History
What is the first widely used electronic corpus of American English?
Brown Corpus
What type of corpus focuses on a specific topic or field?
Specialized corpus
What is one way to find how often a word appears in a corpus?
Word frequency list
Give a more common synonym for assist.
Help
What is annotation in corpus linguistics?
Adding labels to texts
In which year was the Brown Corpus created?
1960-1961
What is a parallel corpus?
Texts in two languages aligned
What is the purpose of frequency lists in corpus linguistics?
Identify common and rare words
Give a more common synonym for commence.
Start
What is one reason to track how often words appear over time?
Study language change
What was the main purpose of creating early corpora?
To study language patterns
What is a spoken corpus?
A collection of recorded speech
What is the main advantage of a tagged corpus?
Easier grammatical and syntactic analysis
Give a more common synonym for examine.
Check / Look at
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LUCKY
Name one major corpus developed after the Brown Corpus for modern English.
British National Corpus
What type of corpus shows language change over time?
Diachronic corpus
What is the main advantage of using n-grams in corpus analysis?
Identify frequent word sequences or phrases
Give a more common synonym for eradicate.
Remove / Get rid of
What is the base form of a word called?
lemma
When was the Russian National Corpus (RNC) created?
2002-2004
What type of corpus represents language at one point in time?
Synchronic corpus
What tool can help find multiple forms of a word quickly?
Lemma search
Give a more common synonym for contemplate.
Think about
Which corpus tool allows you to search words in context ?
Concordancer