2.5 Glossary of main terms

Following the main goals of the companion website, this glossary contains only terms and abbreviations related to corpus linguistics. The grammar terms and concepts are omitted.

• ambiguity tag
• annotation (corpus annotation)
• BNC – the British National Corpus: see Catalogue of corpora and software
• BNCweb – see Catalogue of corpora and software
• collocate
• collocation
• concordance
• concordancer
• corpus (pl. corpora)
• co-text
• CQP, CQP syntax – see CQP in Catalogue of corpora and software
• FLOB - see Catalogue of corpora and software
• gold standard corpus
• ICE, ICE-GB - see Catalogue of corpora and software
• metadata or meta-textual information
• NLP – Natural Language Processing
• parser (automatic)
• parsing
• part-of-speech (POS) tagging
• POS-tag
• precision rate
• query syntax
• recall rate
• sub-corpus
• tagger
• tagset
• token
• type

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