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Finding Anti– Proverbs in Large-Scale Corpora

NSP or Ngram Statistics Package is a free software tool based on the computer language Perl, which has been used for the automatic analysis of large-scale corpora in different languages by searching for an unlimited number of ngrams or collocations. Extending the searching possibilities, this software can also be used for finding entities that function as parts of phraseological units or even proverbs or anti-proverbs. Its advantages lie mainly in the universality of its application concerning the language selection, the conducting of the effective and rapid searching of large-scale corpora, as well as the analysis of the results which are based on complex mathematical and statistical procedures. The results obtained in this way have been proven helpful in foreign language teaching as well as when compiling different sorts of dictionaries. The present paper discusses the application of NSP in the field of paremiology. There will be a procedure presented and exemplified by an analysis of corpora in Croatian, Hungarian, German and English language with the aim of finding targeted entities - parts of anti-proverbs

anti-proverbs; corpus linguistics; NSP

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