Contrastive and Comparable Corpora: Quantitative Aspects

Shaikevich, Anatole

doi:10.1075/ijcl.6.2.03sha

Article published In: International Journal of Corpus Linguistics
Vol. 6:2 (2001) ► pp.229–255

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Contrastive and Comparable Corpora: Quantitative Aspects

Anatole Shaikevich | Institute for Russian Language, Moscow

Published online: 8 August 2002

https://doi.org/10.1075/ijcl.6.2.03sha

This paper draws attention to the complexity of problems arising in statistical linguistics when it must compare various corpora. Those problems are discussed from the point of view of distributional statistical analysis of texts; that is, a set of formal procedures with a minimum of preconceived linguistic knowledge. The terminological distinction between contrastive and comparable corpora is introduced.

Keywords: distributional statistical analysis, contrastive corpora, comparable corpora, types of subcorpora

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