Issues related to the construction of a purpose-built domain-specific word corpus

Australian Journal of Educational and Developmental Psychology

Volumn 4, Issue , 2004, Pages 13-28

  Thomas, Lisa ^a   Pfister, H Peter ^a   Peterson, Peter ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NEWCASTLE   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

EID: 3042644280     PISSN: 14465442     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

References (54)

1. Althiede, D. L. (1996). Qualitative Media Analysis. Thousand Oaks CA: Sage.
2. Baayen, H. (1993). Statistical models for word frequency distributions: A linguistic evaluation. Computers and the Humanities, 26, 347-363.
3. Baker-Brown, G., Ballard, E. J., Bluck, S., de Vries, B., Suedfeld, P., & Tetlock, P. (1992). The conceptual/integrative complexity scoring manual. In C. P. Smith (Ed.), Motivation and Personality: Handbook of thematic content analysis (pp. 401-418). Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
4. Balasubrahmanyan, V., & Naranan, S. (1996). Qualitative linguistics and complex system studies. Journal of Qualitative Linguistics, 3(3), 177-228.
5. Beardsworth, C. (1980). Analysing press content. In H. Christian (Ed.), The Sociology of Journalism and the Press (pp. 371-395). Staffordshire: University of Keele.
6. Berry-Rogghe, G. (1974). The computation of collocations and their relevance in lexical studies. In A. Aitken, R. Bailey & N. Hamilton-Smith (Eds.), The Computer and Literary Studies. Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press.
7. Biber, D. (1988). Variation Across Speech and Writing. Cambridge England: Cambridge University Press.
8. Biber, D. (1993). The multi-dimensional approach to linguistic analysis of genre variation: An overview of methodology and findings. Computers and the Humanities, 26, 331-345.
9. Burgess, C., & Livesay, K. (1998). The effect of corpus size in predicting reaction time in a basic word recognition task: Moving on from Kucera and Francis. Behavior Research Methods, Instruments, & Computers, 30(2), 272-277.
10. Burrows, J. F. (1987b). Word patterns and story shapes: The statistical analysis of narrative style. Journal of the Association for Literary and Linguistic Computing, 2(2), 61-70.
11. Caudery, T. (1992). Review of Frequency Analysis of English Vocabulary and Grammar Based on the LOB Corpus in two volumes by Stig Johansson and Knut Hofland (1989). English Studies, 73(3), 276-279.
12. Chafe, W. (1986). Writing in the perspective of speaking. In C. Cooper & S. Greenbaum (Eds.), Writing in the perspective of speaking (pp. 12-39). Beverly Hills, CA: Sage.
13. Chen, Y. (1991). Zipf's law in natural languages, programming languages, and command languages: the Simon-Yule approach. International Journal of Systems Science, 22(11), 2299-2312.
14. Chomsky, N. (1957). Syntactic Structures. The Hague: Mouton.
15. Collins, P., & Blair, D. (Eds.). (1989). Australian English: the Language of a New Society. St. Lucia: The University of Queensland Press.
16. Cornelius, S. (1989). A comparison of magazine articles from "The Bulletin" and "Newsweek" magazines based on readers' perceptions of differences between American and Australian English. Working Papers of the Speech, Hearing and Language Research Centre, 71-110.
17. Coulthard, M. (1994). On the use of corpora in the analysis of forensic texts. Forensic Linguistics, 1(1), 27-43.
18. Davis, M., Dunning, T., & Ogden, B. (1995). Text alignment in the real world: Improving alignments of noisy translations using common lexical features, string matching strategies and N-gram comparisons.: European Association for Computation Linguistics.
19. de Sola Pool, I. (1959). Trends in content analysis today: A summary. In I. de Sola Pool (Ed.), Trends in Content Analysis (pp. 189-233). Urbana IL: University of Illinois Press.
20. Delcourt, C. (1992). About the statistical analysis of co-occurrence. Computers and the Humanities, 26, 21-29.
21. Francis, W. N., & Kucera, H. (1982). Frequency Analysis of English Usage: Lexicon and Grammar. Boston MA: Houghton Mifflin.
22. Halliday, M. (1994). An Introduction to Functional Grammar ( 2nd ed.). London: Arnold.
23. Haskel, P. (1971). Collocations as a measure of stylistic variety. In R. Wisbey (Ed.), The Computer in Literary and Linguistic Research (pp. 159-168). Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
