Corpus linguistics, computer tools, and applications

Contents: Barbara Lewandowska-Tomaszczyk: PALC 2007: Where are we now? – Paul Rayson/Dawn Archer/Alistair Baron/Nicholas Smith: Travelling through time with corpus annotation software – Eugene H. Casad: Parsing texts and compiling a dictionary with shoebox – Belinda Maia/Rui Silva/Anabela Barreiro/Cecília Fróis: ‘N-grams in search of theories’ – Piotr Pęzik/Jung-jae Kim/Dietrich Rebholz-Schuhmann: MedEvi - A permuted concordancer for the biomedical domain – Patrick Hanks: Why the «word sense disambiguation problem» can’t be solved, and what should be done instead – Rafał