1. ©2006 Barry Natusch Tools for Language Researchers Barry Natusch “ Man is a tool-using animal. Without tools he is nothing, with tools he is all. ” - Thomas Carlyle

2. ©2006 Barry Natusch Increase in workloads Teachers and researchers need to upgrade their computer literacy They need a knowledge and analysis skills of media tools

3. ©2006 Barry Natusch Resource Surveys

4. ©2006 Barry Natusch General introductory lists Yahoo http://picks.yahoo.com/picks/Social_Science/Linguistics_and_Languages Spelling Grammar and Usage Identifying dialects Idioms Cliches Overused expressions Colloquialisms Onomatapoeia Word usage trivia Back-translation entertainment

5. ©2006 Barry Natusch Specialist Directories Linguist List http://www.linguistlist.org/software.html Texts and corpora (44) Online bibliographies (41) Dictionaries (215) Style guides (8) Browsers and editors (89 concordancers) Fonts for foreign languages, transcription (38) Markup languages (9)

6. ©2006 Barry Natusch Examples of other specialist directories Online linguistic journals and newsletters http://www.ling.rochester.edu/links/journals.html Publishers and bookstores of linguistics works http://www.ling.rochester.edu/links/journals.html Linguistics and language projects on the web http://www.ling.rochester.edu/links/pages.html Dictionaries on the web http://www.yourdictionary.com/ Travellers dictionaries http://dictionaries.travlang.com/

7. ©2006 Barry Natusch Specific products Computer system software Internet access General computer applications Dictionaries and translation Corpora Speech analysis and phonetics Concordancers Parsers Tools for researching pedagogical issues Statistical analysis

8. ©2006 Barry Natusch Computer System Software Operating system eg Windows Utilities and drivers eg Partition Magic Security eg Norton Utilities, Zone Alarm

9. ©2006 Barry Natusch Internet access Email application eg Outlook Express Internet browser eg Internet Explorer Search engines eg yahoo.com, google.com

10. ©2006 Barry Natusch General computer applications Text editing eg MS Word Charting eg MS Excel Graphics eg Adobe Photoshop Reference eg Encyclopedia Britannica Presentation eg MS PowerPoint

11. ©2006 Barry Natusch Dictionaries and translation tools Monolingual dictionaries eg Oxford English Dictionary http://www.oed.com Bilingual dictionaries eg Eijiro http://www.alc.co.jp/ Specialized dictionaries eg Semantic Rhyming Dictionary http://www.rhymezone.com/ Multilingual dictionaries and translation sites eg Babelfish http://world.altavista.com/

12. ©2006 Barry Natusch Corpora British National Corpus ( BNC) http://www.hcu.ox.ac.uk/BNC/ International Computer Archive of Modern and Medieval English (ICAME) http://www.hit.uib.no/icame.html Literature on the web http://www.ling.lancs.ac.uk/staff/visitors/kenji/literatu.htm

13. ©2006 Barry Natusch Speech analysis and phonetics Transcription and IPA fonts eg John Wells’ site http://www.phon.ucl.ac.uk/home/wells/ipa-unicode.htm Spectrographic analysis eg WASP http://www.phon.ucl.ac.uk/resource/sfs/wasp.htm Text to Speech eg Scansoft’s Naturally Speaking (http://www.scansoft.com/ Speech to Text eg AT&T Natural Voices Desktop Text-to-Speech Engine http://www.naturalvoices.att.com/demos/

14. ©2006 Barry Natusch Concordancers Collins Cobuild Direct http://titania.cobuild.collins.co.uk/direct_info.html Wordsmith http://www.liv.ac.uk/~ms2928/ MonoConc & MonoConc Pro http://www.athel.com/mono.html Concordance http://www.rjcw.freeserve.co.uk/ Collins Cobuild English Collocations http://titania.cobuild.collins.co.uk/collscd.html Ultrafind http://www.ultradesign.com/

15. ©2006 Barry Natusch Parsers Alvey Programme http://www.cl.cam.ac.uk/Research/NL/anlt.html Natural Language Processing http://www.cs.kun.nl/agfl/ Chomsky-oriented parsers http://www.nyu.edu/pages/linguistics/parsers.html

16. ©2006 Barry Natusch Pedagogical Issues WebCT http://www.webct.com/products Hot Potatoes http://web.uvic.ca/hrd/halfbaked/

17. ©2006 Barry Natusch Statistics Statistica http://www.statsoftinc.com/ SPSS http://spss.com/

18. ©2006 Barry Natusch Individual Responsibility The number of tasks e-tools can perform, their sophistication, their proliferation and variety mean that researchers now need to not only keep up with their own research field but also to constantly upgrade their knowledge of tools and their skill in using them.

19. ©2006 Barry Natusch Organizational Responsibility With heavier workloads and ongoing development being critical to an individual ’ s as well as an organization ’ s development, ongoing support and information technology training needs to be given by institutions to their personnel.