0 a collection of written or spoken material stored on a computer and used to find out how language is used: --
All the dictionary examples are taken from a corpus of billions of words.
1 a collection of a single writer's work, or of writing about a particular subject --
2 a body or the main part of an organ --
3 a collection of written and spoken language used in the study of language and in writing dictionaries --
What, then, are elderly people seen to be doing in the corpus?
This corpus was submitted to three groups of school children : seven-year-olds, nine-year-olds and eleven-year-olds.
Considering that our corpus is still relatively small, the performance of our tagger is very promising.
For example, with a significantly smaller corpus, the proposed rules will affect the tags of fewer instances even early in the training phase.
Total instances annotated in both training and test corpora.
In a statistical approach to the problem such weighting must be done with respect to the training corpus, with the addition of any prior knowledge.
The testing mode is used to test a module on an unseen tagged corpus, so to understand how well it performs on a specific application.
Partial parsers are now a common approach in corpus linguistics.
