Computational and corpus linguistics

Data-driven experimental analysis has become the main evaluation tool of Natural Language Processing (NLP) algorithms.

This white paper is part of a series that promotes knowledge about language technology and its potential.

th This volume is dedicated to Dov Gabbay who celebrated his 50 birthday in October 1995.

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

This volume presents important results of the Collaborative Research Center (Sonderforschungsbereich) "e;Situated Artificial Communicators,"e; which was funded by grants from the German Research Foundation (Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft) for more than twelve years.

This book addresses big data as a socio-technical construct with huge potential for innovation in key sectors such as healthcare, government and business.

The volume "e;Genres on the Web"e; has been designed for a wide audience, from the expert to the novice.

This book extensively covers the use of graph-based algorithms for natural language processing and information retrieval.

Empirical - data-driven, neural network-based, probabilistic, and statistical - methods seem to be the modern trend.

Offers an up-to-date analysis of issues related to providing, using and researching feedback, including new developments in technology.

Is the internet a suitable linguistic corpus?

This book offers a cross-cultural comparison of French and British cosmetics advertisements and explores how the discourse of beauty advertising represents ideas about femininity in French and English language contexts.

The two volumes LNCS 9041 and 9042 constitute the proceedings of the 16th International Conference on Computational Linguistics and Intelligent Text Processing, CICLing 2015, held in Cairo, Egypt, in April 2015.

A much-needed overview of the diverse approaches to research and practice in computer-assisted language learning.

A revival of interest in morphology has occurred during recent years.

This two-volume set, consisting of LNCS 8403 and LNCS 8404, constitutes the thoroughly refereed proceedings of the 14th International Conference on Intelligent Text Processing and Computational Linguistics, CICLing 2014, held in Kathmandu, Nepal, in April 2014.

This book analyzes how news discourse was shaped over time by external factors, such as the historical context, news production, technological innovation and current affairs, and as such both conformed to and deviated from generic conventions.

This book focuses on aspects of variation and change in language use in spoken and written discourse on the basis of corpus analyses, providing new descriptive insights, and new methods of utilising small specialized corpora for the description of language variation and change.

This book showcases fresh research into the underexplored territory of complementation through a detailed analysis of gerunds and 'to' infinitives involving control in English.

This book presents methods and approaches used to identify the true author of a doubtful document or text excerpt.

Combining corpus linguistics, critical discourse analysis, and a discourse analysis of narratives, this book considers one aspect of the Brexit process: the language that journalists, politicians and individuals used to write and talk about what it means to be British and European around the time of Brexit.

This volume presents articles that focus on the application of formal models in the study of language in a variety of innovative ways, and is dedicated to Jacques Moeschler, professor at University of Geneva, to mark the occasion of his 60th birthday.

The last decade has been one of dramatic progress in the field of Natural Language Processing (NLP).

Having been catapulted into public discourse in the last few years, this book serves as an in-depth exploration of the ever-evolving domain of artificial intelligence (AI), large language models, and ChatGPT.

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

Speech and Human-Machine Dialog focuses on the dialog management component of a spoken language dialog system.

This edited collection brings together the latest research on discourse and society in Latin America and Caribbean in one volume.

A Journey Through Cultures addresses one of the hottest topics in contemporary HCI: cultural diversity amongst users.

This book presents established and state-of-the-art methods in Language Technology (including text mining, corpus linguistics, computational linguistics, and natural language processing), and demonstrates how they can be applied by humanities scholars working with textual data.

Modal Logic is a branch of logic with applications in many related disciplines such as computer science, philosophy, linguistics and artificial intelligence.

Computational Models of Mixed-Initiative Interaction brings together research that spans several disciplines related to artificial intelligence, including natural language processing, information retrieval, machine learning, planning, and computer-aided instruction, to account for the role that mixed initiative plays in the design of intelligent systems.

In recent years, online social networking has revolutionized interpersonal communication.

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

This book sheds new light on corpus-assisted translation pedagogy, an intersection of three distinct but cognate disciplines: corpus linguistics, translation and pedagogy.

Applying Natural Language Processing (NLP) concepts to help humans in their daily life, this book discusses an automatic translation of an unstructured Natural Language Question (NLQ) into a Structured Query Language (SQL) statement.

Die Entwicklung und Verbreitung von Systemen für maschinelles Übersetzen bewirkt massive Transformationsprozesse in der Sprachdienstleistungsbranche.

The goal of text ranking is to generate an ordered list of texts retrieved from a corpus in response to a query.

Researchers in many disciplines have been concerned with modeling textual data in order to account for texts as the primary information unit of written communication.