1. Using Corpora in Linguistics
WordSmith Tools
Íde O’Sullivan
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2. Regional Writing Centre
WordSmith Tools
WordList
Frequency
Alphabetical order
Statistical information
Concord
Collocations
Clusters
Patterns
Plot
Source text
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WordSmith Tools
Concord
Sorting data
Concord expansion option
Concordance with multiple views
Settings (language)
Wildcards
Advanced searching
Close texts
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WordSmith Tools
KeyWords
Keyness
Study corpus
Reference corpus
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Uses of corpora
Literary analysis
Textual analysis
Comparative textual analysis
Language learning
Data-driven Learning
Discourse analysis
Critical discourse analysis
Translation
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Resources
WordSmith Tools:
MonoConc and ParaConc
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Online Resources
Tim Johns Data-driven Learning Page:
Mike Barlow:
Other resources:
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Online Concordancing
Hong Kong Virtual Language Centre
The Compleat Lexical Tutor (Lextutor)
French Learner Language Oral Corpus (flloc)
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Resources
Freeware Concordancers
ConcApp:
Create your own corpus - Disposable corpus
Issues of copyright
Issue of reliability
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Resources
British National Corpus (corpus demo)
Cobuild Bank of English (wordbanks online)
Corpus Concordance Sampler
Limerick Corpus of Irish-English (L-CIE):
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