Front matter -- Preface -- Contents -- Part I. Corpus design and text encoding -- The optimum corpus sample size? / de Haan, Pieter -- Corpus sampling / Clear, Jeremy -- International Corpus of English: Corpus design - problems and suggested solutions / Leitner, Gerhard -- The Northern Ireland Transcribed Corpus of Speech / Kirk, John M. -- Problems in the compilation of a corpus of standard Caribbean English: A pilot study / Mair, Christian -- The Text Encoding Initiative: A progress report / Burnard, Lou -- Part II. Automated syntactic and semantic text analysis -- Pinpointing problematic tagging decisions / Belmore, Nancy -- Inferences and lexical relations / Meijs, Willem -- Developing a scheme for annotating text to show anaphoric relations / Fligelstone, Steve -- Information retrieval and corpora / Sutton, Stephen / McEnery, Anthony -- Part III. Corpora in language description -- Relative infinitives in spoken and written English / Geisler, Christer -- Who(m)? Case marking of wh-pronouns in written British and American English / Schneider, Edgar W. -- Discourse category and text type classification: Procedural discourse in the Brown and the LOB corpora / Wikberg, Kay -- Opaque and transparent features of Indian English / Shastri, S. V. -- Computer analysis of spelling variants in Chaucer's Canterbury Tales / Barnbrook, Geoff -- Pitch contours and |