Visual GISting: bringing together corpus linguistics and Geographical Information Systems.
Corpus linguistics and Geographical Information Systems (GIS) are approaches exploiting computer-based methodologies in the study of, respectively, language and language usage, and spatial patterns in geographical databases. We present an approach that uses corpus methods to bridge the gap between t...
| Publicado en: | Literary & Linguistic Computing Vol. 26; no. 3; pp. 297 - 315 |
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Sep2011
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