CORPUS AND COMPUTATIONAL LINGUISTICS ON THE EXAMPLE OF THE EC QUESTIONNAIRE
Keywords:
corpus, linguistic analysis, computers, the EC QuestionnaireAbstract
This paper deals with the analysis of one part of the European Commission Questionnaire. From the complete analysis in our doctoral thesis, two aspects have been chosen for the purposes of this paper. The first one is the analysis of impersonalised register, while the second aims to find the connexion between hapax legomena and the mistakes we have spotted in the abovementioned corpus. We will show how the use of corpora and computers can shed new light onto traditional linguistic research. Furthermore, this paper should also be understood as a way of promoting the Corpus and Computational linguistics which are yet to find their full application within linguistic research.
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