PALC’99: Practical Applications in Language Corpora: Papers from the International Conference at the University of Łódź, 15-18 April 1999 (Lodz Studies in Language 1)

The papers in this volume are centred on the general field of corpus linguistics and the varying types of language corpora within it. The papers show that corpus linguistics and the related subject of computational linguistics is a vibrant research area with a wide range of approaches. They address a number of key issues in the research areas of learner corpora, parallel corpora, translation, semantic and lexicography, corpus analysis and expert systems. Finally, a number of contributors come from different language backgrounds and this is reflected in their papers.

The Editors: Barbara Lewandowska-Tomaszczyk is a graduate of the University of Łódź , where she is currently Professor Ordinarius and Chair of English Language. Her research interests are primarily in semantics and the pragmatics of natural language, corpus linguistics, and their applications in translation studies and lexicography.
Patrick James Melia M.A. is a graduate of the Institute of Education, London University. He is a British Council funded Senior Lecturer in the Department of English Language, Łódź University. He teaches applied linguistics, foreign language teaching methodology and topics in SLA. His research interests are in second language learning/acquisition and learner corpora.