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Books: Text/Corpus Linguistics: Geoff Barnbrook

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    Message 1: Defining Language: Geoff Barnbrook

     Date: Thu, 14 Nov 2002 14:40:39 +0000
    From: paul <paulbenjamins.com>
    Subject: Defining Language: Geoff Barnbrook


    Title: Defining Language Subtitle: A local grammar of definition sentences Series Title: Studies in Corpus Linguistics 11 Publication Year: 2002 Publisher: John Benjamins http://www.benjamins.com/, http://www.benjamins.nl Book URL: http://www.benjamins.com/cgi-bin/t_bookview.cgi?bookid=SCL_11 Author: Geoff Barnbrook, University of Birmingham Hardback: ISBN: 1588112985, Pages: xvi, 281, Price: USD 79.00 Hardback: ISBN: 9027222819, Pages: xvi, 281, Price: EUR 88.00

    Abstract:

    Definition is a basic activity of language, of particular importance to linguists because of its use of language to describe itself. Beyond this inherent significance as a crucial element of language study, definitions also provide a rich potential source of the information needed for Natural Language Processing systems. This book describes an investigation of the subset of general language used in definition sentences and the development of a taxonomy of definition types, a grammar of definition sentences and parsing software which can extract their functional components. The work is based on definition sentences used in one of the dictionaries from the Cobuild range, and the book includes a brief history of the development of monolingual English dictionaries, an assessment of the concepts of sublanguages and local grammars and a full exploration of the results of the analysis and of the present and future applications of the taxonomy, grammar and parser.

    Table of Contents

    Acknowledgements vii Brief description ix 1. Language, definitions and dictionaries 1 2. Monolingual English dictionaries 15 3. Grammars, parsers, sublanguages and local grammars 59 4. Methodology 97 5. The definition type taxonomy 135 6. The definition language grammar and its parser 161 7. Evaluation and applications 213 Appendix 1 253 Appendix 2 257 Appendix 3 Simon Krek 263 Bibliography 269 Index 273

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