WebCorp Linguist's Search Engine

语言学家、语言工程师、教师和学生越来越多地试图利用万维网作为语言信息的来源，以补充现有词典和语料库中关于语言使用的信息。特别是，他们感兴趣的是调查最新的硬币和用法，以及稀有或理论上过时的用法是否继续存在。然而，语言学家目前不得不使用谷歌和其他商业搜索引擎来实现这一点，这些系统并不适合专门类型的搜索和分析。这项提议旨在设计和实施一个大型专家搜索引擎，该引擎将与一系列语文分析和产出格式化工具相结合，以创造一个在性能和可用性方面大大改进目前研究情况的资源。也就是说，这将是一个常规的搜索引擎，但它将以以下方式进行语言定制：第一，将下载Web的目标子集；第二，数据将以一系列文本和上下文行的形式提供，但也将被处理到包含新词和典型单词模式等信息的二级语言数据库中；第三，搜索结果将以语言学家指定的一系列熟悉的格式提供，这将使学习和出版更加方便

Linguists, language engineers, teachers and students are increasingly trying to use the World Wide Web as a source of linguistic information to supplement the information on language use in existing dictionaries and text collections. In particular, they are interested in investigating the latest coinages and usages, as well as the continued existence of rare or theoretically obsolete usage. However, linguists currently have to use Google and other commercial search engines to achieve this, systems which are not geared to the specialised type of search and analysis. This proposal seeks to work on the design and implementation of a large-scale specialist search engine which will be integrated with a range of language-analysis and output-formatting tools to create a resource that improves significantly on the current research situation both in terms of performance and usability. That is to say, this will be a regular search engine, but it will be linguistically-tailored in the following ways: firstly, targeted subsets of the web will be downloaded; secondly, the data will be available as a series of texts and lines of context, but will also be processed into secondary linguistic databases containing information such as new words and typical word patterns; and thirdly, the search results will be offered in a range of familiar formats specifiable by the linguist, which make both study and publication more convenient.1,435 characters