A critical look at software tools in corpus linguistics

• 발행기관: 경희대학교 언어정보연구소
• 저자명: Laurence Anthony
• 간행물 정보: 『언어연구』제30권 제2호, 141~161쪽, 전체 21쪽
• 주제분류: 인문학 > 언어학
• 파일형태: PDF
• 발행일자: 2013.08.31

영문 초록

Corpora are often referred to as the 'tools' of corpus linguistics. However, it is important to recognize that corpora are simply linguistic data and that specialized software tools are required to view and analyze them. The functionality offered by software tools largely dictates what corpus linguistics research methods are available to a researcher, and hence, the design of tools will become an increasingly important factor as corpora become larger and the statistical analysis of linguistic data becomes increasingly complex. In this paper, I will first discuss how separating the data from the tools resolves various issues that are hotly debated within the field. Next, I will offer a critical look at the development of four generations of corpus tools, discussing their strengths and weaknesses. Then, I will discuss the role of programming in corpus linguistics tools creation and present a model for the development of future corpus tools. Finally, I will show a real-world example of a next-generation corpus tool that was developed for use in language learning. (Waseda University)

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Abstract

1. Introduction

2. Separating the data from the tool in corpus linguistics

3. Advances in software tools development for corpora analyses

4. A proposal for future corpus tool software design

5. Summary and conclusions

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키워드

corpus linguistics software tools history future programming