Corpus linguistics

Source: Wikipedia. Pages: 110. Chapters: Archaeological corpora, Archaeological corpora documents, Corpora, Natural language processing toolkits, Rosetta Stone, Behistun Inscription, Epic of Gilgamesh, Dead Sea Scrolls, Text corpus, Hapax legomenon, Book of the Dead, Cyrus Cylinder, List of Book of the Dead spells, Amarna letters, Cylinder of Nabonidus, Text mining, Cleopatra's Needle, Treebank, N-gram, Enûma EliS, Chu Silk Manuscript, Part-of-speech tagging, General Architecture for Text Engineering, Amarna letters-great powers' club, Abydos King List, Mawangdui Silk Texts, Brown Corpus, Ebla tablets, Elephantine papyri, Corpus Coranicum, Obelisk of Theodosius, Palermo stone, David G. Hays, Pyramid Texts, Tatoeba, Collocation, Birch bark document, Birch bark letter no. 292, Coffin Texts, List of natural language processing toolkits, Yarowsky algorithm, Corpus of Contemporary American English, Distinguo, Stefan Th. Gries, Survey of English Usage, Corpus Inscriptionum Latinarum, German Reference Corpus, List of runestones, Thesaurus Linguae Graecae, International Corpus of English, Inscriptiones Graecae, Language and Computers, MAREC, Moses, Natural Language Toolkit, Croatian National Corpus, FrameNet, LinguaStream, Neo-Assyrian Text Corpus Project, Scottish Corpus of Texts and Speech, Corpus Speculorum Etruscorum, American National Corpus, Inscriptiones Latinae Selectae, Quranic Arabic Corpus, Learning Based Java, Extended Affix Grammar, Russian National Corpus, Semantic prosody, Speech corpus, MontyLingua, Nuribta, CIMRM, Buckeye Corpus, Hamshahri Corpus, Oxford English Corpus, Clach a' Charridh, British National Corpus, L'Année épigraphique, PropBank, Lancaster-Oslo-Bergen Corpus, Mallet, TalkBank, Enron Corpus, Concordancer, CHILDES, Corpus Inscriptionum Etruscarum, Bijankhan Corpus, List of ancient king lists, Corpus Linguistics and Linguistic Theory, Slovenian National Corpus, TMC Corpus, Linguistic Data Consortium, Bank of English, VerbNet, WordSmith, Keyness, International Journal of Corpus Linguistics, Keyword, OpenNLP. Excerpt: The Cyrus Cylinder is an ancient Persian clay cylinder, now broken into several fragments, on which is written a declaration in Akkadian cuneiform script in the name of the Achaemenid Persian king Cyrus the Great. It dates from the 6th century BC and was discovered in the ruins of Babylon in Mesopotamia (now Iraq) in 1879. It is in the possession of the British Museum, which sponsored the expedition that discovered the Cylinder. The Cylinder was created following the Persian conquest of Babylon in 539 BC, when the Persian army under Cyrus the Great invaded and conquered the Neo-Babylonian Empire, bringing it under the control of the Persian Empire. The text on the Cylinder praises Cyrus the Great, listing his genealogy as a king from a line of kings. The Babylonian king Nabonidus, (see earlier Cylinder of Nabonidus), who was defeated and deposed by Cyrus, is denounced as an impious oppressor of the people of Babylonia and his low-born origins are implicitly contrasted to Cyrus's kingly heritage. The victorious Cyrus is portrayed as having been chosen by the chief Babylonian god Marduk to restore peace and order to the Babylonians. The text states that Cyrus was welcomed by the people of Babylon as their new ruler and entered the city in peace. It appeals to Marduk to protect and help Cyrus and his son Cambyses. It exalts Cyrus's efforts as a benefactor of the citizens of Babylonia who improved their live...