Meaningful Texts: The Extraction of Semantic Information from Monolingual and Multilingual Corpora [Hardcover]

Reflects the growing influence of corpus linguistics on areas such as lexicography, translation studies, genre analysis and language teaching. ...the articles are interesting to read and methods introduced are applicable to different phenomena...the book can be recommended for those who are interested in corpus-based linguistics and corpus-based translation studies, especially if their research is concerned with Slavonic or Baltic languages. -- The Linguist List, May 2005 The Linguist List

Part One Monolingual Corpora
1. Extracting concepts from dynamic legislative text collections
Gael Dias, Sara Madeira and Jose Gabriel Pereira Lopes
2. A diachronic genre corpus: problems and findings from the DIALAYMED-Corpus (DIAchronic Multilingual Corpus of LAYman-oriented MEDical Texts)
Eva Martha Eckkrammer
3. Word meaning in dictionaries, corpora and the speaker's mind
Christiane Fellbaum, Lauren Delfs, Susanne Wolff and Martha Palmer
4. Extracting meaning from text
Gregory Grefenstette
5. Translators at work: a case study of electronic tools used by translators in industry
Riitta Jaaskelainen and Anna Mauranen
6. Extracting meteorological contexts from the newspaper corpus of Slovenian
Primoz Jakopin
7. The Hungarian possibility suffix - hat/ het as a dictionary entry
Frenc Kiefer
8. Dictionaries, corpora and word-formation
Simon Krek, Vojko Gorjanc and Marko Stabej
9. Hidden culture: using the British National Corpus with language learners to investigate collocational behaviour, wordplay and culture-specific references
Dominic Stewart
10. Language as an economic factor: the importance of terminology
Wolfgang Teubert
11. Lemmatisation and collocational analysis of Lithuanian nouns
Andrius Utka
12. Challenging the native speaker norm: a corpus driven analysis of scientific usage
Geoffrey Williams

Part Two: Multilingual Corpora
13. Chinese-English translation database: extracting units oflóT