Université de Montréal - Thèse sous forme numérique

1904.3.4. Selection of contextsFor each validated term, we select twenty contexts illustrating how the term is used in thecorpus texts. Contexts provide the information necessary for the following stages of themethodology: identification of actantial structures (section 4.3.5), frame identification(section 4.3.6), and annotation of the linguistic behaviour of terms (section 4.3.8). As thecorpus constituted for each language is sufficiently large (approximately 2,500,000 forms),it was possible to collect a representative variety of term behaviour patterns and a widevariety of term related information. The paragraphs below provide several types of data thatwere privileged when selecting contexts.Simple and clear attestations of target terms. Contexts were selected when allparticipants in the meaning of terms were expressed. The first three of the set oftwenty contexts typically correspond to simple and clear attestations of terms.They were also taken from distinct corpus texts.violate 1Section 25(8) does not violate s. 15 of the Charter.Cooccurrents. Contexts were selected when they illustrated as many as possibleleft and right cooccurrents of target terms. The cooccurrents can be mandatoryor optional participants in the meaning of the terms. The mandatory participantscorrespond to the actantial structures of the verbs (section 4.3.5). Only the mostfrequent patterns were retained. For instance, the context of prove 1 belowillustrates four different cooccurrents: the Crown, its case, "beyond a reasonabledoubt" and at trial. These cooccurrents are very frequent.prove 1The standard applied by an appellate court, namely that the evidence against anaccused is so overwhelming that conviction is inevitable or would invariably result,