Corpus Presenter: Software for language analysis with a manual and A Corpus of Irish English as sample data
Raymond Hickey, Essen University
John Benjamins
2003. x, 292 pp. (incl. CD-Rom)
Hb 90 272 2607 5 EUR 95.00 / 158811 4341 USD 114.00
Th e current book together with the accompanying CD-ROM forms
the Corpus Presenter suite which can be used to compile text corpora
and to carry out retrieval tasks on any corpus or selection of text fi les,
no matter what their source or how they are organised. Th e suite is de-
signed to have a maximally open architecture and can be used straight
away to examine any texts users may have access to. A whole range
of utilities with a user-friendly interface allow users to start working
without any prior acquaintance of corpus processing soft ware. A test
corpus is supplied with which users can see what the many options
of the suite are like. In addition, a comprehensive corpus of historical
texts has also been included. Th is is A Corpus of Irish English which
covers the entire history of Irish English and illustrates the diff erent genres which are attested for this variety. Provision has been made for the retrieval of syntactic information with frame searches. Th e process-
ing of lexical information is facilitated by a number of database modules. In all there are over 20 programmes which cover all aspects of corpus processing. Th e book contains many sample analyses and discussions so that users can acquaint themselves with the suite quickly and easily.
There is a website with information on the Corpus Presenter suite along with update information: http://www.uni-essen.de/~lan300/HICKEY.htm.
Raymond Hickey, Essen University
John Benjamins
2003. x, 292 pp. (incl. CD-Rom)
Hb 90 272 2607 5 EUR 95.00 / 158811 4341 USD 114.00
Th e current book together with the accompanying CD-ROM forms
the Corpus Presenter suite which can be used to compile text corpora
and to carry out retrieval tasks on any corpus or selection of text fi les,
no matter what their source or how they are organised. Th e suite is de-
signed to have a maximally open architecture and can be used straight
away to examine any texts users may have access to. A whole range
of utilities with a user-friendly interface allow users to start working
without any prior acquaintance of corpus processing soft ware. A test
corpus is supplied with which users can see what the many options
of the suite are like. In addition, a comprehensive corpus of historical
texts has also been included. Th is is A Corpus of Irish English which
covers the entire history of Irish English and illustrates the diff erent genres which are attested for this variety. Provision has been made for the retrieval of syntactic information with frame searches. Th e process-
ing of lexical information is facilitated by a number of database modules. In all there are over 20 programmes which cover all aspects of corpus processing. Th e book contains many sample analyses and discussions so that users can acquaint themselves with the suite quickly and easily.
There is a website with information on the Corpus Presenter suite along with update information: http://www.uni-essen.de/~lan300/HICKEY.htm.