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Record Nr.

UNINA9910781530403321

Autore

Nelson Gerald <1959->

Titolo

Exploring natural language [[electronic resource] ] : working with the British component of the international corpus of English / / Gerald Nelson, Sean Wallis, Bas Aarts

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Amsterdam ; ; Philadelphia, : John Benjamins Pub. Co., c2002

ISBN

1-283-35831-X

9786613358318

90-272-7535-1

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (360 p.)

Collana

Varieties of English around the world. General series ; ; v. G29

Altri autori (Persone)

WallisSean

AartsBas <1961->

Disciplina

427

Soggetti

English language - Variation - Great Britain

English language - Spoken English - Great Britain

English language - Written English - Great Britain

English language - Great Britain

Computational linguistics

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references (p. [301]-306) and index.

Nota di contenuto

pt. 1. Introducing the corpus -- pt. 2. Exploring the corpus -- pt. 3. Performing research with the corpus -- pt. 4. The future of the corpus.

Sommario/riassunto

ICE-GB is a 1 million-word corpus of contemporary British English. It is fully parsed, and contains over 83,000 syntactic trees. Together with the dedicated retrieval software, ICECUP, ICE-GB is an unprecedented resource for the study of English syntax.Exploring Natural Language is a comprehensive guide to both corpus and software. It contains a full reference for ICE-GB. The chapters on ICECUP provide complete instructions on the use of the many features of the software, including concordancing, lexical and grammatical searches, sociolinguistic queries, random sampling, and searching for synt