Corpus generation and text processing

The introduction of corpus linguistics raises a strong defiance against the rationalits who argue that empirical language study is a skewed approach which deserves little admiration. However, advancement of computer technology, availability of huge language data-base, and application of computer in language research (in storing, sorting, processing, retrieving, etc.) confirm sustainable growth and durability of corpus linguistics. Such recent developments open up many new and exciting areas of language study hitherto unknown to the linguistic community. The findings from corpora defy the observation of rationalists by supplying new evidence for theory making as well as language research. Here we make an attempt to present an overall scenario of corpus linguistics with its birth and growth, issues related to its generation and different techniques applied fot its processing.