Designing and Evaluating Language Corpora: A Practical Framework for Corpus Representativeness

Egbert, Jesse; Biber, Douglas; Gray, Bethany

ISBN 10: 1107151384 / ISBN 13: 9781107151383

Published by Cambridge University Press, 2022

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Title: Designing and Evaluating Language Corpora: A...

Publisher: Cambridge University Press

Publication Date: 2022

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: New

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Corpora are ubiquitous in linguistic research, yet to date, there has been no consensus on how to conceptualize corpus representativeness and collect corpus samples. This pioneering book bridges this gap by introducing a conceptual and methodological framework for corpus design and representativeness. Written by experts in the field, it shows how corpora can be designed and built in a way that is both optimally suited to specific research agendas, and...

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