Links to corpus linguistics & related sites

No major effort is made to update the links given here. I am working towards publishing my browser bookmarks instead (2005-12-13).

Here are some recommended online and offline tools for corpus work.

For a comprehensive, indexed and annotated set of links, go to David Lee's Bookmarks for Corpus Linguists page.

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• Bibliographies

• Corpus linguistics online courses, tutorial, glossaries

• Major corpus linguistics sites / projects

• Important personal corpora sites

• English corpora websites

• Polish corpora online services

• Other text distributors & sites

• (Developers of) downloadable software for corpus work

• Corpora & language teaching

• Learner corpora

• Corpora-related journals, bib sources, conference sites, web publications

• Websites of corpora events

• Other computational linguistics & language technology links

• Lexical & lexicographic resources

• Online libraries

• Linguistics publishers

• Other online journals & newsletters

• Some more corpora & NLP bookmarks (IE5 export, 2003-10-05)

Corpus linguistics online bibliographies:

• Systematically updated, comprehensive bibliography of (English) corpus linguistics

• ICAME bibliography database

• LLT corpora bibliography (empty? 2005-12-13)

• Learner corpora bibliography (Centre for English Corpus Linguistics, Louvain-la-Neuve)

Corpus linguistics online courses, tutorial, glossaries:

• Info on Web Courses (Finnish site) (2000)

• Hilde Hasselgard's introductory lecture (2001)

• Sabine Reich's Introduction to corpus linguistics - University of Koeln (1998) (still available from the Internet Archive)

• Corpus Linguistics - Web supplement to Wilson & McEnery (1996/2001) Corpus Linguistics book

• Kerstin Fischer's Corpus Linguistics Course (2001) [links + basic research questions for students]

• Catherine N. Ball's page (2001) and Concordances and Corpora Tutorial

• W3-Corpora

• Summer School video lectures 2001

• Rűta Marcinkevičienë's Systematic Dictionary of Corpus Linguistics

Major corpus linguistics sites / projects:

• Corpus Linguistics, University of Birmingham

• The Tuscan Word Centre

• ICAME (International Computer Archive of Modern English; Norwegian Computing Centre for the Humanities - NCCH)

• Corpora List Archive

• UCREL Home Page (UCREL = the University Centre for Computer Corpus Research on Language, Lancaster University)

• PELCRA (Polish-English Language Corpora for Research and Applications)

• English-Norwegian Parallel corpus

Important personal corpora sites:

• David Lee's comprehensive, up-to-date, must-see devoted.to\corpora page

• Michael Barlow's Corpus Linguistics page (Rice University, Texas, USA): corpora/parallel corpora)

• Adam Kilgarriff's homepage (corpling and lexicography, downloadable articles etc)

• Pieter de Haan's WWW page

English corpora websites & online services:

• The British National Corpus (BNC) and its online demo service

• The Bank of English (Collins Cobuild) , its concordancer/collocation sampler and WordbanksOnline demo

• The new ICAME CD-ROM [written/spoken/historical/tagged/parsed collections (Brown, LOB, FLOB, Frown, Kolhapur, ACE, Wellington Corpus, ICE-EA, London-Lund, Lancaster/IBM, COLT, Helsinki, CEEC, Lampeter, ICAMET, POW)]

• Survey of English Usage & ICE corpus

• American National Corpus

• WebCorp - great online Web Concordancer (can also drive Google!)

• The Bergen Corpus of London Teenage Language (COLT)

• CSLU Speech Corpora (Center for Spoken Language Understanding - free corpora & toolkit)

• Lancaster Corpus of Children's Project Writing

• Corpus of Early English Corespondence (CEEC)

• Web concordance of English romantic literature

• MARSEC (The Machine Readable Spoken English Corpus)

• Danko Sipka's Turbo Lingo (will profile any text)

Polish corpora online services:

• PWN corpus 2M-word sampler

• untagged IPI-PAN / OSU corpus (over 13M words, no Polish diacritics)

• Online access to the PICLE corpus (Polish minicorpus to be added soon)

• PELCRA (Polish-English Language Corpora for Research and Applications) (downloadable samples)

Other text distributors & sites:

• ELRA

• LDC (Linguistic Data Consortium)

• www.athel.com (software, corpora CD-ROMs, books for linguists and language teachers)

• Oxford Text Archive

• TELRI

• TRACTOR

• MULTEXT info

• Comet Home Page (Corpus Of Modern English Texts)

• Project Gutenberg (a non-copyright text resource, mostly classic litarature) and Ronald Reck's searchable PG database

• Directory of electronic text centers

• CETH (The Center for Electronic Texts in the Humanities)

• Reuters free archive

• CLR (The Consortium for Lexical Research)

(Developers of ) downloadable software for corpus work:

• Mike Scott's Web (Liverpool University, UK) (WordSmith Tools)

• University of Stuttgart - computational linguistics and corpus exploration (IMS Corpus Workbench / Unix - free)

• Barlow's MonoConc (free demo) & ParaConc (free beta for Windows)

