Computational Phraseology
(2020) ISBN: [9789027205353], 327 pages, published
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- This volume is about computational phraseology, a fairly recent notion (Colson, 2003; Granger & Meunier, 2008; Heid, 2008). While computational linguistics as a whole has become one of the main research fields of linguistics, it is also worthy of note that recent years have seen many computational subdisciplines gaining some ground. At the time of writing, computational sociolinguistics yields 3,400 hits on Google, computational psycholinguistics 32,400, computational discourse analysis 1,660 and computational construction grammar 3,690. Computational phraseology is also progressing, with almost 1,000 hits. There must be some logic to this more frequent use of the adjective computational in various fields. Our point of view is that part of the explanation may be related to the people who carry out computational research in the various subdisciplines of linguistics. Their background can be very different: linguists, but also engineers, mathematicians, statisticians, computer scientists, programmers, etc. Bringing very diverse people together for research activities is a daunting challenge. Engineers, for instance, rely a lot on statistics and may not be aware of the terminology and cognitive aspects of linguistics; linguists, on the other hand, do not always realise that improving automated linguistic techniques also requires some mastery of computer science or statistics. The success of the computational subdisciplines of linguistics may precisely be due to the fact that they foster collaboration between linguists on the one hand, and engineers / statisticians / computer scientists on the other. These approaches work bottom-up: the research questions and the terminology come from raw linguistic data, and are then investigated within a collaborative project.
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Gloria Corpas Pastor, & Colson, J.-P. (2020). Computational Phraseology. John Benjamins. https://doi.org/10.1075/ivitra.24