Week 3: Learning Summary

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)