Category: corpus linguistics

Writing tools for researchers



Updated July 18, 2014



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

Babla (just for fun)

String net

Easy everyday colocations

Collocation forbetterenglish

Netspeak

Springer exemplar

Video talks

Webcorp (The web is your corpus)

Concordancers

Antconc (Win, MacOS, lINUX)

Textstat (Windows & MacOS)

Deconstructing discourse

Clean your text 

Generate word lists (Input url)

Ngram Analyzer

Ngram Extractor

Web as a corpus (n-gram browser)

Online text comparator

Text-lex compare

Google books Ngram Viewer

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)

CRA

MICUSP

MICASE

CQPweb portal

British Academic Written English Corpus (BAWE) Sketch engine gateway

Do-it-yourself tools

Just-text

Advanced users

Beautifulsoup parser (Python)

Avoid deduplication: Onion

For more information on research group and interests, visit our website: Languages for specific purposes, language corpora, and English linguistics applied to knowledge engineering.

Stylometry and Authorship Attribution

Special-themed issue on “Stylometry and Authorship Attribution” in the journal English Studies , edited by Javier Calle-Martín and Antonio Miranda-García.

Contents:

– Calle-Martín, Javier and Antonio Miranda García (University of Málaga).
“Stylometry and Authorship Attribution: Introduction to the Special Issue”.

– Rudman, Joseph (Carnegie Mellon University, USA).
“The State of Non-traditional Authorship Attribution Studies – 2012: Some Problems and Solutions”.

– Juola, Patrick (Duquesne University, USA).
“Large-scale Experiments in Authorship Attribution”.

– Koppel, Moshe, Jonathan Schler, Shlomo Argamon and Yaron Winter (Bar Ilan University, Israel and Illinois Institute of Tecnology, USA). “The Fundamental Problem of Authorship Attribution”.

– Burrows, John and Hugh Craig (University of Newcastle, Australia).”Authors and Characters”.

– Holmes, David I. and Elizabeth D. Johnson (The College of New Jersey , USA and Wilkes University, USA)
“A Stylometric Foray into the Anglo-Zulu War of 1879”.

– Hoover, David L. (New York University, USA). “The Tutor’s Story: A Case Study of Mixed Authorship”.

– Kestemont, Mike, Kim Luyckx, Walter Daelemans and Thomas Crombez (University of Antwerp, Belgium).
“Cross-genre Authorship Verification Using Unmasking”.

– Hirst, Graeme and Vanessa Wei Feng (University of Toronto, Canada). “Changes in Style in Authors with Alzheimer’s Disease”.

– Miranda-García, Antonio and Javier Calle-Martin (University of Málaga, Spain). “The Authorship of the Disputed Federalist Papers with an Annotated Corpus”.

Stylometry and Authorship Attribution

Special-themed issue on “Stylometry and Authorship Attribution” in the journal English Studies , edited by Javier Calle-Martín and Antonio Miranda-García.

Contents:

– Calle-Martín, Javier and Antonio Miranda García (University of Málaga).
“Stylometry and Authorship Attribution: Introduction to the Special Issue”.

– Rudman, Joseph (Carnegie Mellon University, USA).
“The State of Non-traditional Authorship Attribution Studies – 2012: Some Problems and Solutions”.

– Juola, Patrick (Duquesne University, USA).
“Large-scale Experiments in Authorship Attribution”.

– Koppel, Moshe, Jonathan Schler, Shlomo Argamon and Yaron Winter (Bar Ilan University, Israel and Illinois Institute of Tecnology, USA). “The Fundamental Problem of Authorship Attribution”.

– Burrows, John and Hugh Craig (University of Newcastle, Australia).”Authors and Characters”.

– Holmes, David I. and Elizabeth D. Johnson (The College of New Jersey , USA and Wilkes University, USA)
“A Stylometric Foray into the Anglo-Zulu War of 1879”.

– Hoover, David L. (New York University, USA). “The Tutor’s Story: A Case Study of Mixed Authorship”.

– Kestemont, Mike, Kim Luyckx, Walter Daelemans and Thomas Crombez (University of Antwerp, Belgium).
“Cross-genre Authorship Verification Using Unmasking”.

– Hirst, Graeme and Vanessa Wei Feng (University of Toronto, Canada). “Changes in Style in Authors with Alzheimer’s Disease”.

– Miranda-García, Antonio and Javier Calle-Martin (University of Málaga, Spain). “The Authorship of the Disputed Federalist Papers with an Annotated Corpus”.