Corpus Linguistics: Developments and Applications - CORPLING

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GIUV2018-425

Description of Research Activity:

Corpus linguistics (CL), with its distinctly empirical approach to language research, has significantly enriched previous paradigms, becoming a fundamental methodological reference in contemporary linguistic studies. We are particularly interested in two aspects: one focusing on developments in corpus linguistics and the other on its applications. Like other empirical research within linguistics, CL sits at the intersection of the humanities and social sciences, based on computational linguistics.

From the humanities, it draws its primary interest in studying language in its many facets; from the social sciences, it has adopted much of its methodology related to quantification (mathematics, statistics, etc.); and from computer science, the development of increasingly sophisticated analytical tools. In this regard, CL methodologies are far from static and continue to evolve, incorporating significant advancements, whether through the creation of increasingly sophisticated software packages for ad hoc corpus research or in...
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Scientific and Technical Objectives:

• Design and compilation of linguistic corpora representative of fiction and non-fiction genres.

• Computational developments in corpus linguistics.

• Automated statistical quantification developments based on corpus analysis.

• Development and analysis of monomodal or multimodal texts from digital and non-digital genres using corpus techniques.

• Lexicographic, phraseological, translation, and language learning applications.

Research Lines:

• Developments in monomodal and multimodal corpus design, with and without annotation. Analysis of the fundamental principles in corpus compilation, whether synchronic (current) or diachronic, monolingual or multilingual, for the study of language as a whole or in part. Examination of different types of annotation: grammatical, semantic, discursive, multimodal.

• Analysis of discourse and written, oral, and digital genres. Research prioritizing corpus tools to analyze a diversity of genres and discourses, assessing the effectiveness of corpus tools.

• Lexicographic, phraseological, grammatical, and translation analysis. Evaluation of corpus linguistics in compiling and developing monolingual and multilingual lexicography, including phraseology aspects, the drafting of grammars based on real language use, and translation.

• Corpus-assisted language teaching and learning. Investigation of learner interlanguage, contrastive studies through corpus analysis, and the use of corpus techniques in language teaching and linguistics in the classroom (data-driven learning).

• Developments in opinion mining (sentiment analysis). Assessment of the effectiveness of tools designed by computational linguists and computer engineers for analyzing digital genres, such as computer-mediated communication. Includes evaluating or subjectivity expressed by users in commercial and non-commercial uses.

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