oliver mason - publications

Here is a list of my publications. Some of them are already available on-line, and I will try to put on-line versions of the others as time permits.

2008

Mason, Oliver (2008): ‘Developing Software for Corpus Research’ International Journal of English Studies, vol.8, no.1, p.141-156. [PDF]
Gerbig, Andrea; Mason, Oliver (eds)(2008): Language, People, Numbers: Corpus Linguistics and Society, Amsterdam: Rodopi. [Amazon]
Mason, Oliver (2008): ‘Stringing together a sentence: linearity and the lexis-syntax interface’, in Gerbig and Mason (2008), p.231-248.

Mason, Oliver (2007): ‘From lexis to syntax: the use of multi-word units in grammatical description’, Proceedings of Lexis and Grammar 2007, [PDF]
Mason, Oliver (2007): ‘Multi-Word Units as a Model of Grammar’, Proceedings of CL2007, Birmingham

Mason, Oliver (2006): ‘Using corpora in teaching linguistics’, in Gerbig, A and Müller-Wood, A How globalization affects the teaching of English: studying culture through texts, Edwin Mellen Press, p.111-130.
Mason, Oliver (2006): The automatic extraction of linguistic information from text corpora, PhD thesis, University of Birmingham. [eTheses]
Mason, Oliver; Platt, Rhiannon (2006): ‘Embracing a New Creed: Lexical Patterning and the Encoding of Ideology’. College Literature, Issue 33.2, p.155-170. ISSN: 0093-3139

Mason, Oliver (2005): ‘Automatic Identification of English Multi-Word Units’, In: Cosme, C; Gouverneur, C; Meunier, F; et al. (eds): Phraseology 2005: The many faces of Phraseology. An interdisciplinary conference. (Phraséologie 2005. La phraséologie dans tous ses états. Colloque interdisciplinaire). Louvain-la-Neuve (Université catholique de Louvain), p.261-264

Mason, Oliver; Hunston, Susan (2004): ‘The Automatic Recognition of Verb Patterns: A Feasibility Study’. International Journal of Corpus Linguistics, vol.9, no.2, p.253-270. ISSN 1384-6655
Mason, Oliver (2004): ‘Automatic Processing of Local Grammar Patterns’. Proceedings of the 7th Annual Colloquium for the UK Special Interest Group for Computational Linguistics, University of Birmingham, 6-7th January 2004, p.166-171. ISBN: 07044 24533

Berglund, Ylva; Mason, Oliver (2003): ‘But this formula doesn’t mean anything…!?”: Some reflections on parameters of texts and their significance.’ IN: Wilson, A., Rayson, P. and McEnery, T. (eds.) (2003) Corpus Linguistics by the Lune: a festschrift for Geoffrey Leech, Frankfurt: Peter Lang. ISBN 3-631-50952-2
Srinivas, Prashanti R.; Gusfield, Daniel; Mason, Oliver; Gertz, Michael; Hogarth, Michael; Stone, James; Jones, Edward G.; Gorin, Frederic A. (2003): ‘Neuroanatomical Term Generation and Comparison Between Two Terminologies’. Neuroinformatics Journal, vol. 1, p.177-192. ISSN: 1539-2791

Mason, Oliver; Grove-Stephensen, Ian (2002): ‘Automated Free Text Marking with Paperless School’. Proceedings of CAA, 6th International Computer Assissted Assessment Conference, Loughborough, July 9th and 10th. p.213-219. ISBN: 0-9539572-1-7
Mason, Oliver; Berglund, Ylva (2002): ‘Low-level parameters reflecting the naturalness of texts’. Proceedings of JADT2002, 6th International Conference on Textual Data Statistical Analysis, Saint Malo, March 13-15 2002. Vol.2, p.507-516. ISBN: 2-7261-1198X
Berglund, Ylva; Mason, Oliver (2002): ‘The influence of external factors on learner performance’. Proceedings of the Fourth International Conference on Teaching and Language Corpora, Graz 19-24 July, 2000. Amsterdam: Rodopi. p.205-215.

