Corpus Linguistics and Language Technology : With Reference to Indian Languages

Contents: Preface. 1. Language corpus: a new pasture. 2. Generation of a written corpus. 3. Text corpus processing. 4. Analysis of characters. 5. Analysis of spelling variation. 6. Statistical analysis of corpus. 7. Structure analysis of words. 8. Morphological processing. 9. Corpus in linguistics studies. 10. Corpus in machine translation. Appendices. Bibliography. Index.

"This is the first introductory book on corpus linguistics and language technology with special reference to Indian languages. It is written to provide necessary guidelines to the new field of empirical language research and application, which are initiated in the Indian languages. The book addresses some basic issues of corpus linguistics and language technology both from descriptive and applicational points of view. Also, it emphasises on research into naturally occurring language database complemented with qualitative and functional interpretations where methodological and theoretical issues related to corpus linguistics are addressed with due importance. The book is neither technical in presentation of information nor object-oriented in approach. In a lucid way, it presents necessary resource, techniques and information to address the pressing needs of Indian universities and institutes, which are dealing with Indian language databases either to research into language or to design tools and systems for language technology. Also, people from the fields of natural language processing, computational linguistics, information and communication technology, descriptive linguistics, phonology, morphology, semantics, syntax, lexicology, lexicography, sociolinguistics, psycholinguistics, historical linguistics, dialectology, discourse, pragmatics, language teaching, stylistics and others will find this book highly useful for relevant information and analysis." (jacket)