Using Corpora in Linguistics

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Using Corpora in Linguistics WordSmith Tools Íde O’Sullivan Regional Writing Centre www.ul.ie/rwc

Regional Writing Centre WordSmith Tools WordList Frequency Alphabetical order Statistical information Concord Collocations Clusters Patterns Plot Source text Regional Writing Centre

Regional Writing Centre WordSmith Tools Concord Sorting data Concord expansion option Concordance with multiple views Settings (language) Wildcards Advanced searching Close texts Regional Writing Centre

Regional Writing Centre WordSmith Tools KeyWords Keyness Study corpus Reference corpus Regional Writing Centre

Regional Writing Centre Uses of corpora Literary analysis Textual analysis Comparative textual analysis Language learning Data-driven Learning Discourse analysis Critical discourse analysis Translation Regional Writing Centre

Regional Writing Centre Resources WordSmith Tools: http://www.lexically.net/wordsmith/ MonoConc and ParaConc http://www.athel.com/mono.html Regional Writing Centre

Regional Writing Centre Online Resources Tim Johns Data-driven Learning Page: http://www.ecml.at/projects/voll/our_resources/graz_2002/ddrivenlrning/whatisddl/resources/tim_ddl_learning_page.htm Mike Barlow: http://www.athel.com/corpus.html Other resources: http://www.ul.ie/~appliedlanguages/LI4113_C&C_websites.doc Regional Writing Centre

Regional Writing Centre Online Concordancing Hong Kong Virtual Language Centre http://www.edict.com.hk/concordance/default.htm The Compleat Lexical Tutor (Lextutor) http://www.lextutor.ca/ French Learner Language Oral Corpus (flloc) http://www.flloc.soton.ac.uk/ Regional Writing Centre

Regional Writing Centre Resources Freeware Concordancers ConcApp: http://www.edict.com.hk/pub/concapp/ Create your own corpus - Disposable corpus Issues of copyright Issue of reliability Regional Writing Centre

Regional Writing Centre Resources British National Corpus (corpus demo) http://info.ox.ac.uk/bnc/ Cobuild Bank of English (wordbanks online) http://www.cobuild.collins.co.uk/ Corpus Concordance Sampler http://www.collins.co.uk/Corpus/CorpusSearch.aspx Limerick Corpus of Irish-English (L-CIE): http://www.ul.ie/~lcie/ Regional Writing Centre