Serge Sharoff
List of John Benjamins publications in which Serge Sharoff is involved.
Journal
2021 Genre annotation for the Web: Text-external and text-internal perspectives Register Studies 3:1, pp. 1–32 | Article
This paper describes a digital curation study aimed at comparing the composition of large Web corpora, such as enTenTen, ukWac or ruWac, by means of automatic text classification. First, the paper presents a Deep Learning model suitable for classifying texts from large Web corpora using a small… read more
2010 Balancing form and function in corpus research The Bootcamp Discourse and Beyond, Worlock Pope, Caty (ed.), pp. 419–424 | Article
2008 18. Automatic extraction of translation equivalents of phrasal and light verbs in English and Russian Phraseology: An interdisciplinary perspective, Granger, Sylviane and Fanny Meunier (eds.), pp. 293–309 | Article
This chapter aims at bridging the functionalist theoretical perspective on word usage with corpus-based studies. We are dealing with the issue of construction of reliable lists of what is called ‘phraseological units’ in general linguistics literature or ‘multi-word expressions’ (MWEs) in… read more
2006 Open-source Corpora: Using the net to fish for linguistic data International Journal of Corpus Linguistics 11:4, pp. 435–462 | Article
The paper proposes a methodology for collecting “open-source” corpora, i.e. corpora that are automatically collected from the Internet and distributed in the form of a list of links with open-source software for recreating their full text. The result is a random snapshot of Internet pages which… read more
2005 The communicative potential of verbs of “away-from” motion in English, German and Russian Functions of Language 12:2, pp. 205–240 | Article
This paper proposes a model for describing lexical semantics within systemic-functional theory. Formal approaches to lexical semantics assume that words have meanings which exist independently from communication and are represented by means of (semi-) formal definitions. Functional approaches treat… read more






