Self-Test: Computer Jargon & Corpora

• a collection of English-language material available for computer processing RAMUSBCALLMTPDFICEHTTPROMISPHTMLVLEKIWCICAMEWWWCAL
• a company which gives individuals|companies|etc. access to the Internet CALMTKIWCRAMISPCALLICEVLEPDFHTMLWWWHTTPROMUSBICAME
• a database of different samples of spoken and written English ICAMERAMISPPDFVLEHTTPKIWCCALLWWWHTMLCALMTICEUSBROM
• a huge collection of documents that are connected by hypertext links and can be accessed through the Internet ROMVLEUSBPDFRAMHTMLISPHTTPCALWWWICAMECALLMTICEKIWC
• a set of rules for transfering files on the WWW|usually included at the beginning of a website address (e.g. http://www. ) CALLRAMROMMTCALWWWHTTPPDFICEVLEHTMLUSBKIWCISPICAME
• a standard way to connect things like printers and scanners to a computer ICEVLECALLHTMLPDFMTHTTPRAMWWWICAMECALISPROMUSBKIWC
• a type of permanent computer or disk memory that stores information that can be read or used but not changed HTTPWWWROMPDFRAMKIWCISPICAMEHTMLICEVLECALLMTCALUSB
• a way to write documents so they can be displayed on a website ISPHTMLCALHTTPRAMKIWCVLEROMICEUSBICAMEMTPDFCALLWWW
• an online classroom PDFHTTPWWWKIWCCALICAMERAMHTMLROMISPICEUSBMTVLECALL
• 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. ICEHTTPRAMWWWISP1:MULTICHOICE:PDFUSBICAMEVLEROMCALKIWCMTHTMLCALL
• the memory which the computer uses for basic processes PDFMTICEHTTPCALLRAMVLEUSBROMKIWCISPICAMEHTMLCALWWW
• the most common format of concordance lines when conducting corpus searches ROMPDFKIWCCALICAMEWWWRAMMTCALLICEHTTPHTMLUSBVLEISP
• using computers to help you learn ICEUSBPDFRAMHTMLWWWHTTPICAMEISPKIWCCALROMVLEMTCALL
• using computers to help you learn languages ROMUSBRAMVLEISPWWWICEMTPDFCALCALLHTTPHTMLKIWCICAME
• using computers to translate language KIWCRAMCALMTHTMLROMICEVLEPDFICAMEUSBCALLHTTPISPWWW

What is a corpus?

an electronic database similar to a dictionarya collection of texts stored on a computerany large collection of words; e.g. a collection of books or  newspapersa theory of language

What is the main reason for using corpora?

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

Which of these is NOT a type of corpus?

learner corpusdiachronic corpusmultilingual corpusobserver corpus

What is a concordance?

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

What is a collocation?

The tendency of speakers to talk over each other.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.

What is a frequency distribution in a corpus?

Information about how frequent a word is 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.