Teaching and Language Corpora is suitable for language teachers in higher secondary and tertiary education and applied linguistics specialists who have an interest in learner-centred approaches. Linguistic Information from Computer Text Corpora Longman , London. This is the first book to survey the growing field of research known as corpus annotation. Increasingly, it is seen as essential to annotate a corpus linguistically in order to successfully extract information from it. These tasks are typically carried out by a combination of automatic and manual techniques, the automatic techniques often involving innovative probabilistic models of language.
Early chapters introduce the different levels and techniques of corpus annotation.
Later chapters deal with software developments, applications, and the development of standards for the evaluation of corpus annotation. All three editors teach at Lancaster University, and are well known for their work in linguistics, computer science and corpus-based language research. Roger Garside is Senior Lecturer in the Department of Computing, Geoffrey Leech is Research Professor in English Linguistics, and Tony McEnery is Lecturer in Linguistics and Modern English Language. Introducing corpus annotation Geoffrey Leech 2. Grammatical tagging Geoffrey Leech 3.