Which English dominates the world wide web, British or American?
Atwell, ES, Arshad, J, Lai, CM et al. (4 more authors)
(2007)
Which English dominates the world wide web, British or American?
In:
Proceedings of CL'2007 Corpus Linguistics Conference.
CL'2007 Corpus Linguistics Conference, 27-30 Jul 2007, University of Lancaster.
UCREL, Lancaster University
Abstract
This paper reports the results of an experiment to combine research and teaching in Corpus Linguistics, using an AI-inspired intelligent agent architecture, but casting students as the intelligent agents (Atwell 2007). Computing students studying Computational Modelling and Technologies for Knowledge Management were given the data-mining coursework task of harvesting and analysing a Data Warehouse from WWW, using WWW-BootCat web-as-corpus technology (Baroni et al 2006). Each student/agent collected English-language web-pages from a specific national top-level domain, and the analysis task involved comparing their national web-as-corpus with given “gold standard” samples from UK and US domains, to assess whether national WWW English terminology/ontology was closer to UK or US English. Results from 93 countries worldwide were collated to give an overview answer to the question: Which English dominates the World Wide Web, British or American?
Metadata
Item Type:
Proceedings Paper
Authors/Creators:
Atwell, ES
Arshad, J
Lai, CM
Nim, L
Rezapour Ashregi, N
Wang, J
Washtell, J
Copyright, Publisher and Additional Information:
Atwell, ES, Arshad, J, Lai, CM, Nim, L, Rezapour Ashregi, N, Wang, J and Washtell, J (c) 2007, University of Leeds. Reproduced with permission from the copyright holders.
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