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Corpus linguistics is an empirical method for the study of language by way of a text corpus (plural corpora). [1] Corpora are balanced, often stratified collections of authentic, "real world", text of speech or writing that aim to represent a given linguistic variety . [ 1 ]
She uses corpus-based methods involving both monolingual and multilingual corpora of English and Swedish for data. She received her PhD in English Linguistics from Stockholm University in 1972. She has been an associate professor in the Department of English at Oslo University and at Lund University and is now professor emerita in the ...
Mark E. Davies (born 1963) is an American linguist. He specializes in corpus linguistics and language variation and change.He is the creator of most of the text corpora from English-Corpora.org (including the Corpus of Contemporary American English/ COCA) as well as the Corpus del español and the Corpus do português.
Her PhD dissertation was about the use of be + past participle in spoken English with a special focus on the passive. She then continued her career as a professor in English language and linguistics. In 1991, she founded the Centre for English Corpus Linguistics, whose main research focus is learner language and contrastive linguistics.
His PhD thesis was published in a book entitled Polari: The Lost Language of Gay Men (2002). A later book, Fabulosa (2019) updated the research for a non-academic audience. Baker regularly runs workshops in Polari at the Bishopsgate Institute, London. His research focuses on corpus linguistics, language and identity, and critical discourse ...
Elena Semino (born 9 September 1964) is an Italian-born British linguist whose research involves stylistics and metaphor theory.Focusing on figurative language in a range of poetic and prose works, most recently she has worked on topics from the domains of medical humanities and health communication.
In 2003, he started his own company Lexical Computing Limited delivering tools and services in corpus processing. He himself has been working as a lexicographer for a short period (1992–1995) at the Longman Dictionaries. His early research career was closely associated with word sense disambiguation (PhD thesis above). Kilgarriff argued ...
Palmer served as president of the Association for Computational Linguistics in 2005 [9] and was named an ACL Fellow in 2014 "for significant contributions to computational semantics and the development of semantic corpora". [10] In 2017, she was awarded the Helen & Hubert Croft Professorship by the University of Colorado. [11]