Learning Summary Week 3

Corpus linguistics

Sources of language corpora

        Subscribe to a large corpus provider such as the British National Corpus (BNC)  

                  - http://www.natcorp.ox.ac.uk/ 

        Use web concordancing

            - http://corpus.leeds.ac.uk/protected/query.html (general corpus; English)

            - http://corpus.byu.edu/ (general corpus; American/British English)

            - http://lextutor.ca/conc/eng/ (general and specialized corpora; English)

            - http://www.arts.chula.ac.th/~ling/TNCII/ (general corpus; Thai)

-http://www.arts.chula.ac.th/~ling/ParaConc/index.html (English-Thai parallel concordance)

    Compile own corpora and analyse data using corpus analysis software

    -  Antconc’(http://www.antlab.sci.waseda.ac.jp/software.html) (for monolingual corpus)

            - ‘Wordsmith’ (http://www.lexically.net/wordsmith/) (for monolingual corpus)

            - ‘Paraconc’ (http://www.athel.com/para.html) (for multilingual corpora)