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- Cavallin, Karin, 1977
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Exploring semantic change with lexical sets
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Ingår i: Proceedings of the 15th EURALEX International Congress 7-11 August, 2012, Oslo. - 9788230322284 ; , s. 1018-1022
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Konferensbidrag (refereegranskat)abstract
- Many areas of linguistics which use corpora as their main data have benefited from research in natural language processing, NLP. Apart from a few recent studies such as Sagi et al. (2009), Rohrdantz et al. (2011) and the GoogleNgram-viewer (Michel et al. 2011), the field of semantic change seems to have received little attention in NLP. This paper describes some first steps in viewing semantic change in terms of distributional semantics with a computational and linguistically motivated approach. By parsing, adding lemmatization and part of speech information, a method is developed to describe semantic behavior and to track semantic change over time. In distributional semantics, meaning is characterized with respect to the context. This idea is developed from Firth (1957) and is formulated according to ‘the distributional hypothesis’ of Harris (1968). Whereas most approaches to statistical semantics uses some kind of vector analysis based on ngrams. Distribution here is presented as the statistically ranked lists of verb-object constructions, that is ‘lexical sets’. A lexical set is more focused than ngrams and can be seen as essential minimal co-occurrence information for a given word, which facilitates manual analysis.
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- Friberg Heppin, Karin, 1963, et al.
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Using FrameNet in Communicative Language Teaching
- 2012
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Ingår i: Proceedings of the XV EURALEX International Congress in Oslo, Norway. - 9788230322284
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Konferensbidrag (refereegranskat)abstract
- This article describes how a lexical database such as FrameNet in its different language versions can be used for communicative language teaching, an approach which focuses on communicative rather than grammatical competence. Using the semantic frames of FrameNet to illustrate situations on which to base teaching can bring about a natural flow in the organisation of teaching materials, in syllabus construction, and in the planning of individual lessons. FrameNet can also support language students in learning to communicate in different situations. The frames can guide them in choosing lexical units and sentence patterns.
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- Jansson, Håkan, et al.
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A Swedish Academic Word List : Methods and Data
- 2012
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Ingår i: Proceedings of the 15th EURALEX International Congress. - Oslo : University of Oslo. - 9788230322284 ; , s. 555-560
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Konferensbidrag (refereegranskat)abstract
- Academic language often presents a challenge to students, both language learners and native speakers. Therefore there is a need for educational language tools such as academic vocabulary resources. To date, resources developed have mainly focussed on learners of English; similar support is not yet available for Swedish. This paper reports on three different approaches to compiling a corpus of authentic academic text material used in academic settings. The purpose is to compose an empirical basis for the construction of a Swedish academic word list which can be used in language teaching. Because we have chosen to follow the method used for the creation of The Academic Word List (Coxhead 2000), the corpus content is crucial to the final content of our word list.
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- Jansson, Håkan, 1957, et al.
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A Swedish Academic Word List: Methods and Data
- 2012
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Ingår i: Proceedings of the 15th EURALEX International Congress 7-11 August, 2012, Oslo. - 9788230322284 ; , s. 955-960
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- Johansson Kokkinakis, Sofie, 1969, et al.
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Developing Academic Word Lists for Swedish, Norwegian and Danish – a joint research project
- 2012
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Ingår i: Fjeld, R. V. & J. M. Torjusen (red.) (2012): Proceedings of the 15th EURALEX International Congress 7‒11 August, 2012, Oslo, Oslo: Department of Linguistics and Scandinavian Studies, University of Oslo.. - 9788230322284 ; , s. 563-569
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Konferensbidrag (refereegranskat)abstract
- This paper reports on a joint multi-disciplinary Nordic project aimed at developing three new academic lexical resources based on corpora consisting of texts from Swedish, Norwegian and Danish academic settings. An academic word list exists for English, but no such lists exist for the Nordic languages. Such a list would be an important resource for both L1 and L2 students in their first years of study, a period when many students struggle to cope with the demands of academia. Moreover, the word lists would be of use to students and teachers at the higher levels of secondary education. An inventory of academic words and phrases would also be a useful tool for researchers of academic language use and for test developers. The paper outlines the initial stages of work on an academic word list for Swedish. Three potential research approaches have been explored: the translation of the English list, extracting academic words from existing corpora, and the compilation of parallel academic corpora where an academic word list is extracted from these. The paper will discuss the advantages and drawbacks of the different approaches and the benefits of carrying out a joint project involving several languages. The question of entry selection and the information categories of the dictionary entries and the interplay between the entries in the dictionaries and the corpora will also be briefly addressed.
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