corpus linguistics

Reading concordances is not a trivial task

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The methodological transfer from the CL research area to the applied ring of language learning and teacher underwent no adaptation, and thus learners were presented with the same tools, corpora and analytical tasks as well-trained and professional linguists. […] Reading concordances is, by no means, a trivial task. Sinclair (1991) recommends a complex procedure which … Read more

Reading concordances is not a trivial task

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The methodological transfer from the CL research area to the applied ring of language learning and teacher underwent no adaptation, and thus learners were presented with the same tools, corpora and analytical tasks as well-trained and professional linguists. […] Reading concordances is, by no means, a trivial task. Sinclair (1991) recommends a complex procedure which … Read more

Extracting n word phrases in large texts

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This is a summary of resources posted on [Corpora-List] early 2014 CMU-Cambridge Statistical Language Modeling toolkit http://mi.eng.cam.ac.uk/~prc14/toolkit.html Sketch Engine http://www.sketchengine.co.uk/documentation/wiki/SkE/NGrams Lawrence Anthony’s AntConc  http://www.antlab.sci.waseda.ac.jp/software.html kfNgram http://www.kwicfinder.com/kfNgram/kfNgramHelp.html Colibri Software for the extraction of n-grams as well as patterns that are not consecutive (skipgrams). The software is written in C++ for speed and memory efficiency but comes … Read more

Extracting n word phrases in large texts

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This is a summary of resources posted on [Corpora-List] early 2014 CMU-Cambridge Statistical Language Modeling toolkit http://mi.eng.cam.ac.uk/~prc14/toolkit.html Sketch Engine http://www.sketchengine.co.uk/documentation/wiki/SkE/NGrams Lawrence Anthony’s AntConc  http://www.antlab.sci.waseda.ac.jp/software.html kfNgram http://www.kwicfinder.com/kfNgram/kfNgramHelp.html Colibri Software for the extraction of n-grams as well as patterns that are not consecutive (skipgrams). The software is written in C++ for speed and memory efficiency but comes … Read more