16.2137, Qs: Lexical Bundles; German Wordlist with Hyphenation

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LINGUIST List: Vol-16-2137. Tue Jul 12 2005. ISSN: 1068 - 4875.

Subject: 16.2137, Qs: Lexical Bundles; German Wordlist with Hyphenation

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1)
Date: 12-Jul-2005
From: Jennifer Eagleton < jenny at asian-emphasis.com >
Subject: Lexical Bundles 

2)
Date: 11-Jul-2005
From: Gregor Sieber < gregor.sieber at student.uni-tuebingen.de >
Subject: German Wordlist with Hyphenation - New Spelling 

	
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Date: Tue, 12 Jul 2005 11:05:37
From: Jennifer Eagleton < jenny at asian-emphasis.com >
Subject: Lexical Bundles 
 

Editor's note: Apologies for the delay in posting.

I notice that all of the studies I have read on this topic have focussed on 4
word bundles and that you they have all used what I would call large corpora
i.e. many millions of words. The rationale seems to be that with 5 word bundles
you do not get enough to analyse and that with three word bundles there are
probably too many to handle.

I want to do a study of bundles on a specific corpus I have, but which only has
600,000 words. To be able to work with large numbers of bundles, it would
therefore make sense to focus on 3 word bundles. I could do a study on 4 word
bundles, but the sample would be smaller.

So my question is, do people see any disadvantages on focusing on 3-word bundles
and, if so, what they might be?

Looking forward to hearing your responses.

- 
ON BEHALF OF PROF. JOHN FLOWERDEW
DEPARTMENT OF ENGLISH AND COMMUNICATION
CITY UNIVERSITY OF HONG KONG 

Linguistic Field(s): Text/Corpus Linguistics



	
-------------------------Message 2 ---------------------------------- 
Date: Tue, 12 Jul 2005 11:05:40
From: Gregor Sieber < gregor.sieber at student.uni-tuebingen.de >
Subject: German Wordlist with Hyphenation - New Spelling 

	

I am a BA student in computational linguistics at the university of
Tübingen. For my BA thesis I am working on finite state patterns for German
following the work of Gosse Bouma (for Dutch). I want to use machine
learning algorithms to improve the results of the FS approach. For this
reason I am look for a word list in the new German orthography that
contains hyphenation points and could be used as training data for the
algorithm (TBL). The CELEX list, which would have been a god resource, is
still in the old orthography.

Thank you in advance for any hints about such a wordlist.

Best regards

Gregor Sieber 

Linguistic Field(s): Computational Linguistics


 



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