Meaningful Texts: The Extraction of Semantic Information from Monolingual and Multilingual Corpora

Author:   Geoff Barnbrook ,  Dr Pernilla Danielsson ,  Professor Michaela Mahlberg (FAU Erlangen-Nürnberg, Germany)
Publisher:   Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
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9780826474902


Pages:   242
Publication Date:   01 December 2004
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Contains papers which focus on meaning, studied not only in monolingual environments, but also contrastively in multilingual contexts.

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Author:   Geoff Barnbrook ,  Dr Pernilla Danielsson ,  Professor Michaela Mahlberg (FAU Erlangen-Nürnberg, Germany)
Publisher:   Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
Imprint:   Continuum International Publishing Group Ltd.
Edition:   New edition
Dimensions:   Width: 15.60cm , Height: 1.40cm , Length: 23.40cm
Weight:   0.510kg
ISBN:  

9780826474902


ISBN 10:   082647490
Pages:   242
Publication Date:   01 December 2004
Audience:   General/trade ,  College/higher education ,  Professional and scholarly ,  General ,  Undergraduate
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   In Print   Availability explained
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Language:   English

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The 21 chapters that make up this edited collection take the reader across a range of interesting and diverse topics. The use of corpora to explore a variety of issues from machine translation to teaching implications creates a link between the different chapters. An impressive range of languages is represented, including Lithuanian, Czech, Chinese, French, and Hungarian. As the title states, the studies include work with both monolingual and multilingual corpora, and the type of corpora is used as an organizing feature...This work addresses a range of interesting topics through well-written chapters. Readers interested in the breadth of topics and languages that can be addressed through corpus explorations will find this a useful collection. -Randi Reppen, Studies in Second Language Acquisition, December 2008


The 21 chapters that make up this edited collection take the reader across a range of interesting and diverse topics. The use of corpora to explore a variety of issues from machine translation to teaching implications creates a link between the different chapters. An impressive range of languages is represented, including Lithuanian, Czech, Chinese, French, and Hungarian. As the title states, the studies include work with both monolingual and multilingual corpora, and the type of corpora is used as an organizing feature...This work addresses a range of interesting topics through well-written chapters. Readers interested in the breadth of topics and languages that can be addressed through corpus explorations will find this a useful collection. --Randi Reppen, Studies in Second Language Acquisition, December 2008


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Geoff Barnbrook is Lecturer in English Language in the Department of English, University of Birmingham.  Pernilla Danielsson is Academic Director of the Centre for Corpus Research, University of Birmingham. Michaela Mahlberg is Humboldt-Professor and Professor of Digital Humanities at FAU Erlangen-Nürnberg, Germany.

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