24. Hayes, D. (1988). Speaking and writing: Distinct patterns of word choice. Journal of Memory and Language, 27(5), 572-585.
25. Herdan, G. (1964). Quantitative Linguistics. London: Butterworths.
26. Hickey, R. (1994). Applications of software in the compilation of corpora. In M. Kyto, M. Rissanen & S. Wright (Eds.), Corpora Across the Centuries: Proceedings of the First International Colloquium on English Diachronic Corpora (pp. 165-186). Atlanta GA: Rodopi.
27. Hofland, K., & Johansson, S. (1982). Word Frequencies in British and American English. Bergen: Norwegian Computing Centre for the Humanities.
28. Holmes, D. (1994). Authorship attribution. Computers and the Humanities, 28(2), 87-106.
29. Ide, N. (1989). A statistical measure of theme and structure. Computers and the Humanities, 23, 277-283.
30. Ide, N., & Walker, D. (1993). Introduction: Common methodologies in humanities computing and computational linguistics. Computers and the Humanities, 26, 327-330.
31. Iker, H. (1974). An historical note on the use of word-frequency contiguities in content analysis. Computers and the Humanities, 8, 93-98. ISSN 1446-5442 Web site: http://www.newcastle.edu.au/journal/ajedp/
32. Johansson, S. (1985). Word frequency and text type: Some observations based on the LOB corpus of British English texts. Computers and the Humanities, 19(1), 23-36.
33. Kennedy, G. (1992). Preferred ways of putting things. In J. Svartvik (Ed.), Directions in Corpus Linguistics. Berlin: Mouton de Gruyter.
34. Kilgarriff, A., & Rosenzweig, J. (2000). Framework and results for English SENSEVAL. Computers and the Humanities, 34, 15-48.
35. Landini, G. (2000). Zipf's laws in the Voynich Manuscript. Available: http://web.bham.ac.uk/G.Landini/evmt/zipf.htm [2000, 29 August].
36. Li, W. (1992). Random texts exhibit Zipf's-law-like word frequency distribution. IEEE Transactions on Information Theory, 36(6), 1842-1845.
37. Liiv, H. (1997). A method for singling out representative linguistic features. Journal of Qualitative Linguistics, 4(1-3), 139-142.
38. Manning, C., & Schutze, H. (1999). Foundations of Statistical Natural Language Processing. Cambridge MA: MIT Press.
39. McEnery, T., & Wilson, A. (1996). Corpus Linguistics. Edinburgh: Edinburgh University.
40. McKechnie, J. (Ed.). (1987). Webster's New Universal Unabridged Dictionary (2nd ed.). New York: Simon & Schuster.
41. Ramson, W. (1966). Australian English: An historical study of the vocabulary, 1788-1898. Canberra: Australian National University Press.
42. Ridley, D. R., & Gonzales, E. A. (1994). Zipf's law extended to small samples of adult speech. Perceptual and Motor Skills, 79, 53-154.
43. Roller, E., Mathes, R., & Eckert, T. (1995). Hermeneutic-classificatory Content Analysis. In U. Kelle (Ed.), Computer-aided Qualitative Data Analysis (pp. 167-176). London: Sage.
44. Sampson, G. (1987). Evidence against the "grammatical"/"ungrammatical" distinction. In W. Meijs (Ed.), Corpus Linguistics and Beyond. Amsterdam: Rodopi.
45. Saporta, S., & Sebeok, T. A. (1959). Linguistics and content analysis. In I. de Sola Pool (Ed.), Trends in Content Analysis (pp. 131-150). Urbana IL: University of Illinois Press.
46. Sichel, H. (1986). Word frequency disributions and type-token characteristics. Mathematical Scientist, 11, 45-72.
47. Sinclair, J. (1991). Corpus, Concordance, Collocation. Oxford: Oxford University Press.
48. Solomon, G. (1990). Psychology of novice and expert wine talk. American Journal of Psychology, 103(4), 495-515.
49. Taylor, B. (1989). American, British and other foreign influences on Australian English since World War II. In P. Collins & D. Blair (Eds.), Australian English: the Language of a New Society. St. Lucia: University of Queensland Press.
50. Toglia, M. P., Battig, W. F. et al. (1978). Handbook of Semantic Word Norms. Hillsdale NJ: Lawrence Erlbaum Associates.
51. Trask, R. L. (1993). A Dictionary of Grammatical Terms in Linguistics. London: Routledge.
52. Turner, G. R. (1997, August 9 1997). Relationship between vocabulary, text length and Zipf's law. Available: http://www.btinternet.com/∼g.r.turner/ZipfDoc.htm [1999, December 19].
53. Yule, G. U. (1944). The Statistical Study of Literary Vocabulary. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
54. Zipf, G. K. (1949). Human Behavior and the Principle of Least Effort. New York: Hafner.