| Preface | | vi |
| Bas Aarts, Evelien Keizer, Mariangela Spinillo & Sean Wallis: Which or what? A study of interrogative determiners in present-day English | | 1 |
| Anne Abeillé, Lionel Clément, Alexandra Kinyon & François Toussenel: The TALANA annotated corpus for French : some experimental results | | 2 |
| Annelie Ädel: On the search for metadiscourse units | | 3 |
| Karin Aijmer: Discourse particles in contrast | | 13 |
| Takanobu Akiyama: John is a man of (good) vision: enrichment with evaluative meanings | | 14 |
| Jean-Yves Antoine & Jérôme Goulian: Word order variations and spoken man-machine dialogue in French : a corpus analysis on the ATIS domain | | 22 |
| Dawn Archer and Jonathan Culpeper: Sociopragmatic annotation: New directions and possibilities in Historical Corpus Linguistics | | 30 |
| Eric Atwell & John Elliott: A Corpus for Interstellar Communication | | 31 |
| Manuel Barbera: From EAGLES to CT tagging: a case for re-usability of resources | | 40 |
| Margareta Westergren Axelsson & Angela Hahn: The use of the progressive in Swedish and German advanced learner English: a corpus-based study | | 45 |
| Anja Belz: Optimisation of corpus-derived probabilistic grammars | | 46 |
| Ylva Berglund & Oliver Mason: "But this formula doesn't mean anything!" | | 58 |
| Roumiana Blagoeva: Comparing cohesive devices: a corpus based analysis of conjunctions in writen and spoken learner discourse | | 59 |
| Hans Boas: Frame Semantics as a framework for describing polysemy and syntactic structures of English and German motion verbs in contrastive computational lexicography | | 64 |
| Rhonwen Bowen: Nouns and Their Prepositional Phrase Complements in English | | 74 |
| Ted Briscoe: From dictionary to corpus to self organising dictionary: Learning valency associations in the face of variation and change | | 79 |
| Estelle Campione & Jean Véronis: Semi-automatic tagging of intonation in French spoken corpora | | 90 |
| Pascual Cantos-Gomez: An attempt to improve current collocation analysis | | 100 |
| Roldano Cattoni, Morena Danieli, Andrea Panizza, Vanessa Sandrini & Claudia Soria: Building a corpus of annotated dialogues: the ADAM experience | | 109 |
| Frantisek Cermák, Jana Klimová, Karel Pala, Vladimir Petkevic: The Design of Czech Lexical Database | | 119 |
| Ngoni Chipere, David Malvern, Brian Richards & Pilar Duran: Using a corpus of school children's writing to investigate the development of vocabulary diversity | | 126 |
| Claudia Claridge: Approaching Irony in Corpora | | 134 |
| Niladri Sekhar Dash and Bidyut Baran Chaudhuri: Corpus based Empirical Analysis of Form, Function and Frequency of Characters used in Bangla | | 144 |
| Liesbeth Degand & Henk Pander Maat: Contrasting causal connectives on the Speaker Involvement Scale | | 158 |
| Anne Le Draoulec & Marie-Paule Péry-Woodley: Corpus based identification of temporal organisation in discourse | | 159 |
| Stefan Evert & Anke Lüdeling: Measuring morphological productivity: Is automatic preprocessing sufficient? | | 167 |
| Cécile Fabre & Didier Bourigault: Linguistic clues for corpus-based acquisition of lexical dependencies | | 176 |
| Richard Foley: Going out in style? Shall in EU legal English | | 185 |
| Anna-Lena Fredriksson: Translating passives in English and Swedish: a text-linguistic perspective | | 196 |
| Cécile Frérot, Géraldine Rigou & Annik Lacombe: Phraseological approach to automatic terminology extraction from a bilingual aligned scientific corpus | | 204 |
| Robert Gaizauskas, Jonathan Foster, Yorick Wilks, John Arundel, Paul Clough, Scott Piao: The METER Corpus: A corpus for analysing journalistic text reuse | | 214 |
