New Directions in English Language Corpora: Methodology, Results, Software Developments

New Directions in English Language Corpora: Methodology, Results, Software Developments

Author(s): Gerhard Leitner (ed.)

Series: Topics in English Linguistics 9

The corpus-based study of English, as of other languages, has a long tradition, powerfully continued by the researchers and research teams from all over the world who group around the International Computer Archive of Modern English (ICAME). ICAME, with its annual meetings (cf. S. Johansson and A.-B. Stenström 1990) and ICAME Journal, celebrated its tenth anniversary in Bergen, Norway, where it provided, as usual, "the forum for a wide range of computational corpus linguistic work on English conducted right across the world" (Souter 1990:14). The new decade began in 1990 in Berlin at a moment that could not have been more appropriate.
The wall had come down, eastern European countries began to open up — and it was thus possible for researchers and interested scholars from these parts of the world to attend the conference and to learn from the experiences and results of corpus linguistic work.