Corpus linguistics, applied linguistics & technology in language education
Ruth Breeze Ideology in corporate language: discourse analysis using Wmatrix3 2013 Annual Reports from leading companies (16) in financial services, mining, food and pharmaceutical Parts: first part, non technical, discursive, visually interesting Reference corpus: 1st BNC Sampler Business & BNC Informative texts but then only BNC Business Use of semantic categories Three case studies: size … Read more
Bergenholtz, Henning (University of Aarhus, Denmark): A corpus analysis is a superfluous ceremony and a complete waste of your time and the government’s money. This presentation is an interesting review of attitudes towards corpus-based analyses of language.
TIA 2015: FIRST CALL FOR PAPERS —————————————————– Terminology and Artificial Intelligence 2015 4 November – 6 November 2015 University of Granada, Spain http://lexicon.ugr.es/tia2015/Home.html Terminology and Artificial Intelligence (TIA) 2015 will highlight the close connection between multilingual terminology, ontologies, and the representation of specialized knowledge. Knowledge, as regarded in Terminology, is something more complex than … Read more
Dice score gives very good results of collocation candidates. The only problem is that the values of the Dice score are usually very small numbers. We have defined logDice to fix this problem. Values of the logDice have the following features: – Theoretical maximum is 14, in case when all occurrences of X co-occur with Y and all … Read more
This is a follow-up to our post Writing tools for researchers. The basics Using POS tags Collocations BNC & COCA Basic Query Syntax
Learners’ search patterns during corpus-based focus-on-form activities: A study on hands-on concordancing Authors: Pérez-Paredes, Pascual; Sánchez-Tornel, María; Calero, Jose M. Alcaraz Source: International Journal of Corpus Linguistics, Volume 17, Number 4, 2012, pp. 482-515(34) Publisher: John Benjamins Publishing Company Abstract: Our research explores the search behaviour of EFL learners (n=24) by tracking their interaction … Read more