Choose for each explanation the correct abbreviation and acronym used in computing.
What is a corpus?
a collection of texts stored on a computeran electronic database similar to a dictionaryany large collection of words; e.g. a collection of books or newspapersa theory of language
What is the main reason for using corpora?
Computers can confirm our intuitions about language.Computers help us discover interesting patterns quickly and reliably.With corpora we can answer all research questions about language.Other methods of language analysis are not reliable.
Which of these is NOT a type of corpus?
observer corpusdiachronic corpuslearner corpusmultilingual corpus
What is a concordance?
Listing of examples of a word searched in a corpus with some context.A list of words and their frequencies.An alphabetical list of words that appear in a text.Information about word frequencies normalised per million words.
What is a collocation?
The tendency of speakers to talk over each other.The tendency of words to co-occur with one another.The tendency of sentences to create meaning.The tendency of words to appear in unique and different contexts.
What is a frequency distribution in a corpus?
Sociolinguistic information about the gender of the speakers.Information about how frequent a word is in a corpus.Information about frequency of use of a term across texts and speakers.Information about how frequent a word is per million words.