Methodological advances in lexical pattern extraction : examples from Spanish adventure tourism
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- Patrick Goethals (UGent) and Jasper Degraeuwe (UGent)
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- Abstract
- This chapter aims to contribute to the methodological innovation in the description of language use for specific purposes and the language of adventure tourism in particular. We describe techniques such as dependency parsing and semantic similarity calculation based on non-contextual word embeddings and transformer-based language models in order to show how these recent innovations or developments can lead to a more fruitful use of small and mid-size corpora, which are the typical use cases when studying languages for specific purposes. In these corpora, purely quantitative filters set too strict limitations on less frequently recurrent constructions. At the same time, we discuss the challenges posed by the new techniques, since they require adequate fine-tuning. Semantic similarity calculation in particular seems to offer important opportunities to explore the full richness of small and mid-size corpora such as the ADVENCOR corpus, since it takes recurrent constructions as a starting point and enriches these data by identifying semantically similar constructions which by themselves do not pass the frequency thresholds. We will apply these methodological insights to verb constructions that are typical in the adventure tourism discourse.
- Keywords
- collocations, dependency parsing, pattern extraction, semantic similarity, transformers
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Please use this url to cite or link to this publication: http://hdl.handle.net/1854/LU-01J2XXE9Q17MEPSEDBKYTZQ0AW
- MLA
- Goethals, Patrick, and Jasper Degraeuwe. “Methodological Advances in Lexical Pattern Extraction : Examples from Spanish Adventure Tourism.” Exploring the Language of Adventure Tourism : A Corpus-Assisted Approach, edited by Isabel Durán-Muñoz and Eva Lucía Jiménez-Navarro, vol. 24, Peter Lang, 2024, pp. 85–110.
- APA
- Goethals, P., & Degraeuwe, J. (2024). Methodological advances in lexical pattern extraction : examples from Spanish adventure tourism. In I. Durán-Muñoz & E. L. Jiménez-Navarro (Eds.), Exploring the language of adventure tourism : a corpus-assisted approach (Vol. 24, pp. 85–110). Berlin: Peter Lang.
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- Goethals, Patrick, and Jasper Degraeuwe. 2024. “Methodological Advances in Lexical Pattern Extraction : Examples from Spanish Adventure Tourism.” In Exploring the Language of Adventure Tourism : A Corpus-Assisted Approach, edited by Isabel Durán-Muñoz and Eva Lucía Jiménez-Navarro, 24:85–110. Berlin: Peter Lang.
- Chicago author-date (all authors)
- Goethals, Patrick, and Jasper Degraeuwe. 2024. “Methodological Advances in Lexical Pattern Extraction : Examples from Spanish Adventure Tourism.” In Exploring the Language of Adventure Tourism : A Corpus-Assisted Approach, ed by. Isabel Durán-Muñoz and Eva Lucía Jiménez-Navarro, 24:85–110. Berlin: Peter Lang.
- Vancouver
- 1.Goethals P, Degraeuwe J. Methodological advances in lexical pattern extraction : examples from Spanish adventure tourism. In: Durán-Muñoz I, Jiménez-Navarro EL, editors. Exploring the language of adventure tourism : a corpus-assisted approach. Berlin: Peter Lang; 2024. p. 85–110.
- IEEE
- [1]P. Goethals and J. Degraeuwe, “Methodological advances in lexical pattern extraction : examples from Spanish adventure tourism,” in Exploring the language of adventure tourism : a corpus-assisted approach, vol. 24, I. Durán-Muñoz and E. L. Jiménez-Navarro, Eds. Berlin: Peter Lang, 2024, pp. 85–110.
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abstract = {{This chapter aims to contribute to the methodological innovation in the description of language use for specific purposes and the language of adventure tourism in particular. We describe techniques such as dependency parsing and semantic similarity calculation based on non-contextual word embeddings and transformer-based language models in order to show how these recent innovations or developments can lead to a more fruitful use of small and mid-size corpora, which are the typical use cases when studying languages for specific purposes. In these corpora, purely quantitative filters set too strict limitations on less frequently recurrent constructions. At the same time, we discuss the challenges posed by the new techniques, since they require adequate fine-tuning. Semantic similarity calculation in particular seems to offer important opportunities to explore the full richness of small and mid-size corpora such as the ADVENCOR corpus, since it takes recurrent constructions as a starting point and enriches these data by identifying semantically similar constructions which by themselves do not pass the frequency thresholds. We will apply these methodological insights to verb constructions that are typical in the adventure tourism discourse.}},
author = {{Goethals, Patrick and Degraeuwe, Jasper}},
booktitle = {{Exploring the language of adventure tourism : a corpus-assisted approach}},
editor = {{Durán-Muñoz, Isabel and Jiménez-Navarro, Eva Lucía}},
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series = {{Hallesche Sprach- und Textforschung / Language and Text Studies / Recherches linguistiques et textuelles}},
title = {{Methodological advances in lexical pattern extraction : examples from Spanish adventure tourism}},
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