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- Title
Corpus development 25 years on: from super-corpus to cyber-corpus.
- Authors
Renouf, Antoinette
- Abstract
By the early 1980s, corpus linguists were still considered maverick and were still pushing at the boundaries of language-processing technology, but a culture was slowly bootstrapping itself into place, as successive research results (e.g. Collins-Cobuild Dictionary) encouraged the sense that empirical data analysis was a sine qua non for linguists, and a terminology of corpus linguistics was emerging that allowed ideas to take form. This paper reviews the evolution of text corpora over the period 1980 to the present day, focussing on three milestones as a means of illustrating changing definitions of 'corpus' as well as some contemporary theoretical and methodological issues. The first milestone is the 20-million-word Birmingham Corpus (1980-1986), the second is the dynamic 'corpus (1990-2004); the third is the 'Web as corpus' (1998-2004).
- Subjects
CORPORA; LINGUISTIC analysis; LINGUISTICS; LANGUAGE &; languages; COMPARATIVE grammar
- Publication
Language & Computers, 2007, Vol 62, Issue 1, p27
- ISSN
0921-5034
- Publication type
Article