Corpus Linguistics, Computer Tools, and Applications - State of the Art

Contents: Barbara Lewandowska-Tomaszczyk: PALC 2007: Where are we now? Paul Rayson/Dawn Archer/Alistair Baron/Nicholas Smith: Travelling through time with corpus annotation software Eugene H. Casad: Parsing texts and compiling a dictionary with shoebox Belinda Maia/Rui Silva/Anabela Barreiro/Cecília Fróis: 'N-grams in search of theories' Piotr Pzik/Jung-jae Kim/Dietrich Rebholz-Schuhmann: MedEvi - A permuted concordancer for the biomedical domain Patrick Hanks: Why the «word sense disambiguation problem» can't be solved, and what should be done instead Rafa

Auteur

The Editor: Barbara Lewandowska-Tomaszczyk is Professor Ordinarius of English language and linguistics at the University of Lódz (Poland), where she holds the position of Chair of English Language and Applied Linguistics. She is also honorary professor in linguistics and modern English language at the University of Lancaster (UK).

Résumé
«PALC celebrates its 10th anniversary with a bumper conference proceeding - comprising papers on challenges related to learners of English, machine and human translation, terminology extraction, subtitling and challenges related to the role of the ubiquitous Internet in teaching and learning of languages. And, if this was not enough there are two papers related to what the authors call the equivalent of a GUT (grand unified theory) of language. PALC is a conference which always has had an exciting mix of scholars, looking at language from different perspectives but unified in using text corpora, and now speech corpora, and in substantiating their claims through the use of the corpora. And, it is in PALC that West is now meeting East: the Anglo-American-Continental linguists are finding about central and eastern European scholarship; a touch of Chinese and Arabic language scholarship makes PALC a heady mix. These proceedings should and will be widely read.» (Khurshid Ahmad, Professor of Computer Science, Department of Computer Science, Trinity College, Dublin)