Subscribers to Corpora may be interested to know that Edinburgh
University Press has just published the fifth volume in its Edinburgh
Textbooks in Empirical Linguistics series: Statistics for Corpus
Linguistics by Michael Oakes of Lancaster University.
Statistical techniques and corpus applications - whether oriented
towards linguistics or language engineering - often go hand in glove.
Corpus linguists have used an increasingly wide variety of statistics,
drawing on techniques developed in a great many fields. This book is
the first to present, in one volume, a comprehensive introduction to the
statistics currently used in corpus linguistics.
* Designed for the use of non-mathematicians, with all technical terms
explained
* A wide variety of examples showing the use of various statistical
techniques in corpus linguistics
* Supporting study questions for each chapter
* The most relevant mathematical tables included
If you are teaching a corpus linguistics course which focuses on how and
when to use statistics, and which has at least 12 students, you can
request an inspection copy of this book. Email you course details,
including name, level and start date of course, and the number of
students, to Katy.Lockwood@eup.ed.ac.uk.
To buy a copy of this book, email direct.order@marston.co.uk, or
telephone +44 (0)1235 465500, or fax +44 (0)1235 465555, or send your
order to Marston Book Services, PO Box 269, Abingdon, Oxon. OX14 4YN,
UK.