[目录]

Preface
1.　TheBasics
　The Importance of Language Annotation
　　The Layers of Linguistic Description
　　What Is Natural Language Processing?
　A Brief History of Corpus Linguistics
　　What Is a Corpus?
　　Early Use of Corpora　　
　　Corpora Today　　
　　Kinds of Annotation
　Language Data and Machine Learnin9　　
　　Classification
　　Clustering
　　Structured Pattern Induction
　　The Annotation Development Cycle
　　Model the Phenomenon
　　Annotate with the Specification
　　Train and Test the Algorithms over the Corpus
　　Evaluate the Results
　　Revise the Model and Algorithms
　Summary
2.　DefiningYourGoaI and Dataset
　Defining Yoor Goal
　　The Statement of Purpose
　　Refining Your Goal：Informativity Versus Correctness
　　Background Research　　
　　Language Resources
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