| Hatem Ghorbel, Afzal Ballim, & Giovanni Coray: ROSETTA: Rhetorical and semantic environment for text alignment | | 224 |
| Solveig Granath: Is that a fact? A corpus study of the syntax and semantics of the fact that | | 234 |
| Benoît Habert, Natalia Grabar, Pierre Jacquemart, Pierre Zweigenbaum: Building a text corpus for representing the variety of medical language | | 245 |
| Eva Hajicova & Petr Sgall: A reusable corpus needs syntactic annotations: Prague Dependency Treebank | | 255 |
| David Hardcastle: Using the BNC to produce dialectic cryptic crossword clues | | 256 |
| Daniel Hardt: Comma Checking in Danish | | 266 |
| Raymond Hickey: Tracking lexical change in present-day English | | 272 |
| Diana Hudson-Ettle, Tore Nilsson & Sabine Reich: Orality and noun phrase complexity: a corpus-based study of British and Kenyan writing in English | | 273 |
| Nancy Ide & Catherine Macleod: The American National Corpus: A Standardized Resource for American English | | 274 |
| Reiko Ikeo: The Positions of the Reporting Clauses of Speech Presentation with Special Reference to the Lancaster Speech, Thought and Writing Presentation Corpus | | 281 |
| Wang JianDe, Chen ZhaoXiong & Huang HeYan: Multiple-Level Knowledge Discovery from Corpus | | 289 |
| Yu Jiangsheng & Duan Huiming: POS Estimation of Undefined Chinese Words | | 290 |
| Steven Jones: Corpus Approaches to Antonymy | | 297 |
| Beom-mo Kang & Hung-gyu Kim: Variation across Korean Text Registers | | 311 |
| Przemyslaw Kaszubski: Tracing idiomaticity in learner language - the case of BE. | | 312 |
| Yuliya Katsnelson & Charles Nicholas: Identifying Parallel Corpora Using Latent Semantic Indexing | | 323 |
| Hannah Kermes & Stefan Evert: Exploiting large corpora: A circular process of partial syntactic analysis, corpus query and extraction of lexicographic information | | 332 |
| Shereen Khoja, Roger Garside & Gerry Knowles: A Tagset for the Morphosyntactic Tagging of Arabic | | 341 |
| Adam Kilgarriff: Web as corpus | | 342 |
| Dimitrios Kokkinakis: A Long-Standing Problem in Corpus-Based Lexicography and a Proposal for a Viable Solution | | 345 |
| Julia Lavid: Using bilingual corpora for the construction of contrastive generation grammars: issues and problems | | 356 |
| Maarten Lemmens: Tracing referent location in oral picture descriptions | | 367 |
| Barbara Lewandowska-Tomaszczyk, Michael Oakes & Paul Rayson: Annotated Corpora for Assistance with English-Polish Translation | | 368 |
| Juana Marín-Arrese, Elena Martinez-Caro & Soledad Pérez de Ayala Becerril: A corpus study of impersonalization strategies in newspaper discourse in English & Spanish | | 369 |
| Mikhail Mikhailov & Miia Villikka: Is there such a thing as a translator's style? | | 378 |
| Hermann Moisl & Joan Beal: Corpus analysis and results visualisation using self-organizing maps | | 386 |
| Martina Möllering: Pragmatic and discursive aspects of German modal particles: a corpus-based approach | | 392 |
| Rachel Muntz: Evidence of Australian cultural identity through the analysis of Australian and British corpora | | 393 |
| P-O Nilsson: Investigating characteristic lexical distributions and grammatical patterning in Swedish texts translated from English | | 400 |
| Julien Nioche & Benoît Habert: Using feature structures as a unifying representation format for corpora exploration | | 401 |
| Matthew Brook O'Donnell, Stanley E. Porter & Jeffrey T. Reed: OpenText.org: the problems and prospects of working with ancient discourse | | 413 |
| Maeve Olohan: Spelling out the Optionals in Translation: A Corpus Study | | 423 |
| Constantin Orasan: Patterns in scientific abstracts | | 433 |
| Gabriella Kiss and Júlia Pajzs: An attempt to develop a lemmatiser for the Historical Corpus of Hungarian | | 443 |
