PPT-Extracting an Inventory of English Verb Constructions from Language Corpora

Matthew Brook ODonnell Nick C Ellis mbodumichedu ncellis umichedu Presentation University of Michigan Computer Science and Engineering and School of Information Workshop on Data Text Web and Social Network Mining. an Inventory of English Verb Constructions from Language Corpora. Matthew Brook O’Donnell Nick C. Ellis . mbod@umich.edu. . . ncellis. @umich.edu. . Presentation. University of Michigan Computer Science and Engineering and School of . Recent Developments in Technological Tools for the Purpose of Facilitating SLA. What’s a Digital Corpus?. Def.: a collection or body of text/s. …so a digital corpus is a body of text/s which is accessible and searchable using computer software.. Ken Lau. Going from Prescriptive to Descriptive. Prescriptive grammar has their origins in 18. th. and 19. th. century Europe where grammar was connected to the idea that there was a relationship between ‘. Matthew Brook O’Donnell,. Nick C. Ellis, Ute . R. ömer. & Gin . Corden. English Language Institute. mbod@umich.edu. The 2nd University of . Michigan Workshop . on Data, Text, Web, and Social Network . and the quest for . Translation Universals. . UCCTS. . 29.07. 2010. Anna Mauranen. Search for Translation Universals. Characteristics that translations generally have. began in the early / mid -1990s. Author: N. A. . Polovnikova. , teacher of English of Gymnasium #1 . Standard word order. Standard word order. in English . affirmative . sentences is . first the subject. , . then the verb. . . . begin. and . start. : evidence from translation corpora. Thomas . Egan & Susan Nacey. Hedmark College . Norway. Thomas.Egan@hihm.no. , . Susan.Nacey@hihm.no. Rethinking Synonymy. 28 – 30 October, Helsinki . Matthew Brook O’Donnell,. Nick C. Ellis, Ute . R. ömer. & Gin . Corden. English Language Institute. mbod@umich.edu. The 2nd University of . Michigan Workshop . on Data, Text, Web, and Social Network . Verb-Nominalization Constructions?. . Anthony Davis Leslie Barrett. CodeRyte. , Inc. . TheLadders.com. English SVN constructions. s. upport verb + nominalization (direct object) ≈ main verb (root of nominalization). Paula MacDonald, NIC, M.S.. MRID Fall Conference 2014. Paula MacDonald. Degrees. A.A.S. Interpreting/Translation. B.A. “Multicultural Interpreting”. M.S. . . Interpreting with and emphasis in . Pedagogy. Dr. Adam Kilgarriff. Lexical Computing Ltd. Leeds University. UK. The argument. English. Biggest language-teaching market. For thirty years. Corpora. We have learnt how to use them. Chinese. Learn from English. Rania Al-Sabbagh. Department of English . Faculty of Al-Alsun (Languages). rsabbagh@alsun.asu.edu.eg. . Week 2. 1. Recap. Last time, we talked about: . Corpus is a collection of real-world texts. . Corpus linguistics cannot answer questions the why questions.. Dr. Adam Kilgarriff. Lexical Computing Ltd. Leeds University. UK. The argument. English. Biggest language-teaching market. For thirty years. Corpora. We have learnt how to use them. Chinese. Learn from English. Rania Al-Sabbagh. Department of English . Faculty of Al-Alsun (Languages). rsabbagh@alsun.asu.edu.eg. . Week 2. 1. Recap. Last time, we talked about: . Corpus is a collection of real-world texts. . Corpus linguistics cannot answer questions the why questions..