Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents v
3. Acknowledgements ix
4. Abbreviations xi
5. 1 What is Computer Corpus Lexicography (CCL)?
6. 1.0 Introduction 1
7. 1.1 Developing notions of the lexicon 3
8. 1.2 Lexical content 11
9. 1.3 Lexical form 16
10. 1.4 Conclusion and the organisation of this book 19
11. 1.5 Study questions 20
12. 1.6 Further reading 21
13. Notes 21
14. 2 The lexicon in Computational Linguistics (CLl), Computational Lexicography (CL2), and Corpus Linguistics (CL3)
15. 2.0 Introduction 23
16. 2.1 What is Computational Linguistics ( CL1)? 23
17. 2.2 What is Computational Lexicography (CL2)? 29
18. 2.3 What is Corpus Linguistics (CL3)? 34
19. 2.4 The interdependence and convergence ofCL1, CL2, and CL3 37
20. 2.5 The TEl for the emergence of textual and lexical standards 39
21. 2.6 The notion of the reusability oflexical resources 40
22. 2.7 The core-reusable multifunctional lexicon 42
23. 2.8 The polytheoreticallexicon 43
24. 2. 9 Conclusion 44
25. 2.10 Study questions 45
26. 2.11 Further reading 45
27. Notes 45
28. 3 Corpus evidence and lexicon-based language modelling
29. 3.0 Introduction 47
30. 3.1 Types oflexicographic and lexical evidence 47
31. 3.2 The corpus as a lexical resource: the issue of representativeness 52
32. 3.3 Corpus size and the 'Bank of English' 55
33. 3.4 The search for units of meaning 57
34. 3.5 Conclusion 63
35. 3.6 Study questions 63
36. 3. 7 Further reading 65
37. Notes 65
38. 4 Methods oflexical acquisition: 'Learning' a lexicon for real texts from real text
39. 4.0 Introduction 67
40. 4.1 The relation between the lexicon and the corpus 67
41. 4.2 Manual lexical acquisition 73
42. 4.3 Automatic and semi-automatic lexical acquisition 75
43. 4.4 The lexicographer/linguist's workbench for lexical acquisition 80
44. 4.5 A framework for lexical analysis 86
45. 4.6 Conclusion 87
46. 4. 7 Study questions 88
47. 4. 8 Further reading 89
48. Notes 89
49. 5 Computational storage of the lexicon
50. 5.0 Introduction 91
51. 5.1 The question of formalism 91
52. 5.2 Lexical database vs lexical knowledge base? 94
53. 5.3 The notion of inheritance 95
54. 5.4 The DATR lexical knowledge representation language 97
55. 5.5 The ACQUILEX lexical knowledge base 100
56. 5.6 The PROLEX Prolog lexical database 101
57. 5.7 The WORDNET lexical database of English 104
58. 5.8 The CELEX lexical database 106
59. 5.9 Using the World Wide Web for lexical research 118
60. 5.10 Conclusion 119
61. 5.11 Study questions 119
62. 5.12 Further reading 121
63. Notes 121
64. 6 A case study: Applying the LFA framework to two corpora of business English
65. 6.0 Introduction 123
66. 6.1 The notions of sublanguage, genre, and register 123
67. 6.2 The PROLEX corpus 125
68. 6.3 The PROCOMPARE corpus 131
69. 6.4 Corpus tagging 135
70. 6.5 Corpus syntactic parsing 137
71. 6.6 Corpus word-extraction 143
72. 6.7 Corpus collocation 143
73. 6.8 Corpus semantic tagging and parsing 145
74. 6. 9 Corpus pragmatics 145
75. 6.10 Structuring lexical entries from the PROLEX and PROCOMPARE corpora 149
76. 6.11 A discussion of the PRO LEX and PROCOMPARE specimen lexical entries 161
77. 6.12 Conclusion 171
78. 6.13 Study questions 172
79. 6.14 Further reading 172
80. Notes 172
81. 7 Conclusion: Towards a more adequate concept of the lexicon 173
82. Appendix A: Specimen lexical entries 177
83. Appendix B: Some World Wide Web sites for CL 1, CL2, and CL3 211
84. Appendix C: Suggested solutions to exercises 215
85. Bibliography 219
86. Index 241