Self-Test: Computer Jargon & Corpora

• a collection of English-language material available for computer processing KIWCHTTPCALLICEISPROMRAMVLEICAMEMTWWWUSBHTMLPDFCAL
• a company which gives individuals|companies|etc. access to the Internet ICEPDFHTTPCALRAMMTHTMLICAMEWWWCALLKIWCUSBVLEROMISP
• a database of different samples of spoken and written English ROMICEISPRAMCALMTHTMLHTTPWWWVLEPDFKIWCUSBCALLICAME
• a huge collection of documents that are connected by hypertext links and can be accessed through the Internet USBMTPDFHTTPICAMEKIWCCALLHTMLISPCALRAMROMWWWICEVLE
• a set of rules for transfering files on the WWW|usually included at the beginning of a website address (e.g. http://www. ) ISPROMMTHTMLCALLHTTPUSBICEKIWCPDFVLEICAMERAMCALWWW
• a standard way to connect things like printers and scanners to a computer ICAMEVLEICEPDFWWWKIWCUSBHTMLHTTPISPMTROMRAMCALCALL
• a type of permanent computer or disk memory that stores information that can be read or used but not changed HTMLHTTPCALMTICEWWWUSBISPCALLRAMKIWCVLEICAMEROMPDF
• a way to write documents so they can be displayed on a website ROMVLEPDFHTMLICEUSBKIWCHTTPCALLICAMEWWWCALISPMTRAM
• an online classroom HTTPVLEICEPDFWWWCALLISPICAMEMTUSBCALROMKIWCHTMLRAM
• documents in this format look exactly like the original documents and can be viewed and printed on most computers|without the need for each computer to have the same software|fonts|etc. CALLKIWCICAME1:MULTICHOICE:PDFICEUSBHTTPMTRAMHTMLCALVLEWWWROMISP
• the memory which the computer uses for basic processes ICAMEISPPDFWWWICECALLCALHTMLKIWCUSBVLEMTROMHTTPRAM
• the most common format of concordance lines when conducting corpus searches KIWCUSBICEHTMLROMPDFMTRAMVLEISPCALLICAMEWWWCALHTTP
• using computers to help you learn CALPDFRAMCALLKIWCROMVLEHTTPUSBICAMEMTWWWHTMLICEISP
• using computers to help you learn languages KIWCICEICAMECALHTTPRAMUSBWWWCALLROMISPHTMLVLEPDFMT
• using computers to translate language PDFWWWHTMLHTTPMTUSBCALICAMEKIWCVLECALLROMICEISPRAM

What is a corpus?

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

What is the main reason for using corpora?

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

Which of these is NOT a type of corpus?

multilingual corpusdiachronic corpusobserver corpuslearner corpus

What is a concordance?

Information about word frequencies normalised per million words.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.

What is a collocation?

The tendency of words to co-occur with one another.The tendency of words to appear in unique and different contexts.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 per million words.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 in a corpus.