Berglund, Ylva; Mason, Oliver (2001): ‘But this formula doesn’t mean anything…!?”: Some reflections on parameters of texts and their significance’. Paper given at Corpus Linguistics 2001 (Lancaster), and published as Berglund and Mason (2003) [see above].
Mason, Oliver; Uzar, Rafal (2001): ‘Locating the zero article: how TEFL can benefit from NLP’. Guy Aston & Lou Burnard (eds) Corpora in the description and teaching of English: Papers from the 5th ESSE conference, Bologna: CLUEB, p.44-52. ISBN: 88-491-1839-2

Mason, Oliver (2000): Programming for Corpus Linguistics: How to do Text Analysis in Java, Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press. ISBN: 0-7486-1407-9 [Amazon]
Mason, Oliver; Uzar, Rafal (2000): ‘NLP meets TEFL: Tracing the Zero Article’ Proceedings of PALC’99, Lodz, p.105-115. Peter Lang.
Mason, Oliver (2000): ‘A Developer’s View of Corpus Linguistics: The CUE System’ IN: Christian Mair and Marianne Hundt (eds.), Corpus Linguistics and Linguistic Theory, Amsterdam: Rodopi, p.233-241.

Mason, Oliver (1999): ‘Parameters of Collocation: The Word in the Centre of Gravity’ IN: John M. Kirk (ed.), Corpora Galore: Analyses and Techniques in Describing English, Amsterdam: Rodopi, p.267-280.

Mason, Oliver (1998): ‘The CUE Corpus Access Tool’. Workshop on Distributing and Accessing Linguistic Resources, p. 20-27, Granada, Spain, 1998.
Tufis, Dan; Mason, Oliver (1998): ‘Tagging Romanian Texts: a Case Study for QTAG, a Language Independent Probabilistic Tagger’ Proceedings of the First International Conference on Language Resources & Evaluation (LREC), Granada (Spain), 28-30 May 1998, p.589-596
Sinclair, John; Mason, Oliver; Ball, Jackie; Barnbrook, Geoff (1998): ‘Language Independent Statistical Software for Corpus Exploration’ Computers and the Humanities, Vol 31, No 3, p.229-255

Mason, Oliver; Tufis, Dan (1997): ‘Probabilistic Tagging in a Multi-lingual Environment: Making an English Tagger Understand Romanian’. Proceedings of the Third International TELRI Seminar, Montecatini, October 1997, p.165-168
Mason, Oliver (1997): ‘CUE - A Software System for Corpus Analysis’ Proceedings of the Second TELRI Seminar, Kaunas, p.85-90
Mason, Oliver (1997): ‘The Weight of Words: An Investigation of Lexical Gravity’ Proceedings of PALC’97, Lodz, p.361-375

Mason, Oliver (1996): ‘Corpus Access Software: The CUE System’ TEXT Technology, Vol 6, No 4, p.257-266

Galle, Matthias; Jakobs, Oliver (1994): ‘Zum Aufbau sehr großer Sprachkorpora ( >10^7 Wörter) und ihre Analyse im Rahmen der VLLC-Projekte der LDV/CL an der Uni Trier’ (On assembling very large linguistic corpora (VLLC, > 10^7 running words) and their analysis in the VLLC-projects at the Dept. of Computational Linguistics at Trier University), Proceedings of the Workshop Lexikon + Text, Tübingen
Jakobs, Oliver (1994): ‘Implementation eines Client-Server-Modells zum Zugriff auf VLLCs innerhalb eines Rechner-Netzwerkes’ (Implementation of a client-server-model for accessing very large linguistic corpora inside a computer network) Technical Report, Dept. of Computational Linguistics, Trier University

Galle, Matthias; Jakobs, Oliver; Kesten, Peter; Kolompár, Amancio; Mehler, Alexander (1992): ‘Dokumentation des Studienprojektes “Aufbereitung des dpa Korpus”’ (Documentation of the student project “Preprocessing/Converting the dpa (German Press Agency) corpus”), Technical Report, Dept. of Computational Linguistics, Trier University