©2006 Barry Natusch Tools for Language Researchers Barry Natusch “ Man is a tool-using animal. Without tools he is nothing, with tools he is all. ” - Thomas Carlyle
©2006 Barry Natusch Increase in workloads Teachers and researchers need to upgrade their computer literacy They need a knowledge and analysis skills of media tools
©2006 Barry Natusch Resource Surveys
©2006 Barry Natusch General introductory lists Yahoo Spelling Grammar and Usage Identifying dialects Idioms Cliches Overused expressions Colloquialisms Onomatapoeia Word usage trivia Back-translation entertainment
©2006 Barry Natusch Specialist Directories Linguist List Texts and corpora (44) Online bibliographies (41) Dictionaries (215) Style guides (8) Browsers and editors (89 concordancers) Fonts for foreign languages, transcription (38) Markup languages (9)
©2006 Barry Natusch Examples of other specialist directories Online linguistic journals and newsletters Publishers and bookstores of linguistics works Linguistics and language projects on the web Dictionaries on the web Travellers dictionaries
©2006 Barry Natusch Specific products Computer system software Internet access General computer applications Dictionaries and translation Corpora Speech analysis and phonetics Concordancers Parsers Tools for researching pedagogical issues Statistical analysis
©2006 Barry Natusch Computer System Software Operating system eg Windows Utilities and drivers eg Partition Magic Security eg Norton Utilities, Zone Alarm
©2006 Barry Natusch Internet access application eg Outlook Express Internet browser eg Internet Explorer Search engines eg yahoo.com, google.com
©2006 Barry Natusch General computer applications Text editing eg MS Word Charting eg MS Excel Graphics eg Adobe Photoshop Reference eg Encyclopedia Britannica Presentation eg MS PowerPoint
©2006 Barry Natusch Dictionaries and translation tools Monolingual dictionaries eg Oxford English Dictionary Bilingual dictionaries eg Eijiro Specialized dictionaries eg Semantic Rhyming Dictionary Multilingual dictionaries and translation sites eg Babelfish
©2006 Barry Natusch Corpora British National Corpus ( BNC) International Computer Archive of Modern and Medieval English (ICAME) Literature on the web
©2006 Barry Natusch Speech analysis and phonetics Transcription and IPA fonts eg John Wells’ site Spectrographic analysis eg WASP Text to Speech eg Scansoft’s Naturally Speaking ( Speech to Text eg AT&T Natural Voices Desktop Text-to-Speech Engine
©2006 Barry Natusch Concordancers Collins Cobuild Direct Wordsmith MonoConc & MonoConc Pro Concordance Collins Cobuild English Collocations Ultrafind
©2006 Barry Natusch Parsers Alvey Programme Natural Language Processing Chomsky-oriented parsers
©2006 Barry Natusch Pedagogical Issues WebCT Hot Potatoes
©2006 Barry Natusch Statistics Statistica SPSS
©2006 Barry Natusch Individual Responsibility The number of tasks e-tools can perform, their sophistication, their proliferation and variety mean that researchers now need to not only keep up with their own research field but also to constantly upgrade their knowledge of tools and their skill in using them.
©2006 Barry Natusch Organizational Responsibility With heavier workloads and ongoing development being critical to an individual ’ s as well as an organization ’ s development, ongoing support and information technology training needs to be given by institutions to their personnel.