Alistair Baron
List of John Benjamins publications for which Alistair Baron plays a role.
2014 “i didn’t spel that wrong did i. Oops”: Analysis and normalisation of SMS spelling variation SMS Communication: A linguistic approach, Cougnon, Louise-Amélie and Cédrick Fairon (eds.), pp. 217–237 | Article
Spelling variation, although present in all varieties of English, is particularly prevalent in SMS text messaging. Researchers argue that spelling variants in SMSes are principled and meaningful, reflecting patterns of variation across historical and contemporary texts, and contributing to the… read more
2012 Children Online: A survey of child language and CMC corpora International Journal of Corpus Linguistics 17:4, pp. 443–481 | Article
The collection of representative corpus samples of both child language and online (CMC) language varieties is crucial for linguistic research that is motivated by applications to the protection of children online. In this paper, we present an extensive survey of corpora available for these two… read more
2012 “i didn’t spel that wrong did i. Oops”: Analysis and normalisation of SMS spelling variation SMS Communication: A linguistic approach, Cougnon, Louise-Amélie and Cédrick Fairon (eds.), pp. 367–388 | Article
Spelling variation, although present in all varieties of English, is particularly prevalent in SMS text messaging. Researchers argue that spelling variants in SMSes are principled and meaningful, reflecting patterns of variation across historical and contemporary texts, and contributing to the… read more
2011 Automatic error tagging of spelling mistakes in learner corpora A Taste for Corpora: In honour of Sylviane Granger, Meunier, Fanny, Sylvie De Cock, Gaëtanelle Gilquin and Magali Paquot (eds.), pp. 109–126 | Article
Manual error tagging of learner corpus data is time consuming and creates a bottleneck in the analysis of learner corpora. This had led researchers to apply techniques from the area of natural language processing to assist in the automatic analysis of such data. This chapter presents the novel… read more
2010 Improving the precision of corpus methods: The standardized version of Early Modern English Medical Texts Early Modern English Medical Texts: Corpus description and studies, Taavitsainen, Irma and Päivi Pahta (eds.), pp. 279–290 | Article