Corpus linguistics, applied linguistics & technology in language education
Here you can find some useful resources to carry out your transcription project. MacWhinney, B. (2000). The CHILDES Project: Tools for Analyzing Talk. 3rd Edition. Mahwah, NJ: Lawrence Erlbaum Associates. Brian MacWhinney (2019) Tools for Analyzing Talk. Part 1: The CHAT Transcription Format. URL:https://childes.talkbank.org/ Leech (2004): types of annotation phonetic annotation e.g. adding information about … Read more
The Multidimensional Analysis Tagger is a program for Windows that replicates Biber’s (1988) Variation across Speech and Writing tagger for the multidimensional functional analysis of English texts, generally applied for studies on text type or genre variation. The program can generate a grammatically annotated version of the corpus selected as well as the necessary statistics to perform a … Read more
Why TextWrangler? Some Regex BBEdit / TextWrangler Regular Expression Guide ————————————————————————————————————————————————————————————————————— BBEdit / BBEdit-Lite / TextWrangler Regular Expression Guide Modified: 2018/08/10 01:19 ————————————————————————————————————————————————————————————————————— NOTES: The PCRE engine (Perl Compatible Regular Expressions) is what BBEdit and TextWrangler use. Items I’m unsure of are marked ‘# PCRE?’. The list while fairly comprehensive is not complete. ———————————————————————————————————————————————————————————————————— PATTERN … Read more
Online Data-Driven Learning SPOC “Improving Writing Through Corpora” is now live at the following address:https://edge.edx.org/courses/course-v1:UQx+SLATx+2019/about Improvements in Version 2 include: A) All course images and functionality have been updated for the ‘new’ Sketch Engine interface. B) New functions specific to the ‘new’ Sketch Engine interface are now included in the course (e.g. Good Dictionary EXamples … Read more
Following three successful conventions, the 4th Learner Corpus Studies in Asia and the World (LCSAW4) will be held on Sunday, 29, September2019, at Kobe University Centennial Hall in Japan. URL LCSAW4 is organized in cooperation with the ESRC-AHRC project led byDr. Tony McEnery at Lancaster University, UK. Invited Speakers Tony McEnery Patrick Rebuschatt Padraic Monaghan … Read more
In this session we’ll look at some corpus linguistics methods that can be used to analyse a text or a group of texts automatically. You can find further information and resources in my book Corpus Linguistics for Education. A Guide for Research. Routledge. In a way, corpus linguistics could be seen as a type of … Read more