Bridging the gap within text-data analytics: a computer environment for data analysis in linguistic research

Authors

  • Carlos Periñán-Pascual Universitat Politècnica de València

Keywords:

text-data analytics, corpus linguistics, text mining, software, DAMIEN

Abstract

Since computer technology became widespread available at universities during the last quarter of the twentieth century, language researchers have been successfully employing software to analyse usage patterns in corpora. However, although there has been a proliferation of software for different disciplines within text-data analytics, e.g. corpus linguistics, statistics, natural language processing and text mining, this article demonstrates that any computer environment intended to support advanced linguistic research more effectively should be grounded on a user-centred approach to holistically integrate cross-disciplinary methods and techniques in a linguist-friendly manner. To this end, I examine not only the tasks that are derived from linguists' needs and goals but also the technologies that appropriately deal with the properties of linguistic data. This research results in the implementation of DAMIEN, an online workbench designed to conduct linguistic experiments on corpora.

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Author Biography

Carlos Periñán-Pascual, Universitat Politècnica de València

Carlos Periñán-Pascual studied English Language and Literature at Universitat de València and received his Ph.D. degree in English Philology at UNED in Madrid (Spain). Since his doctoral dissertation on the resolution of word-sense disambiguation in machine translation, his main research interests have included knowledge engineering, natural language understanding and computational linguistics. More particularly, his research has been focused on the cognitive and computational treatment of lexical information, constructional meaning, conceptual representation, and reasoning, among many other tasks. Since 2004, he has been the director of FunGramKB, a lexico-conceptual knowledge base, together with a suite of tools, for the automatic processing of language. His scientific production includes over 50 peer-reviewed publications in the fields of linguistics, natural language processing and artificial intelligence. He has been the principal investigator in four funded research projects as well as the chair of the organizing committee in many scientific events, including international workshops and conferences. He is currently an associate professor in the Applied Linguistics Department at Universitat Politècnica de València, Spain.

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Periñán-Pascual, C. (2017). Bridging the gap within text-data analytics: a computer environment for data analysis in linguistic research. Revista De Lenguas Para Fines Específicos, 23(2), 111–132. Retrieved from https://ojsspdc.ulpgc.es/ojs/index.php/LFE/article/view/921

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