CL mini quiz

Question 1

Wordlist (3)

Answer 1

1. The top words (per million) are dominated by high-frequency grammatical words e.g. X
2. Top content words are …
3. Anything in common?

Question 2

Concordance (3)

Answer 2

1. Any high frequency content words have different nuances of meaning?
2. Semantic prosody: positive or negative
3. any recurrent phraseological patterns or collocates?

Question 3

N-grams (2)

Answer 3

1. Higher order n-grams are more useful e.g. 3-gram, 4-gram, 5-gram (frequency cut-off?)
2. The N-grams ordered by frequency … contain information about

Question 4

Keywords (4)

Answer 4

1. Using the X corpus as a reference corpus, and a minimum frequency cut-off point of X, the keywords were as follows…
2. Keywords accounted for by various word classes e.g.
3. Following generation of a keyword dispersion plot, we can see that keywords are general features of the text / concentrated at particular points e.g. global vs local
4. Do any keywords “share collocational space”?

Question 5

POS tagging (3)

Answer 5

1. Ideally should check manually, but time did not allow.
2. The POS tags in order of keyness are as follows:
3. Are the grammatical categories dominated by a single item?

Question 6

Semantic tagging (4)

Answer 6

1. The most key semantic categories are as follows.
2. Are the top categories semantically linked?
3. Are the categories what we might expect? Any unpredictable? Metaphor not distinguished by tagger
4. Semantic bin

Question 7

Overall linguistic/genre-specific nature of style and rhetoric (4)

Answer 7

Mode - spoken/written

Domain or genre - academic, political, promotional, legal

Style - non-content keywords

Producer’s intentions and intended audience