Comparing English Worldwide
The International Corpus of English
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Product details:
- Publisher Clarendon Press
- Date of Publication 1 August 1996
- ISBN 9780198235828
- Binding Hardback
- No. of pages302 pages
- Size 242x164x21 mm
- Weight 594 g
- Language English
- Illustrations line figures, tables 0
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Short description:
The International Corpus of English is unique in its assembly of parallel collections of samples of spoken and written English from over fifteen English-speaking countries. The book explains the design of the ICE collections and the software and annotation systems that have been developed for the project. The later sections focus on problems of compiling some of the corpora and the wider applied and research applications of the project.
MoreLong description:
The International Corpus of English is a unique linguistic and sociolinguistic project. When complete it will consist of fifteen or more parallel corpora of spoken English drawn from countries where English is either a majority first language or an official second language.
Part I introduces the ICE project and a sub-project that investigates writing by advanced learners of English. Part II describes in detail the design of the corpora, the markup systems for speech and writing, the ICE tagset and parsing scheme, and the software packages that have been developed for automatic tagging and parsing, and for retrieving lexical, grammatical, and sociolinguistic information. Part III discusses problems in compiling the corpora, exemplified by the experience of teams in New Zealand, East Africa, and Hong Kong. Finally, Part IV considers some of the applications envisaged for the corpora: research in linguistics, sociolinguistics and natural language processing; teaching, language planning, and the establishment of norms for teaching and examining in second-language countries.
The book is excellently edited and printed. It opens up a great number of exciting new paths for future research, and does not fail to tell the critical reader about the limitations of the great expectations raised.