• WinConcord (free concordancer for Win3.x and later)

• ConcApp (free concordancer and vocabulary profiler for Windows)

• KWiCFinder (free Web concord)

• LDC's online collocation tester (MI & T-score) (limited non-member access)

• The TOSCA Research Group for Corpus Linguistics, Nijmegen, Holland (free deep POS tagger for DOS)

• INTEX - free mulltilingual analyser

• UNIX tagger (PC version to appear)

• Xerox Research Centre (text analysis researc: on-line demos of tools for various lgs, incl. Polish)

• A Xerox site with taggers to experiment with (plus articles for downloading)

• Georgetown University Natural Language Processing (including Parser Modularity Demo page)

• Generating taggers/lemmatisers. Maintaining lexica (WordManager)

• Eric Brill's page AND tagger

• SIL Computing resources

• Experimental Part-of-Speech Service (University of Birmingham)

• E-mail part-of speech tagger (University of Leeds)

• A site with state-of-the-art parsers

• Other sites discussing parsers: 1. http://www.cl.cam.ac.uk./ftp/nltools; http://www.sil.org/pcpatr (Summer Institute of Linguistics, Inc.)

Corpora & language teaching:

• Corpora and teaching: John Higgins's homepage

• Tim John's DDL (= data-driven learning) page (University of Birmingham)

• TEACHING AND LANGUAGE CORPORA (TALC96 and others)

• Chris Tribble's page

• Chemnitz Internet Grammar

• The Internet Grammar of English (based on ICE-GB Corpus; University College, London)

Corpora-related journals, bib sources, conference sites, web publications:

• Language Learning & Technology (special volume 5)

• Krajka's IATEFL POLAND COMPUTER SIG JOURNAL (incl. corpora issues)

• HLT Magazine (with Michael Rundell's 'Corpora Ideas')

• International Journal of Corpus Linguistics

• TEACHING AND LANGUAGE CORPORA (TALC'94, 96, 98, 2000) pages

• Corpus Linguistics 2001 Conference (Lancaster 2001)

• CCAAL 2001 (Challenges in Computer-Assisted Applied Linguistics / PLM33, Poznań)

• http://xxx.lanl.gov/cmp-lg/ (papers mainly in computational & mathematical linguistics)

• Literary and Linguistic Computing (OUP, abstracts only)

• Torbjoern Lager's 'A Logical Approach to Computational Corpus Linguistics'

• Excerpts from the book Evolutionary Web Development (Springer London 2001)

• M. Barlow's corpus linguistics bibliographic reference

Websites of selected corpora events:

• ICAME 2002 (Sweden, 22-26 May 2002)

• TALC 2002 (Italy, July 2002)

Other computational linguistics & language technology links:

• IPI PAN: Lingwistyka komputerowa w Polsce (incl. corpora)

• Papers from Fifth Workshop on Computational Natural Language Learning (CoNLL-2001, France)

• Book 'Survey of the State of the Art of Human Language Technology' (1997)

• Zipf's law(s)

• University of Stuttgart - computational linguistics

• Dept. of LANGUAGE AND SPEECH Homepage - Nijmegen, Holland

• Computational Linguistics, Sussex University

• On-Line Proceedings of COLING-94 (Fifteenth International Conference on Computational Linguistics)

• UPenn TreeBank

• Richard Chantrill's page (University of Queensland, Australia)

• D. Eastment's page (language technology)

• On-line machine translation site

• Department of Linguistic Science, University of Reading

• Moby project results (frequency lists)

Lexical & lexicographic resources:

• ELEX dictionary links

• Prof. Sobkowiak's Dictionaries page

• Dictionary utilities for creating and maintaining lexica

• Robert Beard's on-line dictionaries

• WordNet

• EuroWordNet

• Primer on Computational Lexicology (1992) (159k)

• Language Representation Database

• APRIL - Analysis & Prediction of Innovation in the Lexicon

• Oxford English Dictionary on-line

• Lexicom: 2001 (workshop in lexicography and lexical computing)

• BABEL (multi-language database comprising five of the most widely differing Eastern European languages: Bulgarian, Estonian, Hungarian, Polish and Romanian)

Online libraries:

• Biblioteki anglistyczne

• UAM katalogi

• Universite Catholique de Louvan: library

Linguistics publishers:

• John Benjamins Publishing Company

• http://www.longman-elt.com (LONGMAN: catalogue; downloadable teaching materials - also http://www.longman.com/northstar

• http://pearsoneduc.com/linguistics

• http://www.penguinreaders.com/first-wave

• http://www.languages.routledge.com

• Edinburgh University Press: http://www.eup.ed.ac.uk

• Cambridge University Press: http://cup.cam.ac.uk

Other online journals & newsletters:

• Quarterly Newsletter of the Contrastive Grammar Research Group of the University of Gent

• 'Student Journal of Language and Speech'

• Cambridge journals on-line: http://www.journals.cup.org

• OUP journals: http://elt.oupjournals.org

• Continuum books: http://continuumbooks.com

Last update: 2005-12-13