13.2964, Books: Text/Corpus Linguistics: Geoff Barnbrook

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Subject: 13.2964, Books: Text/Corpus Linguistics: Geoff  Barnbrook

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Date:  Thu, 14 Nov 2002 14:40:39 +0000
From:  paul at benjamins.com
Subject:  Defining Language: Geoff  Barnbrook

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Date:  Thu, 14 Nov 2002 14:40:39 +0000
From:  paul at benjamins.com
Subject:  Defining Language: Geoff  Barnbrook


Title: Defining Language
Subtitle: A local grammar of definition sentences
Series Title: Studies in Corpus Linguistics 11
			
Publication Year: 2002
			
Publisher: John Benjamins
           http://www.benjamins.com/, http://www.benjamins.nl		
			
Book URL: http://www.benjamins.com/cgi-bin/t_bookview.cgi?bookid=SCL_11
			
Author: Geoff  Barnbrook, University of Birmingham
				
Hardback: ISBN: 1588112985, Pages: xvi, 281, Price: USD 79.00
Hardback: ISBN: 9027222819, Pages: xvi, 281, Price: EUR 88.00

			
Abstract:

Definition is a basic activity of language, of particular importance
to linguists because of its use of language to describe itself. Beyond
this inherent significance as a crucial element of language study,
definitions also provide a rich potential source of the information
needed for Natural Language Processing systems. This book describes an
investigation of the subset of general language used in definition
sentences and the development of a taxonomy of definition types, a
grammar of definition sentences and parsing software which can extract
their functional components. The work is based on definition sentences
used in one of the dictionaries from the Cobuild range, and the book
includes a brief history of the development of monolingual English
dictionaries, an assessment of the concepts of sublanguages and local
grammars and a full exploration of the results of the analysis and of
the present and future applications of the taxonomy, grammar and
parser.


Table of Contents

Acknowledgements  vii
Brief description  ix
1. Language, definitions and dictionaries  1
2. Monolingual English dictionaries  15
3. Grammars, parsers, sublanguages and local grammars  59
4. Methodology  97
5. The definition type taxonomy  135
6. The definition language grammar and its parser  161
7. Evaluation and applications  213
Appendix 1  253
Appendix 2  257
Appendix 3
     Simon Krek  263
Bibliography  269
Index  273

Lingfield(s): Text/Corpus Linguistics
			
Written In: English (Language Code: ENG)


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