Includes bibliographical references and index.

Preliminary Material / Nelleke Oostdijk and Pieter de Haan -- Preface / Nelleke Oostdijk and Pieter de Haan -- A tribute to Jan Aarts / Flor Aarts -- 1 Introduction / Nelleke Oostdijk and Pieter de Haan -- 2 Continuity and change in the encoding of computer corpora / Stig Johansson -- 3 Tagging the British ICE Corpus: English word classes / Sidney Greenbaum and Ni Yibin -- 4 The large-scale grammatical tagging of text: Experience with the British National Corpus / Geoffrey Leech , Roger Garside , and Michael Bryant -- 5 Computerized lexicons and theoretical models / Willem Meijs -- 6 Resolving lexical ambiguity / Louise Guthrie , Joe Guthrie , and Jim Cowie -- 7 Prospects for practical parsing of unrestricted text: Robust statistical parsing techniques / Ted Briscoe -- 8 Robust parsing of unconstrained text / Fred Karlsson -- 9 Using parsed corpora: A review of current practice / Clive Souter and Eric Atwell -- 10 An experiment in customizing the Lancaster Treebank / Ezra Black -- 11 Susanne: A Domesday Book of English grammar / Geoffrey Sampson -- 12 What is wrong with adding one? / William Gale and Kenneth Church -- 13 Intra-textual variation within medical research articles· / Douglas Biber and Edward Finegan -- 14 On the functions of such in spoken and written English / Bengt Altenberg -- 15 Imparsable speech: Repeats and other nonfluencies in spoken English / Anna-Brita Stenström and Jan Svartvik -- References / Nelleke Oostdijk and Pieter de Haan -- List of contributors / Nelleke Oostdijk and Pieter de Haan.

For over two decades Jan Aarts has been actively involved in corpus linguistic research. He was the instigator of a large number of projects, and he was responsible for what has become known as the Nijmegen approach to corpus linguistics. It is thanks to him that words like TOSCA and LDB have become household names in the corpus linguistic community. The present volume has been collected in his honour. The contributions in it cover a wide range of topics in the field of corpus linguistic research, especially those in which Jan Aarts takes a keen interest: corpus encoding and tagging, parsing and databases, and the linguistic exploration of corpus data. The contributions in this volume discuss work done in this field outside Nijmegen, for the obvious reason that we do not wish to present him with a report on work in which he is himself involved.

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