| Byungsun Park & Beom-mo Kang: Korean grammatical collocation of predicates and arguments | | 452 |
| Anselmo Peñas, Felisa Verdejo & Julio Gonzalo: Corpus-Based Terminology Extraction Applied to Information Access | | 458 |
| Scott Songlin Piao & Tony McEnery: Multi-word unit alignment in English-Chinese parallel corpora | | 466 |
| Katja Ploog: Syntactic change in abidjanee French | | 476 |
| Sylvie Porhiel: Linguistic expressions as a tool to extract information | | 477 |
| Stanley E. Porter & Matthew Brook O'Donnell: Theoretical Issues for Corpus Linguistics Raised by the Study of Ancient Languages | | 483 |
| Helena Raumolin-Brunberg: Temporal aspects of language change: what can we learn from the CEEC? | | 484 |
| Andrea Reményi: Use logbooks and find the original meaning of representativeness | | 485 |
| Antoinette Renouf: The Web as a Source of Linguistic Information | | 492 |
| Jérôme Richalot: The influence of the passive on text cohesion and technical terminology | | 493 |
| Rema Rossini Favretti, Fabio Tamburini & Cristiana De Santis : CORIS/CODIS: A corpus of written Italian based on a defined and a dynamic model | | 512 |
| Hans-Jörg Schmid: Do women and men really live in different cultures? Evidence from the BNC | | 513 |
| Josef Schmied: Exploring the Chemnitz Internet Grammar: Examples of student use | | 514 |
| Mark Sebba & Susan Dray: Is it Creole, is it English, is it valid? Developing and using a corpus of unstandardised written language | | 522 |
| Mirjam Sepesy Maucec & Zdravko Kacic: Language Model Adaptation For Highly-Inflected Slovenian Language In Comparison To English Language | | 523 |
| Noëlle Serpollet: The mandative subjunctive in British English seems to be alive and kicking… Is this due to the influence of American English? | | 531 |
| Serge Sharoff: Through the looking glass of parallel texts | | 543 |
| Kiril Simov, Zdravko Peev, Milen Kouylekov, Alexander Simov, Marin Dimitrov, Atanas Kiryakov: CLaRK - an XML based system for corpora development | | 553 |
| Kiril Simov, Gergana Popova & Petya Osenova: HPSG-based syntactic TreeBank of Bulgarian (BulTreeBank) | | 561 |
| Simon Smith & Martin Russell: Determining query types for information access | | 562 |
| Josef Szakos & Amy Wang: Not last, even if least: Endangered Formosan aboriginal languages and the corpus revolution | | 571 |
| Elke Teich & Silvia Hansen: Methods and techniques for a multi-level analysis of multilingual corpora | | 572 |
| Dan Tufis & Ana-Maria Barbu: Accurate automatic extraction of translation equivalents from parallel corpora | | 581 |
| Tamás Váradi: The Linguistic Relevance of Corpus Linguistics | | 587 |
| Serge Verlinde & Thierry Selva: Corpus-based vs intuition-based lexicography. Defining a word list for a French learner's dictionary | | 594 |
| Jean Véronis: Sense tagging: does it make sense ? | | 599 |
| Adriana Vlad, Adrian Mitrea, & Mihai Mitrea: A Corpus-Based Analysis of How Accurately Printed Romanian Obeys to Some Universal Laws | | 600 |
| Martin Volk: Exploiting the WWW as a corpus to resolve PP attachment ambiguities | | 601 |
| Martin Weisser: A corpus-based methodology for comparing and evaluating different accents | | 607 |
| Anne Wichmann & Richard Cauldwell: Wh-Questions and attitude: the effect of context | | 614 |
| Kay Wikberg: His breath a thin winter-whistle in his throat: English metaphors and their translation into Scandinavian languages | | 615 |
| Karen Wu Rongquan: Public Discourse as the mirror of ideological change: A keyword study of editorials in People's Daily | | 616 |
| Richard Xiao Zhonghua: A Corpus-Based Study of Interaction Between Chinese Perfective -le and Situation Types | | 625 |