1st Edition

Multilayer Corpus Studies

By Amir Zeldes Copyright 2019
284 Pages
by Routledge

284 Pages 74 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

284 Pages 74 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

This volume explores the opportunities afforded by the construction and evaluation of multilayer corpora, an emerging methodology within corpus linguistics that brings about multiple independent parallel analyses of the same linguistic phenomena, and how the interplay of these concurrent analyses can help to push the field into new frontiers. The first part of the book surveys the theoretical and... Read more

Part I: The Multilayer Approach





1. Introduction





2. Foundations





3. Tools, Formats and Multilayer Data Collection





Part II: Leveraging Multilayer Data





4. Probablistic Syntax, Agreement and Information Structure





5. Entity Models and Referentiality





6. Discourse Organization





7. Non-Standard Language





8. Conclusion

Biography

Amir Zeldes is Assistant Professor of Computational Linguistics in the Department of Linguistics at Georgetown University, USA.