ENGLISH FOR THE COMPUTER by Geoffrey Sampson ( 9780198240235 )

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ENGLISH FOR THE COMPUTER
THE SUSANNE CORPUS AND ANALYTIC SCHEME

By:

Geoffrey Sampson

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OXFORD UNIVERSITY PRESS

Pub. date:

23 February, 1995

Pages:

508

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In computer processing of natural language there is an urgent need for a standardized classification of the structural elements of language. This book provides the first public definition of such a scheme for English, based on large samples of real-life use of British and American written and spoken English. For any example of English the SUSANNE analytic scheme specifies a unique annotation describing all its structural properties.

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Computer processing of natural language is a burgeoning field, but until now there has been no agreement on a standardized classification of the diverse structural elements that occur in real-life language material. This book attempts to define a "Linnaean taxonomy" for the English language: an annotation scheme, the SUSANNE scheme, which yields a labelled constituency structure for any string of English, comprehensively identifying all of its surface and logical structural properties. The structure is specified with sufficient rigour that analysts working independently must produce identical annotations for a given example. The scheme is based on large sample of real-life use of British and American written and spoken English. The book also describes the SUSANNE electronic corpus of English which is annotated in accordance with the scheme. It is freely available as a research resource to anyone working at a computer conected to Internet, and since 1992 has come into widespread use in academic and commerical research environments on four continents.

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