Investigating Wikipedia: Linguistic corpus building, exploration and analysis
Edited by Céline Poudat, Harald Lüngen and Laura Herzberg
[Studies in Corpus Linguistics, 121] 2024. vi, 264 pp.
Céline Poudat
List of John Benjamins publications for which Céline Poudat plays a role.
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Subjects Applied linguistics | Computational & corpus linguistics | Corpus linguistics
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 8. Disagreements and conflicts in Wikipedia talk pages Investigating Wikipedia: Linguistic corpus building, exploration and analysis, Poudat, Céline, Harald Lüngen and Laura Herzberg (eds.), pp. 205–234 | Chapter
Collaborative situations inevitably generate disagreements and even conflicts. Over the last decade, Wikipedia has been extensively studied, but mostly from the perspective of social sciences. Conflicts have been described in great detail, along with phenomena such as quality, coordination, or… 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
2015 Professional writing as institutional norm and personal style: Inspection reports in French elementary schools Writing(s) at the Crossroads: The process–product interface, Cislaru, Georgeta (ed.), pp. 229–252 | Article
The present study is based on 85 inspection reports in primary schools, composed during the 2010–2011 academic year by six National Education Inspectors in an academy in Brittany, France. Our main objective is to describe the genre of the report in a text statistics framework, using both… read more
2013 Quantitative approaches to political discourse: Corpus linguistics and text statistics Speaking of Europe: Approaches to complexity in European political discourse, Fløttum, Kjersti (ed.), pp. 65–84 | Article
The present chapter proposes to build bridges between political discourse analysis and corpus linguistics. We intend to bring to light methodological benefits arising from the synergy of (political) discourse analysis and corpus linguistics, pointing to fruitful contribution from French text… read more
2012 Corpora and academic writing: A contrastive analysis of research articles in biology and linguistics Corpus-Informed Research and Learning in ESP: Issues and applications, Boulton, Alex, Shirley Carter-Thomas and Elizabeth Rowley-Jolivet (eds.), pp. 167–192 | Article
Research articles represent a major form of academic discourse and are known to vary based on genre and discipline. Although numerous studies have been conducted to describe and explain these variations, few of them have used quantitative methods. However, text statistics is particularly well… read more
2005 Authorial presence in academic genres Strategies in Academic Discourse, Tognini-Bonelli, Elena and Gabriella Del Lungo Camiciotti (eds.), pp. 51–68 | Article