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，以补充现有词典和文本集中的语言使用信息。特别是，他们有兴趣研究最新的造词和用法，以及继续存在的罕见或理论上过时的用法。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目标，这些系统不适合专门的搜索和分析类型。这项建议旨在设计和实施一个大型专业搜索引擎，该引擎将与一系列语言分析和输出格式工具相结合，以创建一个在性能和可用性方面大大改善目前研究状况的资源。也就是说，这将是一个常规的搜索引擎，但将以下列方式按语言加以调整：首先，将下载有针对性的网页子集;其次，数据将以一系列文本和上下文的形式提供，但也将被处理成二级语言数据库，其中载有诸如新词和典型词型等信息;第三，检索结果将以一系列语言学家可指定的熟悉格式提供，这使研究和出版更加方便。

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