Re: Things to do with text

Michael Maxwell wrote:

> Like the things corpus linguists do to build applications, or field 
> linguists do to analyze a language?  And if so, are you interested in 
> annotated text (footnoted text, interlinear text, text tagged for names 
> or numbers...), or just plain text in one or more languages?

I'm primarily interested, at the moment, in activities or operations that rely heavily on 
the fact that the text is computerised, i.e. that would be difficult or impossible to do 
with 'analogue' text. I'm particularly interested in the sort of things that can be said 
to happen invisibly, i.e. operations performed on text as encoded entities that might only 
be secondarily displayed using fonts, or perhaps not displayed at all. So yes, I think the 
sort of things corpus linguists might do would be of interest, and I'd like to gain an 
understanding of some examples.

Thanks.

John Hudson

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