Recommended on-line tools for corpus linguistics and NLP

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Updated: 2006-02-06

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Online concordancing

> PK's online search facilities and help files:

• PK's Ideas for corpus-based testing

• PK's Query patterns: examples

• PK's online corpus search (concordancer + bigrams + error search; PICLE and comparable EAP/ESP corpora)

> EAP and ESP corpora and small general corpora:

• Mark Davies' BNC-based Variation in English Words and Phrases

• <NEW !> The HongKong PolyU English Department Language Bank (choose discipline, language, native/learner written/spoken corpus type)

• <NEW !> Index of HongKong PolyU's corpora (e.g. Linguistics; also applied linguistics dissertations divided into Intros, Reviews and Conclusions; MicroConcord Corpus Collections, and many more)

• MICASE (Michigan corpus of spoken academic US English; with associated audio files)

• <NEW !> John Milton's Word Neighbors (compare word sequences across a variety of corpora + links to online dictionarie and thesauruses; also integrated with MarkMyWords and CheckMyWords)

• Web Concordancer: CLT, VLC (LOB, Brown, newspaper, pedagogic corpora, learner corpora)

• Online KWIC Concordancer: 1. BLC; 2. Bigram Plus (Business Letter Corpus and more)

> Large general corpora:

• Mark Davies' BNC-based Variation in English Words and Phrases

• <NEW !> Pete Whitelock's Just the Word (check and group general English collocations; also integrated with MarkMyWords and CheckMyWords)

• BNC World – simple search (Extended info on search patterns)[BNC Users Ref Guide]

• BNC World – full search (IFA LAN / IFA users only: contact me if necessary) [SARA Manual] [Annotation info]

• Cobuild Concordance and Collocations Sampler [10-Step Intro – by James Thomas]

• Polish: 1. IPI PAN; 2. PWN; 3. PELCRA PNC (test version)

• Other languages: KWICionary (currently German only, with English potentially to be added)

> The Web as corpus:

• Web & website(s) as corpus: 1. WebCorp; 2. WebConc; 3. cf. KwiCFinder; 4. <NEW !> Leeds CQP ("Internet corpora")

• Webpage(s) as corpus: 1. TurboLingo; 2. WordList Generator (WebCorp)

• GlossaNet (free linguistic survey of on-line newspapers)

> Advanced linguistic search engines:

• Phrases in English (n-grams, phrase-frames and POS-grams from the BNC)

• Penn Treebank Online

• TigerSearch

• The Sketch Engine and WordSketches

• Linguist's Search Engine

• Retrieve Collocation by Exemplar (Dekang Lin's demo)

• Cross Document Structure Theory Bank

> Literary concordancing:

• The Web Concordances

Corpus- and web-based lexical research findings

• Neologisms in journalistic text (the Independent)

• Rzeczpospolita and PWN: Słowa Tygodnia

• The US Election 2004 Web Monitor

• The Word Spy (not corpus-driven but web-informed lexpionage)

   

WebCALL:

Corpus-informed:

• Compleat Lexical Tutor: CLT

• Virtual Language Centre: VLC

• <NEW !> MarkMyWords and CheckMyWords (for writing teachers and students; beta test versions; not always available)

• Web-based Interactive Language Learning (IWiLL) and IWiLL Collocation Explorer

• TeleNex (Sampler only) (Resource for English Teachers in Hong Kong; incl. Pattern Finder concordancer)

• Tim John's Kibbitzer pages (EAP writing students' problems solved with concordance data)

• MICASE Kibbitzer (spoken EAP language explained with corpus data – lexical, syntactic or discoursal)

Other (e.g. CMC): 

• Nicenet (Internet Classroom Assistant) (web-based course management system)

• QuizStar (create online quizzes, incl. multiple-answer multiple choice)

• 4shared.com (user-friendly file sharing; commercial)

Online text analysis

• Tom Cobb's CLT VocabProfile

Statistical tools

• Web Site for Statistical Computation (Richard Lowry's online book and tools)

• Web Chi-square calculator

• Log-likelihood calculator

• T-Score, Mutual Information and Observed-Expected Calculator

• Statistics for Vocab Research

• Cobuild Concordance and Collocations Sampler [t-score, MI]

On-line (demo) text/sentence annotation

• Link grammar parser

• POS tagger generator based on Support Vector Machines

Electronic lexica

• WordNet (also integrated with CLT concordancers)

• Net Dictionary (an adaptation of WordNet, with TTS support, also intergrated with the VLC concordancers)

• Voycabulary (makes the words on any webpage into links so you can look them up with just a click)

• Wordcount (visual frequency list – illustrates the Zipfian distribution)

MT

• Translatica

TTS

• Edict speech engines that make your web pages speak

More?

• The list at Stanford.edu

• David Lee's Bookmarks for Corpus-based Linguists

Last update: 2006-02-06
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