Looking back or looking forward in corpus linguistics: What can the last 20 years suggest about the next?
Starting with a description of the software and hardware used for corpus linguistics in the late 1980s to early 1990s, this contribution discusses difficulties faced by the software designer when attempting to allow users to study text. Future human-machine interfaces may develop to be much more sop...
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Asociación Europea de Lenguas para Fines Específicos
2012-10-01
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| description | Starting with a description of the software and hardware used for corpus linguistics in the late 1980s to early 1990s, this contribution discusses difficulties faced by the software designer when attempting to allow users to study text. Future human-machine interfaces may develop to be much more sophisticated, and certainly the aspects of text which can be studied will progress beyond plain text without images. Another area which will develop further is the study of patternings involving not just single words but word-relations across large stretches of text. |
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| spelling | doaj.art-d72f802d515040bfb26612b5498580982022-12-22T00:25:40ZengAsociación Europea de Lenguas para Fines EspecíficosIbérica1139-72412012-10-01247586Looking back or looking forward in corpus linguistics: What can the last 20 years suggest about the next?Mike ScottStarting with a description of the software and hardware used for corpus linguistics in the late 1980s to early 1990s, this contribution discusses difficulties faced by the software designer when attempting to allow users to study text. Future human-machine interfaces may develop to be much more sophisticated, and certainly the aspects of text which can be studied will progress beyond plain text without images. Another area which will develop further is the study of patternings involving not just single words but word-relations across large stretches of text.http://www.aelfe.org/documents/07_24_Scott.pdfhistory of corpus linguisticsMicroConcordconcordancesoftware designcollocational span |
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| title | Looking back or looking forward in corpus linguistics: What can the last 20 years suggest about the next? |
| title_full | Looking back or looking forward in corpus linguistics: What can the last 20 years suggest about the next? |
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| title_full_unstemmed | Looking back or looking forward in corpus linguistics: What can the last 20 years suggest about the next? |
| title_short | Looking back or looking forward in corpus linguistics: What can the last 20 years suggest about the next? |
| title_sort | looking back or looking forward in corpus linguistics what can the last 20 years suggest about the next |
| topic | history of corpus linguistics MicroConcord concordance software design collocational span |
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