Transcript Using Corpora in Language Learning

Using Corpora
in Linguistics
WordSmith Tools
Íde O’Sullivan
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WordSmith Tools
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WordList
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Frequency
Alphabetical order
Statistical information
Concord
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Collocations
Clusters
Patterns
Plot
Source text
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WordSmith Tools
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Concord
 Sorting data
 Concord expansion option
 Concordance with multiple views
 Settings (language)
 Wildcards
 Advanced searching
 Close texts
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WordSmith Tools
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KeyWords
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Keyness
Study corpus
Reference corpus
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Uses of corpora
Literary analysis
 Textual analysis
 Comparative textual analysis
 Language learning
 Data-driven Learning
 Discourse analysis
 Critical discourse analysis
 Translation
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Resources
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WordSmith Tools:
http://www.lexically.net/wordsmith/
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MonoConc and ParaConc
http://www.athel.com/mono.html
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Online Resources
Tim Johns Data-driven Learning Page:
http://www.ecml.at/projects/voll/our_re
sources/graz_2002/ddrivenlrning/whatis
ddl/resources/tim_ddl_learning_page.ht
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Mike Barlow:
http://www.athel.com/corpus.html
 Other resources:
http://www.ul.ie/~appliedlanguages/LI4
113_C&C_websites.doc
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Online Concordancing
Hong Kong Virtual Language Centre
http://www.edict.com.hk/concordance/de
fault.htm
 The Compleat Lexical Tutor (Lextutor)
http://www.lextutor.ca/
 French Learner Language Oral Corpus
(flloc)
http://www.flloc.soton.ac.uk/
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Resources
Freeware Concordancers
 ConcApp:
http://www.edict.com.hk/pub/concapp/
 Create your own corpus - Disposable
corpus
 Issues of copyright
 Issue of reliability
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Resources
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British National Corpus (corpus demo)
http://info.ox.ac.uk/bnc/
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Cobuild Bank of English (wordbanks
online)
http://www.cobuild.collins.co.uk/
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Corpus Concordance Sampler
http://www.collins.co.uk/Corpus/Corpus
Search.aspx
 Limerick Corpus of Irish-English (L-CIE):
http://www.ul.ie/~lcie/
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