Jessica Brown: It’s an exciting time for grammar, according to the experts. But there’s a need for fresh thinking and the word itself can be misleading
Source: www.theguardian.com
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Jessica Brown: It’s an exciting time for grammar, according to the experts. But there’s a need for fresh thinking and the word itself can be misleading
Source: www.theguardian.com
See on Scoop.it – Applied linguistics and knowledge engineering
Brief overview
Creating your corpus and data upload
Finding metadata for source documents in the Sketch Engine
Concordancer
Using the Expert option: ‘Context’ in the Sketch Engine
Thinning down your concordance output
Using Sketch Difference for lexical disambiguation
Taller sobre herramientas de análisis textual: La herramienta Sketch EngineFacultad de Filología, Universidad Complutense de Madrid, Junio 2011 (última revisión noviembre 2011)
Organizado por:
Doaa Samy (doaa_samy@hotmail.com) (doaasamy@cu.edu.eg)
Ana Fernández Pampillón Cesteros (apampi@filol.ucm.es)
Jorge Arús Hita (jarus@filol.ucm.es)
Some useful references on more general issues
Bem, D. J. 1987. Writing the empirical journal article. In M. P. Zanna & J. M. Darley (Eds.), The compleat academic: A practical guide for the beginning social scientist (pp. 171-201). New York: Random House. (PDF)
Glasman-Deal, H. 2009. Science Research Writing: A Guide for Non-Native Speakers of English. London: Imperial College.
Online DBs
Word neighbors
Webcorp (The web is your corpus)
Concordancers
Antconc (Win, MacOS, lINUX)
Deconstructing discourse
Clean your text
Generate word lists (Input url)
Web as a corpus (n-gram browser)
Microsoft n-gram tool (just for fun and interesting lists of most frequent 100k words based on bing data mining)
AWL highlighter (In groups of ten sublists) More on the AWL.
Online corpora
Scientext
Academic words in American English (Mark Davies COCA)
British Academic Written English Corpus (BAWE) Sketch engine gateway
Do-it-yourself tools
Advanced users
Beautifulsoup parser (Python)
For more information on research group and interests, visit our website: Languages for specific purposes, language corpora, and English linguistics applied to knowledge engineering.