27.1071, Books: Extraction and Analysis of Modal Auxiliaries in Consecutive Clauses from a Corpus: Chartrand

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Date: Tue, 01 Mar 2016 10:40:28
From: Chris Humphrey [chumphrey at c-s-p.org]
Subject: Extraction and Analysis of Modal Auxiliaries in Consecutive Clauses from a Corpus: Chartrand

Title: Extraction and Analysis of Modal Auxiliaries in Consecutive
Clauses from a Corpus 
Publication Year: 2016 
Publisher: Cambridge Scholars Publishing
	   http://www.cambridgescholars.com/

Book URL: http://bit.ly/1KsW7yg 

Author: Robert Chartrand

Hardback: ISBN: 144388717X 9781443887175 Pages: 140 Price: U.K. £ 41.99
Hardback: ISBN: 144388717X 9781443887175 Pages: 140 Price: U.S. $ 71.95

Abstract:

Although there are a large number of grammar books that explain the form and
meaning of the English modal auxiliaries, there are few resources that provide
examples as to what modals could be used, and in which cases, when referring
to successive clauses. Modal auxiliaries are among the most difficult
structures to teach to students of English as a second or foreign language.
Some combinations of modals are more commonly used than others, and pairs of
modals are used to express a specific meaning. It is not well known, however,
exactly which combinations of modals are more popular. Therefore, a method to
extract modal auxiliaries in two consecutive clauses from the British National
Corpus 2007 XML edition was developed and is discussed in this book.

Pair modal frequencies were not well known since simple string match methods
could not be used with embedded sentences, complex sentences and compound
sentences. This problem was solved by defining rules of sentence structures to
identify important clauses carrying the main ideas of sentences, extracting
only the important clauses and calculating t-scores. A system was implemented
by using computational linguistic techniques for extracting, parsing, and
simplifying sentences for learners to study the use of modal auxiliaries.
Which collocational expressions are more common? What is the appropriateness
of the results? Learners and educators can make use of these results to gain a
better understanding of modal auxiliaries, and to facilitate the process of
teaching and learning English.

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

Subject Language(s): English (eng)

Written In: English  (eng)

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