Text Genres and Registers: The Computation of Linguistic Features

• Main Authors: Fang, Alex Chengyu (Author), Cao, Jing (Author)
• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Berlin, Heidelberg : Springer Berlin Heidelberg : Imprint: Springer, 2015.
• Subjects: Linguistics.; Computational linguistics.; Computational Linguistics.

This book is a description of some of the most recent advances in text classification as part of a concerted effort to achieve computer understanding of human language. In particular, it addresses state-of-the-art developments in the computation of higher-level linguistic features, ranging from etym...

Table of Contents:

• Introduction
• Language Resources
• Corpus Annotation and Usable Linguistic Features
• Etymological Features across Genres and Registers
• Part-of-Speech Tags and ICE Text Classification
• Verbs and Text Classification
• Adjectives and Text Categories
• Adverbial Clauses across Text Categories and Registers
• Coordination across Modes, Genres and Registers
• Semantic Features and Authorship Attribution
• Pragmatics and Dialogue Acts
• The Future
• Bibliography
• Appendix
• Index.