher Brewster
> 	Sent: Sun 07/11/2004 21:13
> 	To: corpora at uib.no
> 	Cc: angelo at maltalinks.com
> 	Subject: [Corpora-List] diachronic corpus tool
>
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>
> 	We are in the process of constructing a tool for the analysis of diachronic
> 	corpora.
>
> 	I would be grateful for:
> 	1. Pointers to previous research on diachronic corpora, especially
> 	concerning vocabulary development, terminological innovation etc. rather
> 	than style.
>
> 	2. Any suggestions as to the kind of questions that would be of interest to
> 	be able to put to such a tool.
> 	 By this I mean, what are the abstract questions one would like to answer.
> 	This is in order to design the query facility more effectively.
>
> 	I have my own research questions but we do not want to make the tool very
> 	narrow.
>
> 	Thanks in advance,
>
> 	Christopher Brewster
> 	Angelo Dalli
>
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Prof. Bas Aarts
Department of English Language and Literature
University College London
Gower Street
London WC1E 6BT
T: 020 7679 3130
F: 020 7916 2054