Self-Test: Computer Jargon & Corpora

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 help us discover interesting patterns quickly and reliably.Other methods of language analysis are not reliable.With corpora we can answer all research questions about language.Computers can confirm our intuitions about language.

Which of these is NOT a type of corpus?

multilingual corpuslearner corpusdiachronic corpusobserver corpus

What is a concordance?

Listing of examples of a word searched in a corpus with some context.Information about word frequencies normalised per million words.A list of words and their frequencies.An alphabetical list of words that appear in a text.

What is a collocation?

The tendency of words to appear in unique and different contexts.The tendency of words to co-occur with one another.The tendency of speakers to talk over each other.The tendency of sentences to create meaning.

What is a frequency distribution in a corpus?

Information about how frequent a word is in a corpus.Sociolinguistic information about the gender of the speakers.Information about frequency of use of a term across texts and speakers.Information about how frequent a word is per million words.

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