Computational and corpus linguistics

This book fills a significant gap in the field by addressing the topic of absence in discourse.

This book is about investigating the way people use language in speech and writing, introducing the corpus-based approach to the study of language.

This volume comprises nine contributions that were written by up-and-coming corpus-based researchers with varied areas of expertise, who were all disciples of Douglas Biber sometime in the past two decades.

This book is a convergence of heterogeneous insights (from languages and literature, history, music, media and communications, computer science and information studies) which previously went their separate ways; now unified under a single framework for the purpose of preserving a unique heritage, the language.

This handbook explores quantitative linguistics, pedagogy, and Mandarin language acquisition in an integrated fashion and helps readers grasp how insights from quantitative linguistics can shed light on Mandarin language acquisition.

Although Portuguese is one of the main world languages and researchers have been working on Portuguese electronic text collections for decades (e.

This book presents an overview of speaker recognition technologies with an emphasis on dealing with robustness issues.

Technik von gestern - Herausforderung für heute - Chance für morgen!

To trainee translators and established professionals alike, the range of tools and technologies now available, and the speed with which they change, can seem bewildering.

The present volume collects contributions addressing different aspects of the measurement of linguistic differences, a topic which probably is as old as language itself but at the same time has acquired renewed interest over the last decade or so, reflecting a rapid development of data-intensive computing in all fields of research, including linguistics.

This is the first volume that brings together research and practice from academic and industry settings and a combination of human and machine translation evaluation.

Is the internet a suitable linguistic corpus?

Research writing and teaching is a great challenge for novice scholars, especially L2 writers.

There have been considerable recent demographic shifts in the use of English worldwide.

This is the first volume specifically dedicated to competition in inflection and word-formation, a topic that has increasingly attracted attention.

The two-volume set LNCS 9623 + 9624 constitutes revised selected papers from the CICLing 2016 conference which took place in Konya, Turkey, in April 2016.

This book mainly introduces a series of theory and approaches of group decision-making based on several types of uncertain linguistic expressions and addresses their applications.

Interpreting Motion presents an integrated perspective on how language structures constrain concepts of motion and how the world shapes the way motion is linguistically expressed.

The contributions in this volume focus on the Bayesian interpretation of natural languages, which is widely used in areas of artificial intelligence, cognitive science, and computational linguistics.

This book explores the application of generative Large Language Models (LLMs) for extracting and analyzing data from natural language artefacts.

This book explores the interconnections between linguistics and Artificial Intelligence (AI) research, their mutually influential theories and developments, and the areas where these two groups can still learn from each other.

It has been estimated that over a billion people are using or learning English as a second or foreign language, and the numbers are growing not only for English but for other languages as well.

Bringing together leading scholars and practitioners, Rethinking Writing Education in the Age of Generative AI offers a timely exploration of pressing issues in writing pedagogies within an increasingly AI-mediated educational landscape.

This book covers language modeling and automatic speech recognition for inflective languages (e.

This edited volume provides a platform for experts from various fields to introduce and discuss their different perspectives on the topic of teamwork and collaborative problem solving.

This book addresses the research, analysis, and description of the methods and processes that are used in the annotation and processing of language corpora in advanced, semi-advanced, and non-advanced languages.

This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 10th International Conference, NooJ 2016, held Ceske Budejovice, Czech Republic, in June 2016.

Sun, Liu, Moratto, and the team of contributors provide an in-depth exploration of the implications of artificial intelligence (AI) in the ever-evolving field of translation studies.

This book presents a new approach to computational musicology in which music becomes a computational entity based on human cognition, allowing us to calculate music like numbers.

This completely rewritten second edition provides a thorough introduction to corpus research from the point of view of Applied Linguistics.

Construction Grammar is enthusiastically embraced by a growing group of linguists who find it a natural way to formulate their analyses.

This book presents a complete overview of all aspects of audiovisual speech including perception, production, brain processing and technology.

This volume contains a collection of contributions to the science of language, focusing on the study of word length in particular.

To date, the relation between multilingualism and the Semantic Web has not yet received enough attention in the research community.

This contributed volume discusses in detail the process of construction of a WordNet of 18 Indian languages, called "e;Indradhanush"e; (rainbow) in Hindi.

This book gathers, and makes available in English, with new introductions, previously out of print or otherwise difficult to access articles by Fr Roberto Busa S.

This comprehensive reference work provides an overview of the concepts, methodologies, and applications in computational linguistics and natural language processing (NLP).

This updated book expands upon prosody for recognition applications of speech processing.

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