Corpus Linguistics and Linguistically Annotated Corpora

Sandra Kübler is an Assistant Professor in the Linguistics Department at Indiana University, USA.

Linguistically annotated corpora are becoming a central part of the corpus linguistics field. One of their main strengths is the level of searchability they offer, but with the annotation come problems of the initial complexity of queries and query tools. This book gives a full, pedagogic account of this burgeoning field.Beginning with an overview of corpus linguistics, its prerequisites and goals, the book then introduces linguistically annotated corpora. It explores the different levels of linguistic annotation, including morphological, parts of speech, syntactic, semantic and discourse-level, as well as advantages and challenges for such annotations. It covers the main annotated corpora for English, the Penn Treebank, the International Corpus of English, and OntoNotes, as well as a wide range of corpora for other languages. In its third part, search strategies required for different types of data are explored. All chapters are accompanied by exercises and by sections on further reading.

Provides a thorough understanding of advantages and limitations of annotated corpora within corpus linguistics.

PrefacePart I Introduction1. Corpus Linguistics2. Corpora and Linguistic AnnotationPart II Linguistic Annotation3. Linguistic Annotation on the Word Level4. Syntactic Annotation5. Semantic Annotation6. Discourse AnnotationPart III Using Linguistic Annotation in Corpus Linguistics7. Advantages and Limitations of Using Linguistically AnnotatedCorpora8. Corpus Linguistics Using Linguistically Annotated CorporaPart IV Querying Linguistically Annotated Corpora9. Concordances10. Regular Expressions11. Searching on the Word Level12. Querying Syntactic Structures13. Searching for Semantic and Discourse PhenomenaAppendix A. Penn Treebank POS Tagset 343Appendix B. ICE POS Tagset 345BibliographyIndex