Self-Test: Computer Jargon & Corpora

What is a corpus?

any large collection of words; e.g. a collection of books or  newspapersa collection of texts stored on a computera theory of languagean electronic database similar to a dictionary

What is the main reason for using corpora?

Computers can confirm our intuitions about language.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.

Which of these is NOT a type of corpus?

multilingual corpuslearner corpusdiachronic corpusobserver corpus

What is a concordance?

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

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 sentences to create meaning.The tendency of speakers to talk over each other.

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 how frequent a word is per million words.Information about frequency of use of a term across texts and speakers.

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