Corpus Linguistics

One does not study all of botany by making artificial flowers.  - John Sinclair (1991: 6) -

What is a corpus?
A corpus is a collection of naturally-occurring language text, chosen to characterize a state of variety of a language.
                                                                                                                   - John Sinclair (1991: 171) -

What is Corpus Linguistics?
Corpus linguistics is based on bodies of text as the domain of study and as the source of evidence for linguistic description and argumentation. It has also come to embody methodologies for linguistic description in which quantification of the distribution of linguistic items is part of the research activity.                         - Graeme Kennedy (1998: 7)

The focus of study is on performance rather than competence, and on observation of language in use leading to theory rather than vice versa.                                                                                 - Geoffrey Leech (1992: 107) -

Corpus Links

• The Bank of English (COBUILD)
• The British National Corpus
  • BNCweb: a web-based interface to the BNC
  • The BNC frequency list
• The American National Corpus Project
• The Survey of English Usage at University College London
• A Corpus of late Modern English Prose collected by David Denison (University of Manchester)
• LOCNESS Corpus (Louvain Corpus of Native English Essays)
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Archives & Resources Links

• Statistical Natural Language Processing and Corpus-based Computational Linguistics: An annotated list of resources (Stanford University)
• Corpora and Corpus-based Computational Linguistics: Manuel Barbera's Web Resources Reference Guide
• Project Gutenberg
• Oxford Text Archive
• ICAME(International Computer Archive of Modern and Medieval English)
• EURALEX: Corpora and Dictionaries
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Corpus Research Centre links

• Corpus Research Group at the University of Birmingham
• UCREL at Lancaster University
• TELRI (Trans-European Language Resources Infrastructure, The University of Birmingham)
• Centre for English Corpus Linguistics (ICLE project)
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Conferences & Journals

• International Journal of Corpus Linguistics
• International Journal of Lexicography (Oxford University Press)
• Literary and Linguistic Computing (Oxford Univesity Press)
• TALC1998 (Teaching and Language Corpora 1998)
• Corpus Linguistics 2001
• The 3rd North American Symposium on Corpus Linguistics and Language Teaching (2001)
• Information Extraction meets Corpus Linguistics (Pre-Conference Workshop, LREC 2000)
• ICAME 2003
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Corpus Linguists

• Catherine Ball (Georgetown University)
• Michael Barlow (Rice University)
• James Tang Boyland (Carnegie Mellon University)
• Tim Johns (University of Birmingham)
• Geoffrey Leech (Lancaster University)
• Tony McEnery (Lancaster University)
• Mike Scott (University of Liverpool)
• Andrew Wilson (Lancaster Univeristy)
• Ramesh Krishnamurthy (University of Birmingham, Cobuild)
• Federico Zanettin (Adavnced School of Modern Languages for Interpreters & Translators)
• Gerald Nelson (The University of Hong Kong)
• Sylviane Granger (Université catholique de Louvain (Belgium))
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Courses on Corpus Linguistics

• Introduction to Corpus Linguistics (University of Köln)
• Introudction to Corpus Linguistics (Univerdsity of Essex)
• Applying Corpus Linguistics to Information Retrieval (University of Kansas)
• Computational Corpus Linguistics (University of California, San Diego)
• English Corpus Linguistics (The University of Hong Kong)
• Corpus Linguistics (UMIST)
• Corpus Linguistics (Information and Communications Technology for Language Teachers, ICT4LT)
• Corpus Linguistics (Kyushu University)
• Corpus Linguistics (University of Tübingen)
• Corpus Linguistics (University of Birmingham)
• Corpus Linguistics (Seoul National University)
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Textbooks on Corpus Linguistics

• The BNC Handbook: Exploring the British National Corpus with SARA (1998) - Guy Aston & Lou Burnard -
• Corpora in Applied Linguistics (2002) - Susan Hunston -
• Corpus, Concordance, Collocation (1991) - John Sinclair -
• Corpus Linguistics (1996) -Tony McEnery & Andrew Wilson -
• Corpus Linguistics: Investigating Language Structure and Use (1998) Douglas Biber et al (eds.) -
• English Corpus Linguistics (1991) - Karin Aijmer & Bengt Altenberg (eds.) -
• English Corpus Linguistics: an introduction (2002) -Charles Meyer -
• An Introduction to Corpus Linguistics (1998) - Graeme Kennedy -
• Language and Computers: A Practical Introduction to the Computer Analysis of Language (1996) - Geoff Barnbrook -
• Learner English on Computer (1998) -Sylviane Granger (ed.) -
• Looking Up: an account of the COBUILD Project in lexical computing (1987) - John Sinclair (ed.) -
• Teaching and Language Corpora (1997) - Anne Wichmann et al (eds.) -
• Teaching Collocation: Further Developments in the Lexical Approach (2000) - Michael Lewis (ed.) -
• Using Corpora for Language Research (1996) - Jenny Thomas & Mick Short -
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