Palc'99: Practical Applications in Language Corpora: Papers from the International Conference at the University of L?ź, 15-18 April 1999 (Paperback)

Contents: Jan Aarts: Towards a new generation of corpus-based English grammars ? Tony McEnery/Paul Baker/Andrew Hardie: Swearing and abuse in modern British English ? Mike Scott: Reverberations of an echo ? Elzbieta Dura: Lexicon-based corpus processing with Lex Ware ? Barbara Lewandowska-Tomaszczyk/Michael Oakes/Martin Wynne: Automatic alignment of Polish and English texts ? Jacek Martinek/Tomasz Obrebski/Zygmunt Vetulani: Dictionary based tools for linguistic data acquisition from texts ? Oliver Mason/Rafal Uzar: NLP meets TEFL: Tracing the zero article ? Michael P. Oakes/Chris D. Paice: Extraction of statistics-related phrases for the automatic generation of informative abstracts ? Christina Su-Hsun Tsai: Syntactic variations across texts of computer-mediated communication (CMC) and non-CMC media ? Ylva Berglund: Gonna and going to in the British National Corpus ? Frantisek Cermak: Linguistics, corpora and information ? Agnieszka Otwinowska-Kasztelanic: A corpus study of contemporary spoken Polish of the younger generation of Poles (19-35 years of age) ? Anna Baczkowska: Creating a corpus of spoken English of Polish EFL learners ? Natalya Gvishiani: Contrastive corpus-based analysis (applications in ELT and translation) ? Przemyslaw Kaszubski: Lexical profiling of English (learner) corpora: can we measure advancement levels? ? Agnieszka Lenko-Szymanska: Passive and active vocabulary knowledge in advanced learners of English ? Barbara Lewandowska-Tomaszczyk/Agnieszka Lenko-Szymanska/Anthony McEnery: Lexical problem areas in the PELCRA learner corpus of English ? Vladimira Minovska: Czech subcorpus of the International Corpus of Learner English (ICLE) ? Yukio Tono: A corpus-based analysis of interlanguage development: Analysing POS tag sequences of EFL learner corpora ? Wieslaw Babik: The application of the terminological dictionary for creating hypertext ? Anna Baczkowska: The semantic analysis of word combinations in a learner EFL corpus ? Ronan Pichon/Pascale Sebillot: From corpus to lexicon: From contexts to semantic features ? Danko ?ipka: The use of corpora in special lexicography: Two case studies ? Stella E. O. Tagnin: Collecting data for a bilingual dictionary of verbal collocations: From scraps of paper to corpora research ? Tony McEnery/Paul Baker: Minority language engineering ? Dana ?lancarova-Kacenka: Parallel corpus of English and Czech texts ? Ludmila Urbanova: The Czech and English parallel electronic corpus CAPEK ? Rafal Uzar/Jacek Walinski: A comparability toolkit: Some practical issues for terminology extraction ? Tony Valsamidis/Maggie Cooper: A lexicological approach to proper name identification in Italian and French news stories ? Alejandro Curado/M. Jose Garcia Berzosa: Dealing with small representative corpora in ESP ? Alice Henderson: The society words keep: Teaching applications of an English sociological corpus ? Randall L. Jones: Textbook German and authentic spoken German: a corpus-based comparison ? Przemyslaw Ostalski: Computer assisted language learning using Visual Basic and MSWord ? Lynne Bowker: Using a corpus to assess student translations: A pilot study ? Jennifer Pearson: Using specialized comparable corpora to evaluate student translations ? Stanislaw Gozdz-Roszkowski: Using parallel corpora to analyse the language of contracts in English and Polish ? Anna Taczalska: Structure of medical research articles in Polish and English comparable corpora.