Self-Test: Computer Jargon & Corpora

What is a corpus?

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

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?

multilingual corpuslearner corpusobserver corpusdiachronic corpus

What is a concordance?

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

What is a collocation?

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.The tendency of sentences to create meaning.

What is a frequency distribution in a corpus?

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

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