Working with Specialized Language

'An intelligent and accessible book which meets a real need. Anyone who wants to know what a corpus is and what you can do with one should reach for this book first.' - Raphael Salkie, University of Brighton, UK

• List of figures, Acknowledgements, Introduction, PART I. Setting the scene, 1. Introducing corpora and corpus analysis tools, 2. Introducing LSP, PART II. Corpus design, compilation and processing, 3. Designing a special purpose corpus, 4. Compiling a special purpose corpus, 5. Markup and annotation, 6. Bilingual and multilingual corpora: pre-processing, alignment and exploitation, 7. Introduction to basic corpus processing tools, PART III. Corpus-based applications in LSP, 8. Building useful glossaries, 9. Term extraction, 10. Using LSP corpora as a writing guide, 11. Using LSP corpora as a translation resource, 12. Other applications and future directions, Appendix, Glossary, Bibliography, Index