The representativeness threshold for the CETAsubcorpusof the Coruña Corpus

  1. Elena Alfaya Lamas 1
  2. Garrote Espantoso, Menchu
  1. 1 Universidade da Coruña
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    Universidade da Coruña

    La Coruña, España

    ROR https://ror.org/01qckj285

Revista:
LFE: revista de lenguas para fines específicos

ISSN: 1133-1127

Año de publicación: 2021

Volumen: 27

Número: 2

Páginas: 125-139

Tipo: Artículo

DOI: 10.20420/RLFE.2021.440 DIALNET GOOGLE SCHOLAR lock_openDialnet editor

Otras publicaciones en: LFE: revista de lenguas para fines específicos

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Resumen

The concept of representativeness is the main distinguishing characteristic of specialised corpora in comparison to other sets of texts. The Coruña Corpus of English Scientific Writing currently comprises four published subcorpora (astronomy, life sciences, history, and philosophy) plus three others under compilation (physics, chemistry and linguistics). In this paper we aim to assess the lexical density of the text samples in CETA, the Corpus of English Texts on Astronomy, by means of the ReCor tool, a posteriori. The study is motivated by the following question: does quantitative representativeness analysis using ReCor provide, in the form of a cross-check, further validation of previous research on the representativeness of CETA? Previous work (Crespo and Moskowich, 2010) has indicated that the CETA corpus is well designed and valid for the purposes for which it was intended. We will here suggest metrics to measure these findings. The most important contribution of this study is to offer quantitative data collection results using the ReCor tool, which allows data triangulation and consequently ensures overall data quality. Results show that data analysis with the ReCor tool supports previous findings, and thus we are able to verify that CETA is indeed representative of the language of its time and register.

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