9. corpus linguistics 1

AntConc

most common tool used in corpus analysis

BROWN Corpus

named after brown university, first corpus contains approximately. 1 mio. words of written American English

CLAWS

most frequent used tagger, CLAWS7 tagset used currently

concordance

a listing of individual words form in a given specific context, where the exact nature of the context depends on the requirements of analysis and which particular program one may be using

corpus

collection of spoken or written text to be used for linguistic analysis

corpus linguistics

• authenticity of texts

• representativeness

• electronic text processing

• size

• systematic analysis

• replicablity

global web-based English corpus

(GloWbE) synchronic corpus

international corpus of English

(ICE) synchronic corpus

keyword in context (KWIC)

can search anything from individual letters to larger constructions like sentences

Mark-up

• sentence IDs

• grammatical annotations

• metadata annotations

• corrections

part-of-speech tagging

provides information on word class, inflection and other aspects