Computational and corpus linguistics

This book presents the methods, tools and techniques that are currently being used to recognise (automatically) the affect, emotion, personality and everything else beyond linguistics ( paralinguistics ) expressed by or embedded in human speech and language.

Most of the books about computational (lexical) semantic lexicons deal with the depth (or content) aspect of lexicons, ignoring the breadth (or coverage) aspect.

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 standard scientific methodology in linguistics is empirical testing of falsifiable hypotheses.

conceptual, realist) theories of predication.

The book presents a wide range of recent research results about parsing schemata, introducing formal frameworks and theoretical results while keeping a constant focus on applicability to practical parsing problems.

In the last years, it was observed an increasing interest of computer scientists in the structure of biological molecules and the way how they can be manipulated in vitro in order to define theoretical models of computation based on genetic engineering tools.

This volume provides an up-to-date survey of the field of corpus linguistics, a field whose methodology has revolutionized much of the empirical work done in most fields of linguistic study over the past decade.

Introduces the integration of theoretical and applied translation studies for socially-oriented and data-driven empirical translation research.

Contemporary data analytics involves extracting insights from data and translating them into action.

This book presents a theoretical study on aspect in Chinese, including both situation and viewpoint aspects.

The history of modern European languages has been largely determined by the range of functions they have acquired, particularly after 1500.

This book presents a comprehensive study on the phenomenon of projection in English language, drawing upon Halliday's systemic functional linguistics (SFL) model.

The last decades have witnessed a renewed interest in near-synonymy.

This book presents a collection of original research articles that showcase the state of the art of research in corpus and computational linguistic approaches to Chinese language teaching, learning and assessment.

This book sheds new light on the nature of gerunds in English, utilizing data from very large electronic corpora in order to compare pairs of patterns viewed as constructions.

Computational semantics is concerned with computing the meanings of linguistic objects such as sentences, text fragments, and dialogue contributions.

Many NLP tasks have at their core a subtask of extracting the dependencies-who did what to whom-from natural language sentences.

Can machines think?

This new volume is the first to focus entirely on automated essay scoring and evaluation.

The last decades have witnessed a renewed interest in near-synonymy.

The COVID-19 pandemic has led to a host of critical reflections about discourse practises dealing with public health issues.

Quantitative Linguistics is a rapidly developing discipline covering more and more areas of linguistic and textological research.

Do you want to gain a deeper understanding of how big tech analyses and exploits our text data, or investigate how political parties differ by analysing textual styles, associations and trends in documents?

The corpus-based studies in this volume explore biomedical research writing in English from a variety of perspectives.

This book considers how people talk about the location of objects and places.

The second volume of the two-volume set The Fruits of Empirical Linguistics focuses on the linguistic outcomes of empirical linguistics.

Essential reading for understanding genre innovation and evolution in relation to Web 2.

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

**Shortlisted for the 2021 BAAL Book Prize for an outstanding book in the field of Applied Linguistics**Situated at the interface of corpus linguistics and health communication, Corpus, Discourse and Mental Health provides insights into the linguistic practices of members of three online support communities as they describe their experiences of living with and managing different mental health problems, including anorexia nervosa, depression and diabulimia.

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

Poland has played an enormous role in the development of mathematical logic.

The book covers theoretical work, approaches, applications, and techniques for computational models of information, language, and reasoning.