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Record Nr.

UNINA9910790007403321

Titolo

Exploring newspaper language : using the web to create and investigate a large corpus of modern Norwegian / / editor, Gisle Andersen

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Amsterdam ; ; Philadelphia : , : John Benjamins Pub. Co., , 2012

ISBN

1-280-49766-1

9786613592897

90-272-7499-1

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (362 pages)

Collana

Studies in corpus linguistics, , 1388-0373 ; ; v. 49

Altri autori (Persone)

AndersenGisle

Disciplina

439.8/20188

Soggetti

Norwegian language (Nynorsk) - Usage

Norwegian language (Nynorsk) - Syntax

Norwegian newspapers

Mass media - Norway

Information technology - Norway

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and indexes.

Nota di contenuto

pt. 1. Exploiting the web as a corpus : methods and tools -- pt. 2. Corpus-based case studies.

Sommario/riassunto

This book describes new methodological and technological approaches to corpus building and presents recent research based on the Norwegian Newspaper Corpus. This is a large monitor corpus of contemporary Norwegian language, compiled through daily harvesting of web newspapers. The book gives an overview of the corpus and its system architecture, and presents tools used for tasks such as text harvesting, annotation, topic classification and extraction and frequency profiling of new words and phrases. Among the innovative technologies is Corpuscle, a corpus query engine and management system which