Lydia-Mai Ho-Dac
List of John Benjamins publications for which Lydia-Mai Ho-Dac plays a role.
2024 Chapter 9. To each their own truth: Epistemic regimes on Wikipedia talk pages Investigating Wikipedia: Linguistic corpus building, exploration and analysis, Poudat, Céline, Harald Lüngen and Laura Herzberg (eds.), pp. 235–262 | Chapter
This chapter presents five epistemic regimes we defined for characterizing the conception of “truth” that underpin debates amongst Wikipedian editors on talk pages. The chapter starts by defining each epistemic regime and how it could be understood according to the Wikipedia rules. Then, we… read more
2024 Chapter 1. Building a comparable corpus of online discussions on Wikipedia: The EFG WikiCorpus Investigating Wikipedia: Linguistic corpus building, exploration and analysis, Poudat, Céline, Harald Lüngen and Laura Herzberg (eds.), pp. 12–44 | Chapter
This chapter presents the EFG WikiCorpus, a corpus composed of all the talk pages dedicated to (co)writing an article in the English, French and German Wikipedias. This chapter explains the place of talk pages in Wikipedia and describes what is the basic structure of a talk page before detailing… read more
2024 Introduction Investigating Wikipedia: Linguistic corpus building, exploration and analysis, Poudat, Céline, Harald Lüngen and Laura Herzberg (eds.), pp. 1–10 | Chapter
2024 Chapter 3. Exploring interactions in Wikipedia talk pages Investigating Wikipedia: Linguistic corpus building, exploration and analysis, Poudat, Céline, Harald Lüngen and Laura Herzberg (eds.), pp. 76–106 | Chapter
In this chapter we analyze how users interact on Wikipedia talk pages, focusing on the patterns that emerge from a large corpus of 5 million threads across three languages. These patterns take three simple features into account: who posts, when they post, and after whom they post. We begin with… read more
2023 A linear approach of chain composition Reference: From conventions to pragmatics, Gardelle, Laure, Laurence Vincent-Durroux and Hélène Vinckel-Roisin (eds.), pp. 107–126 | Chapter
This corpus-based approach to coreference chains analyzes recurrences in the patterns of chains, providing new insights into conventions or preferences in the forms of referential expressions. By taking into account the linearity of discourse and the succession of mentions, it goes beyond the… read more
2022 Evaluating morphosemantic demotivation through experimental and distributional methods Lingvisticæ Investigationes 45:1, pp. 83–115 | Article
The lexicalization of morphologically complex words, i.e. their inclusion in the lexicon, can involve a loss of semantic compositionality. Such a phenomenon, called demotivation, has been overlooked in both morphological and lexical studies, notably regarding its gradual nature. This paper… read more