Book contents
- Designing and Evaluating Language Corpora
- Designing and Evaluating Language Corpora
- Copyright page
- Contents
- Figures
- Tables
- Acknowledgments
- 1 Introduction
- 2 Approaches to Representativeness in Previous Corpus Linguistic Research
- 3 Corpus Representativeness
- 4 Domain Considerations
- 5 Distribution Considerations
- 6 The Influence of Domain and Distribution Considerations on Corpus Representativeness
- 7 Corpus Design and Representativeness in Practice – With Daniel Keller
- Glossary
- Book part
- References
- Index
- References
Appendices
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 07 April 2022
Book contents
- Designing and Evaluating Language Corpora
- Designing and Evaluating Language Corpora
- Copyright page
- Contents
- Figures
- Tables
- Acknowledgments
- 1 Introduction
- 2 Approaches to Representativeness in Previous Corpus Linguistic Research
- 3 Corpus Representativeness
- 4 Domain Considerations
- 5 Distribution Considerations
- 6 The Influence of Domain and Distribution Considerations on Corpus Representativeness
- 7 Corpus Design and Representativeness in Practice – With Daniel Keller
- Glossary
- Book part
- References
- Index
- References
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- Designing and Evaluating Language CorporaA Practical Framework for Corpus Representativeness, pp. 224 - 270Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2022
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