Corpus linguistics, applied linguistics & technology in language education
Corpus Linguistics on the South 13 The Hillary Clinton emails: corpus linguistics meets the real world Rachele de Felice, University College London Link AntFileConverter: Pdf to plain text Redactions. Materially annoying, so much is deleted that POS tagging becomes problematic. Lots of repeated materials because of e-mail chains. What about names and entities? H, HC, … Read more
The Graphic Online Language Diagnostic (“GOLD”) is a corpus tool that allows language educators to submit and analyze language data. GOLD was developed by the Center for Advanced Language Proficiency Education and Research (“CALPER”) at The Pennsylvania State University (“PSU”), University Park, PA, USA under a grant from the U.S. Department of Education (Title … Read more
Michael Barlow’s site (Link). European Parallel Corpus (Link) OPUS (Link) Parallel corpora in Sketch Engine (Link) AntPConc software (Link)
From the TAALES website: Kyle, K. & Crossley, S. A. (2015). Automatically assessing lexical sophistication: Indices, tools, findings, and application. TESOL Quarterly 49(4), pp. 757-786. doi: 10.1002/tesq.194 TAALES is a tool that measures over 400 classic and new indices of lexical sophistication, and includes indices related to a wide range of sub-constructs. TAALES indices have … Read more