ICAME Journal 22

ICAME JOURNAL

Computers in English Linguistics

No. 22 – April 1998


International Computer Archive of Modern and Medieval English
The HIT-centre – Norwegian Computing Centre for the Humanities


Contents

Articles

Roberta Facchinetti Expressions of futurity in British Caribbean Creole 7
Hong Liang Qiao and Renjie Huang Design and implementation of AGTS Probabilistic Tagger 23
Tobias Rademann Using online electronic newspapers in modern English-language press corpora: Benefits and pitfalls 49
Minna Vihla Medicor: A corpus of contemporary American medical texts 73

Reviews

Sidney Greenbaum The Oxford English Grammar. (Peter Collins) 81
Guy Aston and Lou Burnard The BNC Handbook. Exploring the British National Corpus with SARA. (Pieter de Haan) 85
Roger Garside, Geoffrey Leech and Anthony McEnery (eds) Corpus Annotation: Linguistic Information from Computer Text Corpora. (Atro Voutilainen) 93

Abstracts

Ylva Berglund Guy Aston and Lou Burnard: The BNC Handbook. Exploring the British National Corpus with SARA. 99
Ylva Berglund Geoff Barnbrook: Language and Computers: A Practical Introduction to the Computer Analysis of Language 100
Ylva Berglund Roger Garside, Geoffrey Leech and Anthony McEnery (eds): Corpus Annotation: Linguistic Information from Computer Text Corpora 101
Ylva Berglund Michael Stubbs: Text and Corpus Analysis: Computer-assisted Studies of Language and Culture 103
Ylva Berglund Anne Wichmann, Steven Fligelstone, Tony McEnery, and Gerry Knowles (eds): Teaching and Language Corpora. 104

Shorter notices

Hilde Hasselgård The 18th ICAME conference in Chester, (21-25 May 1997) 107
Merja Kytö and Matti Rissan English historical corpora: Report on developments in 1997 113
Paul Rayson and Roger Garside The CLAWS Web Tagger 121

ICAME services

Knut Hofland ICAME web-site 125
Conditions on the use of ICAME corpus material 125
Information for contributors 135