Ling 485 final exam Name ______
· 4-5 one sentence bulleted items; most important/relevant items first. Please keep the answers to one sentence; and long, drawn-out sentences are neither requested nor desired. Thanks.
1. What does it mean for a corpus to be "representative", and what are some problems in creating a representative corpus?
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2. How can annotation increase the usability of corpora?
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3. What are some of the most important principles governing the use of concordances?
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4. What are some nice tools for the analysis of individual texts / small corpora (presentation by Tory Anderson)
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5. What are some challenges in creating / using historical corpora?
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6. How can corpora most effectively be used in the classroom?
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7. What are some general principles governing the use of data from the Web?
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8. How are corpora being used for legal studies, and what are some challenges in using them for this purpose?
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9. What are five specific insights into English that you’ve gained by using corpora this semester, which you probably wouldn’t have had otherwise?
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10. How does the approach to data taken in most corpus-based studies compare to that of many more formalist-based studies? (i.e. theory-oriented linguistics, like what you might get in Ling 230)
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