Introduction to the Special Issue on the Web as Corpus Page 1 c© 2003 Association for
Computational Linguistics Introduction to the Special Issue on the Web as Corpus Adam …

Many recent models of language comprehension have stressed the role of distributional
frequencies in determining the relative accessibility or ease of processing associated with a …

This thesis reports the development of a new kind of method and tool (Matrix) for advancing
the statistical analysis of electronic corpora of linguistic data. First, we describe the standard …

We first describe a number of inter-related issues that need to be considered by the
researcher when comparing frequencies of linguistic features in two or more corpora. We …

Frequent words tend to shorten (see eg Schuchardt 1885, Hooper 1976), as do words that
have a high probability of occurrence given a neighboring word (Jurafsky et al. 2001). This …

Most work in statistical parsing has focused on a single corpus: the Wall Street Journal
portion of the Penn Treebank. While this has allowed for quantitative comparison of parsing …

Frequency-sorted word lists have long been part of the standard methodology for exploiting
corpora. Sinclair (1991: 30) noted that" anyone studying a text is likely to need to know how …

Readers are sensitive to the fact that verbs may allow multiple subcategorization frames that
differ in their probability of occurrence. Although a verb's overall subcategorization …

The probabilistic relation between verbs and their arguments plays an important role in
psychological theories of human language processing. Unfortunately, different methods of …

The classification of verbs in Levin's (1993) English Verb Classes and Alternations: A
preliminary Investigation, on the basis of both intuitive semantic grouping and their …