Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents vii
3. Introduction 1
4. Acknowledgements 3
5. Abbreviations 4
6. 1. Why use a computer? 5
7. 2. First capture your data 23
8. 3. Examining the catch: the use of frequency lists 43
9. 4. Studying the environment: using concordances 65
10. 5. The sociology of words: collocation analysis 87
11. 6. Putting them in their place: tagging, parsing and so on 107
12. 7. The leading edge: applications of natural language processing 131
13. 8. Case studies 149
14. Glossary 167
15. Appendix 1. Programming languages for language programming 173
16. Appendix 2. awk: a very brief introduction 177
17. Appendix 3. Detailed programming examples 187
18. Appendix 4. Suggestions for the exercises 199
19. References 205
20. Index 207