文档介绍：Corpus Linguistics and Language Learning:
Bootstrapping linguistic knowledge and resources from text
Eric Steven Atwell
Published work submitted for the degree of Doctor of Philosophy
The University of Leeds
School puting
April 1 st 2008
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Acknowledgements
I must thank my wife Gillian and my mother-in-law Rose for coaxing me into
completing my PhD despite years of procrastination… and I thank my Advisor,
David Hogg, for sound advice and managing the examination arrangements. I could
not have achieved the publications listed in Appendix A without the help and
support of a long list of co-researchers as co-authors. These include research
students I have supervised: Noorhan Abbas, Bayan Abu Shawar, Saleh Al-Osaimi,
Latifa Al-Sulaiti, Simon Arnfield, Bogdan Babych, Claire Brierley, Gavin Churcher,
e Demetriou, Xiao Yuan Duan, Debbie Elliott, John Elliott, Xunlei Rose Hu,
John Hughes, Uwe Jost, Owen Nancarrow, Toshifuma Oba, Tim O’Donoghue, Rob
Pocock, Andy Roberts, Majdi Sawalha, Michael Schillo, Clive Souter, Justin
Washtell, Sean Wilcock, Xiaoda Zhang; and other researchers who have
collaborated with me to write papers: Amal Alsaif, Junaid Arshad, Paulo Baldo,
Roberto Bisiani, Paula Bonaventura, Adrian Brockett, David Cliff, Fabio Daneluzzi,
Tony Denson, Nicos Drakos, Steven Elliott, Roger Garside, Paul Gent, Robin Haigh,
Steve Hanlon, Tony Hartley, Dan Herron, Peter Howarth, Stig Johansson, Chien-
Ming Lai, Gyuri Lajos, Geoffrey Leech, Yawei Liang, James Liu, Sam Lievesley,
Paul McKevitt, Julia Medori, Wolfgang Menzel, Dan Modd, Rachel Morton,