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Working with specialized language : a practical guide to using corpora / Lynne Bowker and Jennifer Pearson.

By: Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextPublisher: London ; New York : Routledge, 2002Description: xiii, 242 pages : illustrations ; 24 cmContent type:
  • text
Media type:
  • unmediated
Carrier type:
  • volume
ISBN:
  • 0415236991
  • 9780415236997
Other title:
  • Working with specialised language
Subject(s): Genre/Form: DDC classification:
  • 418.00285 BOW 22
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Contents:
pt. I. Setting the scene -- Introducing corpora and corpus analysis tools -- Introducing LSP -- pt. II. Corpus design, compilation and processing -- Designing a special purpose corpus -- Compiling a special purpose corpus -- Markup and annotation -- Bilingual and multilingual corpora: pre-processing, alignment and exploitation -- Introduction to basis corpus processing tools -- pt. III. Corpus-based applications in LSP -- Building useful glossaries -- Term extraction -- Using LSP corpora as a writing guide -- Using LSP corpora as a translation resource -- Other applications and future directions.
Summary: This text is designed for users of language for special purposes (LSP). Providing guidelines and practical advice, it enables LSP users to design, build and exploit corpus resources that meet their specialized language needs.
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Includes glossary.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

pt. I. Setting the scene -- Introducing corpora and corpus analysis tools -- Introducing LSP -- pt. II. Corpus design, compilation and processing -- Designing a special purpose corpus -- Compiling a special purpose corpus -- Markup and annotation -- Bilingual and multilingual corpora: pre-processing, alignment and exploitation -- Introduction to basis corpus processing tools -- pt. III. Corpus-based applications in LSP -- Building useful glossaries -- Term extraction -- Using LSP corpora as a writing guide -- Using LSP corpora as a translation resource -- Other applications and future directions.

This text is designed for users of language for special purposes (LSP). Providing guidelines and practical advice, it enables LSP users to design, build and exploit corpus resources that meet their specialized language needs.

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