Corpus linguistics and 17th-century prostitution : computational linguistics and history
- Submitting institution
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The University of Lancaster
- Unit of assessment
- 26 - Modern Languages and Linguistics
- Output identifier
- 262945730
- Type
- A - Authored book
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- Publisher
- Bloomsbury Academic
- ISBN
- 9781472506092
- Open access status
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- Month of publication
- December
- Year of publication
- 2016
- URL
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- Supplementary information
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- Output has been delayed by COVID-19
- No
- COVID-19 affected output statement
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- Forensic science
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- Criminology
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- Interdisciplinary
- Yes
- Number of additional authors
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1
- Research group(s)
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- Proposed double-weighted
- Yes
- Double-weighted statement
- The work represents a significant body of research undertaken over a long period of time with a substantial dataset of 1 billion words. The book brings together a number of areas of study, among them historical corpus linguistics, computational linguistics, word studies, and social history in highly innovative ways. The authors have developed original research methods to enhance the study of collocates and semantic fields in historical data. The book presents a creative project which highlights the potential of corpus linguistic methodology and the benefits of investing in exploiting language corpora from the interdisciplinary perspective.
- Reserve for an output with double weighting
- No
- Additional information
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- Author contribution statement
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- Non-English
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- English abstract
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