Self-Test: Computer Jargon & Corpora

What is a corpus?

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

What is the main reason for using corpora?

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

Which of these is NOT a type of corpus?

diachronic corpuslearner corpusobserver corpusmultilingual corpus

What is a concordance?

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

What is a collocation?

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

What is a frequency distribution in a corpus?

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

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