Lecture 9 The story of corpus linguistics, from past to future

What do we mean by “corpus linguist”?

• ‘corpus linguist’ –someone who uses corpus data in their research
• a researcher into the methodology, especially one who develops new methods and enables other linguists to apply them

• Dr. Djumabaeva J., English Philology Department, NUU, Tashkent

Two other directions of development for corpus linguistics

• Dr. Djumabaeva J., English Philology Department, NUU, Tashkent

Revisiting old friends: computational linguistics

• What is Computational linguistics?
• At the most theoretical level - developing computational models of the language system
• Practical level - developing software
• … software may be developed to analyse language input, as in speech recognition, or syntactic or semantic parsing; or to produce a language output. In cases such as machine translation – automatic conversion of text in one human language to another (see Somers 2003 or Nirenburg et al. 2003 for an overview) – processing of both language input and language output is involved.

• Dr. Djumabaeva J., English Philology Department, NUU, Tashkent