Corpus linguistics is the study of a language as that language is expressed in its text corpus (plural corpora), its body of "real world" text.Corpus linguistics proposes that a reliable analysis of a language is more feasible with corpora collected in the field—the natural context ("realia") of that language—with minimal experimental interference.

Computational linguistics is an interdisciplinary field concerned with the computational modelling of natural language, as well as the study of appropriate computational approaches to linguistic questions.In general, computational linguistics draws upon linguistics, computer science, artificial intelligence, mathematics, logic, philosophy, cognitive science, cognitive …

In corpus linguistics, a collocation is a series of words or terms that co-occur more often than would be expected by chance. In phraseology, a collocation is a type of compositional phraseme, meaning that it can be understood from the words that make it up.This contrasts with an idiom, where the meaning of the whole cannot be inferred from its parts, and may be …

Chapter 6 Keyword Analysis. In this chapter, I would like to talk about the idea of keywords.Keywords in corpus linguistics are defined statistically using different measures of keyness.. Keyness can be computed for words occurring in a target corpus by comparing their frequencies (in the target corpus) to the frequencies in a reference corpus.. In other words, the …