Self-Test: Computer Jargon & Corpora

• a collection of English-language material available for computer processing VLECALWWWICAMEHTMLHTTPPDFMTROMRAMKIWCCALLICEUSBISP
• a company which gives individuals|companies|etc. access to the Internet ICEHTMLVLEISPMTCALLRAMWWWICAMEKIWCHTTPROMPDFUSBCAL
• a database of different samples of spoken and written English USBICEHTTPVLECALMTRAMKIWCPDFICAMEISPWWWROMHTMLCALL
• a huge collection of documents that are connected by hypertext links and can be accessed through the Internet USBHTMLMTRAMCALLISPVLEWWWICEROMHTTPKIWCCALPDFICAME
• a set of rules for transfering files on the WWW|usually included at the beginning of a website address (e.g. http://www. ) ICEVLEHTMLUSBKIWCISPCALRAMICAMECALLPDFROMWWWMTHTTP
• a standard way to connect things like printers and scanners to a computer CALLICAMEVLEISPROMHTTPICEWWWRAMUSBKIWCCALPDFMTHTML
• a type of permanent computer or disk memory that stores information that can be read or used but not changed HTTPCALICECALLICAMEKIWCVLEMTISPROMRAMUSBHTMLWWWPDF
• a way to write documents so they can be displayed on a website MTRAMICEICAMEROMHTMLHTTPVLECALUSBPDFWWWKIWCCALLISP
• an online classroom WWWMTCALHTMLICEPDFKIWCICAMEISPROMHTTPVLERAMUSBCALL
• 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. USBROMISPICAMEHTMLVLEICEMTRAM1:MULTICHOICE:PDFWWWCALLKIWCHTTPCAL
• the memory which the computer uses for basic processes ISPHTTPMTCALLCALUSBKIWCROMWWWHTMLICAMEVLERAMICEPDF
• the most common format of concordance lines when conducting corpus searches HTTPUSBHTMLISPMTICAMERAMPDFCALKIWCWWWVLEROMICECALL
• using computers to help you learn HTMLCALKIWCCALLISPROMRAMMTICAMEPDFUSBHTTPVLEICEWWW
• using computers to help you learn languages ROMICEISPVLEPDFKIWCWWWMTRAMHTMLCALUSBICAMECALLHTTP
• using computers to translate language ICERAMMTPDFCALKIWCROMVLEISPCALLUSBWWWHTTPICAMEHTML

What is a corpus?

an electronic database similar to a dictionaryany large collection of words; e.g. a collection of books or  newspapersa theory of languagea 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.Computers can confirm our intuitions about language.Other methods of language analysis are not reliable.

Which of these is NOT a type of corpus?

observer corpusmultilingual corpuslearner corpusdiachronic 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.Information about word frequencies normalised per million words.An alphabetical list of words that appear in a text.

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?

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.