Normal view MARC view ISBD view

Bowker, Lynne‏,

Working with specialized language : a practical guide to using corpora / Working with specialised language Lynne Bowker and Jennifer Pearson. - xiii, 242 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm

Includes glossary.


Includes bibliographical references and index.


pt. I. Setting the scene -- Introducing corpora and corpus analysis tools -- Introducing LSP -- pt. II. Corpus design, compilation and processing -- Designing a special purpose corpus -- Compiling a special purpose corpus -- Markup and annotation -- Bilingual and multilingual corpora: pre-processing, alignment and exploitation -- Introduction to basis corpus processing tools -- pt. III. Corpus-based applications in LSP -- Building useful glossaries -- Term extraction -- Using LSP corpora as a writing guide -- Using LSP corpora as a translation resource -- Other applications and future directions.

This text is designed for users of language for special purposes (LSP). Providing guidelines and practical advice, it enables LSP users to design, build and exploit corpus resources that meet their specialized language needs.

ISBN: 0415236991 9780415236997

Subjects--Topical Terms:
Sublanguage--Data processing.
Computational linguistics.

Subjects--Geographic Terms:

Subjects--Index Terms:

Index Terms--Genre/Form: --Reading book

Dewey Class. No.: 418.00285 / BOW