[Corpora-List] Bootstrap in linguistics

[Alexander Yeh]

Also in a related manner, I used stratified shuffling, which is similar 
to the bootstrap:

"More accurate tests for the statistical significance of result
differences", Alexander Yeh, 18th International Conference on 
Computational Linguistics (COLING 2000), pages 947-953.


Jin-Dong Kim wrote:
> Dear Chris,
>
> I am not sure if you consider it as a corpus linguistics study, but
> bootstrap resampling techniques were indeed used in this work:
>
> @article{Sang:2002:MSP:944790.944818,
>   author = {Sang, Erik F. Tjong Kim},
>   title = {Memory-based shallow parsing},
>   journal = {J. Mach. Learn. Res.},
>   volume = {2},
>   month = {March},
>   year = {2002},
>   issn = {1532-4435},
>   pages = {559--594},
>   numpages = {36},
>   url = {http://dl.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=944790.944818},
>   acmid = {944818},
>   publisher = {JMLR.org},
>   keywords = {feature selection, memory-based learning, shallow
> parsing, system combination},
> }
>
> Hope it helps.
>
> Best,
>
> Jin-Dong
>
> On Thu, Oct 13, 2011 at 11:43 PM,<CRuehlemann at aol.com>  wrote:
>> Dear all,
>>
>>
>>
>> It is not uncommon in quantitative corpus linguistic studies that a
>> significance test cannot be performed either because one cannot juxtapose
>> the distribution of a variable against the distribution of another
>> comparable variable or against a specific distribution (e.g. normal
>> distribution, exponential, etc.) or against an a priory stipulated value. To
>> nonetheless assess whether the distribution in the sample is simply due to
>> chance or a reflection of the true distribution in the population,
>> statisticians often use the bootstrap method. This method is a resampling
>> method: from the sample, a large number of resamples are drawn randomly and
>> with replacement.
>>
>>
>>
>> Is anyone aware of any (corpus) linguistic study/studies which has/have used
>> this method?
>>
>>
>>
>> Many thanks in advance
>>
>>
>>
>> Chris
>>
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