Unanswered Questions
63 questions with no upvoted or accepted answers
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Is there a threshold of usage of a word, below which it will become an archaism?
University student, beginning to learn about corpora, developing a research question for an assignment. There may well be linguistic concepts and terminology that already cover this idea and that I am ...
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Is there an english news corpus available to download for between 1900 and 201X (free or low cost)
I'm attempting a word embedding analysis (think underlying meaning and implications, but computational) of certain keywords through time in the English language, but I am having some difficulty ...
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PoS tagger - technical corpus
I try to find corpus with technical language to train my model, but I cannot find it.
Do you know if there are any tagged PoS corpus in English related with technical language?
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Is there any corpus for idioms?
I'm looking for a corpus for English (American, GB, Australian) idioms. Preferably created manually, because I already have two, but they are rather small and were built semi-automatically.
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Where can I find Japanese-English (manually) word-aligned corpora?
I'm looking for as many very reliable Japanese-English corpora as possible so I'd like to ask:
Are there any other manually aligned corpora besides KFFT's and
Utiyama's?
What are the most accurate ...
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Tool for manually POS tagging texts
I'm interested if there is a text or set of texts where each word is correctly POS tagged.
I know there are algorithms that can associate POS tags to the words, but there are always many of ...
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How to decrease CRF++ feature function set?
I have a problem with the CRF++ Package. CRF++ cannot handle large training parts-of-speech corpora (large tagset and large number of words).
In fact, the number of feature functions automatically ...
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Slot filling corpora
I was wondering if anyone knows of slot filling corpora such as ATIS. I tried finding ATIS but since I am not a member of LDC I couldnt get access to it. Do you know of any place where I can find a ...
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Corpus studies on the frequency of subject questions in English
Are there any corpus studies which show the relative frequency of different types of interrogative main clauses in English, in particular the relative frequency of subject questions (which do not ...
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Quantitative methodology for contrastive pragmatics in corpus-based settings
I am interested in literature regarding methodology that could be relevant for quantitative research into differences in pragmatic meaning between two 'equivalent' concepts in two languages (in other ...
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Is there a frequency-ranked corpus of Punjabi NAV lemmata?
I am looking for a list of lexical roots for Punjabi, with frequency information whereby one can get an idea what the 1000 most-frequent words of the language are. I need to exclude case forms etc. ...
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Distribution of the set of meanings of a given word, in a corpus
I am looking to know about the distribution of word senses, of a particular word in a corpus. How often a word sense will occur out of all the occurrences of that word with any meaning.
For example: ...
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Are there any publicly available spell checking corpora?
I need some corpora that contain sentences with misspelled word(s) in order to evaluate the performance of my own spell checking approach. So, the corpora should define the right word alongside the ...
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How to get data for ACADEMIC + SPOKEN (Academic speech) simultaneously using BNC?
I'm looking for filler words used in academia. Since fillers are mainly used in spoken discourse, I need to look for academic spoken 'texts'. Anyone knows how to do this using BNC?
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Differences in collective nouns and agreement between Ame and BrE
I am trying to use two corpora,the BNC and COCA to ascertain the difference in instances of single and plural verb agreement between American and British English. I have some interesting ideas for ...
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