Anaphora Resolution and Text Retrieval

Empirical approaches based on qualitative or quantitative methods of corpus linguistics have become a central paradigm within linguistics. The series takes account of this fact and provides a platform for approaches within synchronous linguistics as well as interdisciplinary works with a linguistic focus which devise new ways of working empirically and develop new data-based methods and theoretical models for empirical linguistic analyses

Anaphora Resolution and Text Retrieval

Empirical approaches based on qualitative or quantitative methods of corpus linguistics have become a central paradigm within linguistics. The series takes account of this fact and provides a platform for approaches within synchronous linguistics as well as interdisciplinary works with a linguistic focus which devise new ways of working empirically and develop new data-based methods and theoretical models for empirical linguistic analyses

Die Suche nach Informationen unter sprachwissenschaftlichen Gesichtspunkten: das Potenzial von Anaphern

Searching for information from a linguistic point of view: the potential of anaphors (translation of the title). Information science tends to use predominantly quantitative analyses and also qualitative methods that are easy to implement, in order to solve natural language tasks. However, the integration of linguistics on an equal footing could improve such tasks decisively. One promising approach are anaphors, which connect the texts in a semantic-syntactic way and thereby reflect the content of texts on the surface. Based on a comprehensive definition and categorisation, it is shown by means of a corpus that the type of anaphor which has so far never been regarded is in fact the most frequent. This knowledge offers high potential if it is applied to search engines, where anaphors have generally attracted little attention to date

The Discourse of Migration in English-language Online Newspapers: An Analysis of Images

This paper examines English-language online newspapers from the UK, the USA and Australia and analyses the images of news articles about migration. To do so, the newspapers The Guardian, USA Today and The Sydney Morning Herald have been chosen and news articles collected in August 2016. The corpus consists of 650 news articles comprising about half a million of words. From these, 1,300 images have been extracted, sorted into migration- and not migration-related images and then grouped thematically. Selected and high-frequency categories are examined in more detail, example images analysed more closely, and patterns found and common characteristics are discussed. Investigating a larger image corpus is rare in discourse analysis and is still missing for migration-related issues