New resources, or just better old ones? The Holy Grail of representativeness
New resources, or just better old ones? The Holy Grail of representativeness
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新资源，还是更好的旧资源？
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2007
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G. Leech
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这篇论文与本卷中的大多数论文相反，它集中在这样一个论点上，即在欢迎使用新资源和新方法的机会的同时，我们不应该忽视改进和完善我们已经拥有的资源和方法。语料库语言学的发展道路上布满了未完成的工作。由于没有其他现实的路线，语料库语言学家一直遵循实用主义，实用主义和机会主义的道路。总的来说，我们已经通过利用现有的和相对容易获得的资源和技术建立了当代的资源和技术。因此，我们的研究工作受到了资源的限制和倾斜，我们已经能够奠定我们的hands.In本文中，我说明的倾斜效应参考语料库的设计和组成，重点是所需的代表性，“平衡性”和可比性。在认为我们需要更多地考虑这些基本要求之后，我简要地讨论了与使用万维网作为语料库数据源有关的代表性（一个术语，用于表示“语料库具有代表性的程度”）问题，无论是关于“网络作为语料库”还是关于“从www材料构建语料库”。
This paper runs counter to the majority of papers in this volume in focusing on the argument that, while welcoming opportunities to use new resources and methods, we should not neglect to improve and refine the resources and methods we already have. The path of progress in corpus linguistics is strewn with unfinished business. Because no other realistic course is available, corpus linguists have understandably been following the path of practicality, pragmatism and opportunism. By and large, we have built up the resources and techniques of the present generation by taking advantage of what is already available and what can be relatively easily obtained. Our research efforts have consequently been limited and skewed by what resources we have been able to lay our hands on. In this paper, I illustrate the skewing effect with reference to corpus design and composition, focusing on the desiderata of representativeness, ‘balancedness’ and comparability. After arguing that we need to give more consideration to these basic requirements, I briefly address the issue of representativity (a term used to mean ‘the degree to which a corpus is representative’) in relation to the use of the world-wide web as a source of corpus data, both with respect to ‘the web as corpus’ and with respect to ‘corpus building from www-material’.