Alex Chengyu Fang

Department of Phonetics and Linguistics
University College London
Gower Street, London WC1E 6BT

• the HKUST Corpus
• the ICE Corpus
• the PROSICE Corpus

HKUST refers to the Hong Kong University of Science and Technology. The corpus contains one million words of samples of computer science text books written in English. The corpus was completed in 1992 at the Language Centre of the university.

I started the project and designed the structure of the corpus.

The following publication was made:

• Fang, A.C. 1992. Building a Corpus of Computer Science English. In English Language Corpora: Design, Analysis and Exploitation, ed. by J. Aarts, P. de Hann, and N. Oostdijk. Amsterdam: Rodopi. pp 73-78.

ICE stands for the International Corpus of English, an international project to investigate varieties of English as an international language. The project was started by Professor Sidney Greenbaum, the late Director of the Survey of English Usage, University College London.

My involvement in the project was the design of both a wordclass tagger and a syntactic parser for the project. I also extensively changed the annotation schemes whereby the British component (ICE-GB) has been analysed both grammatically and syntactically.

My publications about ICE include:

• Fang, A.C. Forthcoming. Prepositional Phrases: Towards the Automatic Determination of their Syntactic Functions.
• Fang, A.C. 1997. Verb Forms and Subcategorisations. In Oxford Literary and Linguistic Computing, 12:4.
• Fang, A.C. and Yamazaki, S. 1997. The International Corpus of English and TEFL: In Memory of Professor Sidney Greenbaum. In Daito Gogaku Kyoiku Ronshu, 5. Tokyo: Daito Bunka Univeristy. pp 7-39.
• Yamazaki, S. and A.C. Fang. 1997. Corpus-Based English Teaching. In Daito Bunka Daigaku Gogaku Kyoiku Kenkyujo Shoho, No. 15. Tokyo: Daito Bunka University. pp 2-4.
• Fang, A.C. 1996a. AUTASYS: Automatic Tagging and Cross-Tagset Mapping. In Comparing English World Wide: The International Corpus of English, ed. by Sidney Greenbaum. Oxford: Oxford University Press. pp 110-124.
• Fang, A.C. 1996b. Automatically Generalising a Wide-Coverage Formal Grammar. In Synchronic Corpus Linguistics, ed. by C. Percy, C. Meyer, and I. Lancashire. Amsterdam and Atlanta: Rodopi. pp 131-146.
• Fang, A.C. 1996c. The Survey Parser: Design and Development. In Comparing English World Wide: The International Corpus of English, ed. by Sidney Greenbaum. Oxford: Oxford University Press. pp 142-160.
• Fang, A.C. 1995. The Distribution of Infinitives of Contemporary British English: A Study Based on the British ICE Corpus. In Oxford Literary and Linguistic Computing, 10:4. pp 247-257.
• Fang, A.C. 1994. ICE: Applications and Possibilities in NLP. In Proceedings of International Workshop on Directions of Lexical Research, 15-17 August 1994, Beijing. pp 23-44.
• Fang, A.C. and G. Nelson. 1994. Tagging the SEU Corpus: a LOB to ICE Experiment Using AUTASYS. In Oxford Literary and Linguistic Computing, 9:2. pp 189-194.

PROSICE is a corpus for studies of English prosodic features. It is a collection of re-recorded ICE-GB texts with high technical specifications. The corpus has been syntactically analysed and temporally aligned. The corpus was constucted by Dr Mark Huckvale and me.

My contribution to the project mainly included the syntactic analyses of the corpus.

Publications include:

• Fang, A.C. and M. Huckvale. 1996. Syncronising Syntax with Speech Signals. In Speech, Hearing, and Language, ed. by V. Hazan, M. Holland, S. Rosen. Department of Phonetics and Linguistics, University College London. pp 11-26.
• Huckvale, M. and A.C. Fang. 1996. PROSICE: A Spoken English Database for Prosodic Research. In Comparing English World Wide: The International Corpus of English, ed. by Sidney Greenbaum. Oxford: Oxford University Press. pp 262-279.