33.1713, Books: Designing and Evaluating Language Corpora: Egbert, Biber, Gray

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Date: Fri, 13 May 2022 08:16:49
From: Ellena Moriarty [ellena.moriarty at cambridge.org]
Subject: Designing and Evaluating Language Corpora: Egbert, Biber, Gray

 


Title: Designing and Evaluating Language Corpora 
Subtitle: A Practical Framework for Corpus Representativeness 
Publication Year: 2022 
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
	   http://www.cambridge.org/linguistics
	

Book URL: https://www.cambridge.org/us/academic/subjects/languages-linguistics/research-methods-linguistics/designing-and-evaluating-language-corpora-practical-framework-corpus-representativeness?format=PB 


Author: Jesse Egbert
Author: Douglas Biber
Author: Bethany Gray

Hardback: ISBN:  9781107151383 Pages:  Price: U.S. $ 99.99
Hardback: ISBN:  9781107151383 Pages:  Price: U.K. £ 74.99
Hardback: ISBN:  9781107151383 Pages:  Price: Europe EURO 87.52
Paperback: ISBN:  9781316605882 Pages:  Price: U.S. $ 34.99
Paperback: ISBN:  9781316605882 Pages:  Price: U.K. £ 26.99
Paperback: ISBN:  9781316605882 Pages:  Price: Europe EURO 31.50


Abstract:

Corpora are ubiquitous in linguistic research, yet to date, there has been no
consensus on how to conceptualize corpus representativeness and collect corpus
samples. This pioneering book bridges this gap by introducing a conceptual and
methodological framework for corpus design and representativeness. Written by
experts in the field, it shows how corpora can be designed and built in a way
that is both optimally suited to specific research agendas, and adequately
representative of the types of language use in question.  It considers
questions such as 'what types of texts should be included in the corpus?', and
'how many texts are required?' – highlighting that the degree of
representativeness rests on the dual pillars of domain considerations and
distribution considerations. The authors introduce, explain, and illustrate
all aspects of this corpus representativeness framework in a step-by-step
fashion, using examples and activities to help readers develop practical
skills in corpus design and evaluation.
 



1. Introduction; 2. Approaches to representativeness in previous corpus
linguistic research; 3. Corpus representativeness: a conceptual and
methodological framework; 4. Domain considerations; 5. Distribution
considerations; 6. The influence of domain and distribution considerations on
corpus representativeness – bringing it all together; 7. Corpus design and
representativeness in practice; Glossary; Appendix A. Example articles
documenting existing corpora; Appendix B. Survey of corpus design and
compilation practices.
 


Linguistic Field(s): Text/Corpus Linguistics


Written In: English  (eng)

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