Everything about Contrastive analysis

🧭 Start here: a 6-step reading path

1. Read the overview: Contrastive analysisA 5-minute orientation
2. Skim a recent paper: Contrastive learning based self-supervised time-series analysisInfluential work since 2022
3. Pick up a classic book: LANDSAT-4 thematic mapper modulation transfer function (MTF) evaluationThe most-reprinted book on the subject
4. Read the landmark paper: MARKEDNESS AND THE CONTRASTIVE ANALYSIS HYPOTHESISCited 391 times
5. Go sideways: Generative second-language acquisitionA closely related topic
6. Go sideways: Theories of second-language acquisitionA closely related topic

🏆 Landmark papers (most cited)

• MARKEDNESS AND THE CONTRASTIVE ANALYSIS HYPOTHESIS

  Fred R. Eckman · 1977 · Language Learning · 391 citations

• Contrastive interlanguage analysis

  Sylviane Granger · 2015 · International Journal of Learner Corpus Research · 173 citations

• The Contrastive Analysis Hypothesis

  Ronald Wardhaugh · 1970 · TESOL Quarterly · 133 citations

• THE CONTRASTIVE ANALYSIS HYPOTHESIS AND SPELLING ERRORS

  John W. Oller, Seid M. Ziahosseiny · 1970 · Language Learning · 54 citations

• THE UNPREDICTABILITY OF CONTRASTIVE ANALYSIS

  Randal L. Whitman, Kenneth L. Jackson · 1972 · Language Learning · 21 citations

• Contrastive analysis of neuron model

  Xu Ling-Feng, Li Chuan-Dong, Chen Ling · 2016 · Acta Physica Sinica · 21 citations

• CONTRASTIVE PHONOLOGY AND ERROR ANALYSIS

  Hector Hammerly · 1982 · IRAL - International Review of Applied Linguistics in Language Teaching · 18 citations

• Confounding Factors in Contrastive Analysis

  Morten Overgaard · 2004 · Synthese · 18 citations

🆕 Influential since 2022

• Contrastive learning based self-supervised time-series analysis

  Johannes Pöppelbaum, Gavneet Singh Chadha, Andreas Schwung · 2022 · Applied Soft Computing · 128 citations

• Improving aspect-based sentiment analysis with contrastive learning

  Lingling Xu, Weiming Wang · 2023 · Natural Language Processing Journal · 30 citations

• Contrastive Bayesian Analysis for Deep Metric Learning

  Shichao Kan, Zhiquan He, Yigang Cen · 2023 · IEEE Transactions on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence · 29 citations

• Interactive Visual Cluster Analysis by Contrastive Dimensionality Reduction

  Jiazhi Xia, Linquan Huang, Weixing Lin · 2022 · IEEE Transactions on Visualization and Computer Graphics · 27 citations

• LandslideCL: towards robust landslide analysis guided by contrastive learning

  Penglei Li, Yi Wang, Guosen Xu · 2022 · Landslides · 23 citations

📚 Books worth reading

• 📕LANDSAT-4 thematic mapper modulation transfer function (MTF) evaluationRobert A. Schowengerdt · 1983
• 📕Discourse Markers Across LanguagesSiepmann Dirk · 2004
• The chemistry of contrast agents in medical magnetic resonance imagingLothar Helm · 2013
• 📕Sprache in der WissenschaftEglé Kontutyte, Vaiva Zeimantiene · 2015
• 📕«Wenn Jemand eine Reise Tut ... »Marta Smykala · 2015
• 📕Kontaktanzeigen KontrastivVivian Pereira-Koschorreck · 2016
• 📕Corpus-Based Studies on Language VarietiesFrancisco Alonso Almeida, Laura Cruz García · 2016
• Übersetzung und LeserJelle Stegeman · 1991

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