PowerGREP及其在语料库语言学中的应用

PowerGREP and Its Application to Corpus Linguistics

PowerGREP软件是一个强大的文本处理软件,它的设计原来为计算机编程等服务,并非用于语料库语言学领域.但是它的功能可以在信息提取、语料库建设等方面完美地服务于语料库语言学.该文从信息提取、词汇搭配统计、语料库标注中的格式转换等角度对该软件进行介绍.

Corpus and corpus linguistics develop very fast in the past 20 years. However, the popularity of this powerful linguistic tool lags thousands of miles behind its construction. One reason is probably the developtrent of the friendly software packages. At present some popular corpus tools can only do some simple concor dance work, word frequency counting etc, with many word patterns and other linguistic information buried deeply in the corpara. Other packages developed can only serve the respective corpora, and cannot be used with other corpora of different formats. As a compensation for this, PowerGREP is such a wonderful tool for many corpus purposes, and to some extent can replace sane professional software packages.