Statistics for Corpus Linguistics

by Michael Oakes

Overview

This book in the Edinburgh Textbooks in Empirical Linguistics series is a comprehensive introduction to the statistics currently used in corpus linguistics. Statistical techniques and corpus applications - whether oriented towards linguistics or language engineering - often go hand in glove, and corpus linguists have used an increasingly wide variety of statistics, drawing on techniques developed in a great many fields. This is the first one-volume introduction to the subject.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780748608171
Publisher:	Edinburgh University Press
Publication date:	02/01/1998
Series:	Edinburgh Textbooks in Empirical Linguistics
Edition description:	New Edition
Pages:	272
Product dimensions:	6.14(w) x 9.21(h) x 1.00(d)
Age Range:	18 Years

Editorial Reviews

Gives many instructive examples of statistical techniques applied to language data, provides exercises at the end of each chapter, and has a clear glossary.

Year's Work in English Studies

Gives many instructive examples of statistical techniques applied to language data, provides exercises at the end of each chapter, and has a clear glossary.

No. 1 This Year's Work in English Studies Vol. 79

This book is essential for learning statistical analysis of texts. Most importantly, Oakes's is the only current corpus-linguistic book that devotes such a large portion of its pages to stylistics … the whole book is worthwhile for the literary scholar.

Language and Literature: Journal of the Poetic and Linguistics Association

This book is essential for learning statistical analysis of texts. Most importantly, Oakes's is the only current corpus-linguistic book that devotes such a large portion of its pages to stylistics … the whole book is worthwhile for the literary scholar.

Language and Literature