Linguistic Databases

Linguistic Databases

by John Nerbonne
     
 

ISBN-10: 1575860937

ISBN-13: 9781575860930

Pub. Date: 06/28/1998

Publisher: Center for the Study of Language and Inf

Linguistics Databases explains the increasing use of databases in linguistics. Specifically, the works presented in this collection report on database activities in phonetics, phonology, lexicography and syntax, comparative grammar, second-language acquisition, linguistic fieldwork, and language pathology. The volume presents the specialized problems of

Overview

Linguistics Databases explains the increasing use of databases in linguistics. Specifically, the works presented in this collection report on database activities in phonetics, phonology, lexicography and syntax, comparative grammar, second-language acquisition, linguistic fieldwork, and language pathology. The volume presents the specialized problems of multi-media (especially audio) and multilingual texts, including those in exotic writing systems. Various implemented solutions are discussed, and the opportunities to use existing, minimally structured text repositories are presented.

Product Details

ISBN-13:
9781575860930
Publisher:
Center for the Study of Language and Inf
Publication date:
06/28/1998
Series:
Center for the Study of Language and Information - Lecture Notes Series
Pages:
264
Product dimensions:
6.00(w) x 9.00(h) x 0.80(d)

Table of Contents

1. Introduction John Nerbonne; 2. Test suites for natural language processing Stephen Oepen, Klaus Netter and Judith Klein; 3. From annotated corpora to databases: the SgmlQL Jacques Le Maitre, Elisabeth Murisasco, and Monique Rolbert; 4. Markup of a test suite with SGML Martin Volk; 5. An open systems approach for an acoustic-phonetic continuous speech database: the S. tools database-management systems (STDBMS) Werner A. Deutsch, Ralf Vollman, Anton Noll, and Sylvia Moosmüller; 6. The reading database of syllable structure Erik Fudge and Linda Shockey; 7. A database application for the generation of phonetic atlas maps Edgar Haimerl; 8. Swiss-French polyphone and polyvar: telephone speech databases to model inter- and intra-speaker variability Gerard Chollet, Jean-Luc Cochard, Andrei Constantinescu, Cedric Jaboulet, and Philippe Langlais; 9. Investigating argument structure: the Russian nominalization database Andrew Bredenkamp, Louisa Sadler, and Andrew Spencer; 10. The use of a psycholinguistic database in the simplification of text for aphasic readers Siobhan Devlin and John Tait; 11. The computer learner Corpus: a testbed for electronic EFL Tools Sylviane Granger; 12. Linking wordnet to a Corpus query system Oliver Christ; 13. Multilingual data processing in the Cellar environment Gary F. Simons and John V. Thomson.

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