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In:Applications of Pattern-driven Methods in Corpus Linguistics:
Edited by Joanna Kopaczyk and Jukka Tyrkkö
[Studies in Corpus Linguistics 82] 2018
► pp. 107–130

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Chapter 5
Constance and variability

Using PoS-grams to find phraseologies in the language of newspapers

 | Università degli Studi di Sassari
 | Università degli Studi di Sassari
Published online: 13 March 2018
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https://doi.org/10.1075/scl.82.05pin
Abstract
This paper describes the use of a corpus-driven methodology, the retrieval of part-of-speech-grams (PoS-grams), which is extremely effective for the discovery of phraseologies that might otherwise remain hidden. The PoS-gram is a string of part-of-speech categories (Stubbs 2007: 91), the tokens of which are strings of words that have been annotated with these PoS tags. A list of PoS-grams retrieved from a sample corpus can be compared with that from a reference corpus. Statistically significant items are further analysed to identify recurrent patterns and potential phraseologies. The utility of PoS-grams will be illustrated by way of analysis of a one million token corpus composed of texts from ten sections of The Guardian, the Sassari Newspaper Article Corpus (SNAC).
Article outline
  • 1.Introduction
  • 2.Materials and methods
  • 3.Results and discussion
    • 3.1Travel PoS-grams
    • 3.2Crime PoS-grams
    • 3.3Obituaries PoS-grams
  • 4.Conclusions
  • Notes
  • References
  • Appendix
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