32.683, Books: Contributions to the Computational Processing of Diachronic Linguistic Corpora: Landulfo Teixeira Paradela Cunha

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Date: Wed, 24 Feb 2021 08:55:40
From: Janacy van Duijn Genet [lot at uva.nl]
Subject: Contributions to the Computational Processing of Diachronic Linguistic Corpora: Landulfo Teixeira Paradela Cunha

 


Title: Contributions to the Computational Processing of Diachronic
Linguistic Corpora 
Series Title: LOT Dissertation Series  

Publication Year: 2020 
Publisher: Netherlands Graduate School of Linguistics / Landelijke (LOT)
	   http://www.lotpublications.nl/
	

Book URL: https://www.lotpublications.nl/contributions-to-the-computational-processing-of-diachronic-linguistic-corpora 


Author: Evandro Landulfo Teixeira Paradela Cunha

Paperback: ISBN:  9789460933431 Pages: 219 Price: Europe EURO 32


Abstract:

Computer-assisted corpus linguistics is one of the main points of convergence
between linguistic and computational methods. In particular, the use of
diachronic linguistic corpora provides opportunities for the quantitative
analysis of phenomena concerning language change through time. This
dissertation offers contributions to three of the stages of the research
involving diachronic corpora: (a) corpus building and compilation; (b)
designing of tools and algorithms for data exploration; and (c) data analysis
for linguistic, cultural and historical research. Two resources are first
presented: a Web scraper of comments from news portals; and a diachronic
corpus composed of comments published in a major Brazilian news website. These
resources are relevant not only for linguists, but also for professionals
concerned with the public perception of news and the relationship between
media and society. Then, we propose a generalizable method to assist the
identification of periods of establishment and obsolescence of linguistic
items in a diachronic corpus based on the frequency of these items in the
corpus. This method may be employed for the analysis of any collection of
linguistic items, regardless of language or historical period. Finally, we
describe how diachronic corpora might be used for quantitative linguistic
investigation by proposing a framework centered on the investigation of
vocabulary through a diachronic approach. The applicability of this framework
is demonstrated through the case analysis of the use of the term fake news in
the media. With these contributions, we expect to advance research on
diachronic corpus linguistics and on computational methods for linguistic
analysis.
 



Linguistic Field(s): Computational Linguistics
                     Text/Corpus Linguistics


Written In: English  (eng)

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