Cluster Analysis for Corpus Linguistics - Couverture rigide

Moisl, Hermann

Couverture rigide

ISBN 10 : 3110350254 ISBN 13 : 9783110350258

Editeur : De Gruyter Mouton, 2015

Synopsis

The standard scientific methodology in linguistics is empirical testing of falsifiable hypotheses. As such the process of hypothesis generation is central, and involves formulation of a research question about a domain of interest and statement of a hypothesis relative to it. In corpus linguistics the domain is text, and generation involves abstraction of data from text, data analysis, and formulation of a hypothesis based on inference from the results. Traditionally this process has been paper-based, but the advent of electronic text has increasingly rendered it obsolete both because the size of digital corpora is now at or beyond the limit of what can efficiently be used in the traditional way, and because the complexity of data abstracted from them can be impenetrable to understanding. Linguists are increasingly turning to mathematical and statistical computational methods for help, and cluster analysis is such a method. It is used across the sciences for hypothesis generation by identification of structure in data which are too large or complex, or both, to be interpretable by direct inspection. This book aims to show how cluster analysis can be used for hypothesis generation in corpus linguistics, thereby contributing to a quantitative empirical methodology for the discipline.

A propos du livre

À propos de l'auteur

Hermann Moisl, Newcastle University, Newcastle upon Tyne, UK.

À propos de la quatrième de couverture

The rapidly growing volume of digital natural language text and the complexity of data abstracted from it have increasingly rendered traditional corpus linguistic analytical methodology obsolete, and linguists are turning to mathematically and statistically based computational methodologies developed in other scientific disciplines for help. Cluster analysis is one of these. This book describes a cluster analytic methodology for generating linguistic hypotheses on the basis of data abstracted from language corpora.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: De Gruyter Mouton
• Date d'édition: 2015
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 3110350254
• ISBN 13: 9783110350258
• Reliure: Relié
• Nombre de pages: 396
• Coordonnées du fabricant: Walter de Gruyter GmbH; productsafety@degruyterbrill.com; ; Genthiner Straße 13; Berlin; 10785; Allemagne