How Specialized are Specialized Corpora? Behavioral Evaluation of Corpus Representativeness for Maltese.
Year: 2010
Type: conference-paper
Abstract: In this paper we bring to light a novel intersection between corpus linguistics and behavioral data that can be employed as an evaluation metric for resources for low-density languages, drawing on well-established psycholinguistic factors.Using the low-density language Maltese as a test case, we highlight the challenges that face researchers developing resources for languages with sparsely available data and identify a key empirical link between corpus and psycholinguistic research as a tool to evaluate corpus resources.Specifically, we compare two robust variables identified in the psycholinguistic literature: word frequency (as measured in a corpus) and word familiarity (as measured in a rating task).We then use three statistical methods to evaluate these comparisons.This research provides a multidisciplinary approach to corpus development and evaluation, in particular for less-resourced languages that lack a wide access to diverse language data.
Authors: Jerid Francom, Amy LaCross, Adam Ussishkin
Institutions: University of Arizona, Wake Forest University
Language: English
Subfield: Artificial Intelligence
Field: Computer Science
Domain: Physical Sciences
Open Access status: hybrid
OpenAlex ID: W189094258