Statistics for Corpus Linguistics

Author/Contributor(s):	Oakes, Michael
Publisher:	Edinburgh University Press
Date:	02/01/1998
Binding:	Paperback
Condition:	NEW

This book in the Edinburgh Textbooks in Empirical Linguistics series is a comprehensive introduction to the statistics currently used in corpus linguistics. Statistical techniques and corpus applications - whether oriented towards linguistics or language engineering - often go hand in glove, and corpus linguists have used an increasingly wide variety of statistics, drawing on techniques developed in a great many fields. This is the first one-volume introduction to the subject.