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The International Corpus of English is a unique linguistic and sociolinguistic project. When complete it will consist of fifteen or more parallel corpora of spoken English drawn from countries where English is either a majority first language or an official second language.Part I introduces the ICE project and a sub-project that investigates writing by advanced learners of English. Part II describes in detail the design of the corpora, the markup systems for speech and writing, the ICE tagset and parsing scheme, and the software packages that have been developed for automatic tagging and parsing, and for retrieving lexical, grammatical, and sociolinguistic information. Part III discusses problems in compiling the corpora, exemplified by the experience of teams in New Zealand, East Africa, and Hong Kong. Finally, Part IV considers some of the applications envisaged for the corpora: research in linguistics, sociolinguistics and natural language processing; teaching, language planning, and the establishment of norms for teaching and examining in second-language countries.

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The book is excellently edited and printed. It opens up a great number of exciting new paths for future research, and does not fail to tell the critical reader about the limitations of the great expectations raised. English World-Wide 17:2 (1996) this book will be of most interest to those working in corpus linguistics, especially with the ICE project itself. The thoughtful consideration of what constitutes 'standard English' and how it should be examined in different international settings will also be useful to a wider audience. Journal of Sociolinguistics This book, containing 19 chapters by different participants in the ICE effort, is the first easily accessible survey of what is planned and what has been achieved. Geoffrey Sampson, Natural Language Engineering

This book, containing 19 chapters by different participants in the ICE effort, is the first easily accessible survey of what is planned and what has been achieved. * Geoffrey Sampson, Natural Language Engineering * this book will be of most interest to those working in corpus linguistics, especially with the ICE project itself. The thoughtful consideration of what constitutes 'standard English' and how it should be examined in different international settings will also be useful to a wider audience. * Journal of Sociolinguistics * The book is excellently edited and printed. It opens up a great number of exciting new paths for future research, and does not fail to tell the critical reader about the limitations of the great expectations raised. * English World-Wide 17:2 (1996) *

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