Computational and corpus linguistics

This book considers how people talk about their environment, find their way in new surroundings, and plan routes.

Provides a rigorous, linguistically-motivated exposition of the most commonly used grammatical formalisms, with applications, for graduate students and researchers.

This Element compares qualitative and quantitative approaches to analysing patient feedback about cancer care in terms of sex and age.

This book offers a linguistic-semantic analysis of the expression 'Eastern Europe' in international English-language media discourse and academic discourse.

This comprehensive Handbook presents an interdisciplinary overview of formal semantics, with contributions from leading scholars.

Data Analytics using Machine Learning Techniques on Cloud Platforms examines how machine learning (ML) and cloud computing combine to drive data-driven decision-making across industries.

Modal verbs in English communicate delicate shades of meaning, there being a large range of verbs both on the necessity side (must, have to, should, ought to, need, need to) and the possibility side (can, may, could, might, be able to).

Evaluation is the linguistic expression of speaker/writer opinion, and has only recently become the focus of linguistic analysis.

The subject of this monograph are restarting automata.

In a world where communication is key to human connection, understanding, and learning from one another, the book investigates the rich and intricate world of sign languages, highlighting the fascinating complexities of visual-spatial languages and their unique role in bridging the gap between hearing and deaf communities through information and communication technology.

The present volume includes a selection of twenty-one peer-reviewed and revised papers from the 37th annual Linguistic Symposium on Romance Languages (LSRL) held at the University of Pittsburgh in 2007.

It is with great pleasure that we are presenting to the community the second edition of this extraordinary handbook.

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The general focus of this book is on multimodal communication, which captures the temporal patterns of behavior in various dialogue settings.

This book develops a morphodynamical approach to linguistic and sign structures as an integrated response to multilevel and interrelated problems in semiolinguistic research.

This book focuses on linguistic synaesthesia in a hitherto less-studied language - Mandarin Chinese - and adopts a corpus-driven approach to support the analysis and argumentation.

Presenting innovative research-oriented ideas, and the implementation and socioeconomic applications of internet of things-based network, Challenges and Solutions in Internet of Things-Based Smart Applications showcases smart waste management, optical technologies for internet of things and remote patient monitoring and data analysis.

This book analyses diverse public discourses to investigate how wealth inequality has been portrayed in the British media from the time of the Second World War to the present day.

This book is about machine translation (MT) and the classic problems associated with this language technology.

This book discusses some of the basic issues relating to corpus generation and the methods normally used to generate a corpus.

This book describes interdisciplinary exploration of matters related to the translation and interpreting of legal texts.

English causative constructions with cause, get, have and make are often mistakenly presented as (quasi-)synonymous and more or less interchangeable.

This book explores the applications and advancements of federated learning across diverse sectors, focusing on its integration with cutting- edge technologies like Internet of Things (IoT), artificial intelligence (AI), blockchain, and digital twins.

This book reports on an outstanding thesis thathas significantly advanced the state-of-the-art in the automated analysis andclassification of speech and music.

Qualitative reasoning about space and time - a reasoning at the human level - promises to become a fundamental aspect of future systems that will accompany us in daily activity.

Meaning is a fundamental concept in Natural Language Processing (NLP), in the tasks of both Natural Language Understanding (NLU) and Natural Language Generation (NLG).

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What led Shakespeare to write his most cryptic poem, 'The Phoenix and Turtle'?

Corpus-Assisted Ecolinguistics introduces and integrates key research concepts, principles and techniques in ecolinguistics and corpus-assisted discourse study, answering foundational questions for researchers new to the discipline and asserting the urgent need to expand its scope.

Being presented with phrases of the kind, 'take the plunge' and 'write a letter', native speakers of English tend to agree that the former is more idiomatic that the latter.

The volume describes the frequency, the forms and the functions of different cleft construction types across two language families: the Romance languages (with discussion of Italian, French and Spanish data) and the Germanic languages (with focus on English, German, Swiss German and Danish).

This handbook deals with research into the nature of events, and how we use language to describe events.

Context is necessary for understanding human behavior.