OUT NOW: Liina Repo, Brett Hashimoto & Veronika Laippala look at extending register annotations from a corpus of historical documents using BERT-based deep learning models.
Considering text-internal variation, they find that beginnings tend to support better predictions.
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OUT NOW: Jia Li and Xianyao Hu compare human- and machine-translated texts from Chinese to English to evaluate features of conservatism across registers
Their investigation sheds light on the potetnial of human-machine collaborative translation models
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OUT NOW: Yiğit Savuran & Stefanie Wulff introduce the Turkish Learner Corpus (TURLEC), comprising written and spoken texts of learners of Turkish L2 across CEFR proficiency levels.
The corpus and metadata are available at: osf.io/bnv3p/files/...
#OpenScience #LearnerCorpus
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Two new book reviews!:
@mariannagracheva.bsky.social reviews Le Foll's (2024)
Textbook English: A multi-dimensional approach
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and Holly Baker reviews Kaunisto & Schilk (2024)
Challenges in corpus linguistics: Rethinking corpus compilation and analysis
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@timfeld.bsky.social, Fabian Barteld & Alexander Ziem present and evaluate an approach for predicting typical fillers for the slots of grammatical constructions using BERT.
They ask: How can language models be used to support the development of linguistic resources?
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The present study investigates whether conservatism exists in human- and machine-translated texts from Chinese
into English, and whether this tendency is consistently observable across differ...
Abstract This paper provides a detailed account of the Turkish Learner Corpus (TURLEC). Building on the first author’s doctoral dissertation project, which aimed to identify proficiency descriptors fo...
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Abstract The starting point of this paper is a central problem in constructicography: on the one hand, constructicon projects aim at describing a broad spectrum of constructions based on usage data; o...
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Looi, Riget, Boulton & Hassan discuss synonym alternation between French prochain and suivant, using corpus evidence and statistical methods to re-examine variables derived through introspection
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This paper presents a corpus-based study that evaluates variables identified introspectively by Berthonneau (2002) in relation to the alternation between two French synonymous:
prochain (‘nex...
