26.413, Books: Cluster Analysis for Corpus Linguistics: Moisl

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Date: Wed, 21 Jan 2015 16:32:00
From: Linda Steglich [linda.steglich at degruyter.com]
Subject: Cluster Analysis for Corpus Linguistics: Moisl

 


Title: Cluster Analysis for Corpus Linguistics 
Series Title: Quantitative Linguistics [QL] 66  

Publication Year: 2015 
Publisher: De Gruyter Mouton
	   http://www.degruyter.com/mouton
	

Book URL: http://www.degruyter.com/view/product/248853?format=G 


Author: Hermann Moisl

Electronic: ISBN:  9783110393170 Pages: 381 Price: Europe EURO 99.95
Hardback: ISBN:  9783110350258 Pages: 381 Price: Europe EURO 99.95


Abstract:

The standard scientific methodology in linguistics is empirical testing of
falsifiable hypotheses. As such the process of hypothesis generation is
central, and involves formulation of a research question about a domain of
interest and statement of a hypothesis relative to it. In corpus linguistics
the domain is text, and generation involves abstraction of data from text,
data analysis, and formulation of a hypothesis based on inference from the
results. Traditionally this process has been paper-based, but the advent of
electronic text has increasingly rendered it obsolete both because the size of
digital corpora is now at or beyond the limit of what can efficiently be used
in the traditional way, and because the complexity of data abstracted from
them can be impenetrable to understanding. Linguists are increasingly turning
to mathematical and statistical computational methods for help, and cluster
analysis is such a method. It is used across the sciences for hypothesis
generation by identification of structure in data which are too large or
complex, or both, to be interpretable by direct inspection. This book aims to
show how cluster analysis can be used for hypothesis generation in corpus
linguistics, thereby contributing to a quantitative empirical methodology for
the discipline.
 



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


Written In: English  (eng)

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