Corpus linguistics, applied linguistics & technology in language education
Ben Clarke The ideological representation of benefit claimants in UK print media 2010 – 2014 2.3 M corpus benefits clsimant(s) search criteria Adjectival constructions Adjective lemmas are ranked hard number 40 tough number 53 enTenTen13 score Tough on is significant in the corpus Tough patterns Benefit claimants: scroungers tougher conditions, curbs on Prepositions and … Read more
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Through the Corpora List :::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::: Summer Schools in Corpus Linguistics / Statistics for Corpus Linguistics http://ucrel.lancs.ac.uk/summerschool Lancaster University, UK – 14th to 17th July 2015 Since 2010, Lancaster University has run a highly successful series of free-to attend summer training events. In 2015, we will for the first time be running two corpus linguistics events in … Read more
Lexicoder is a Java-based, multi-platform software for automated content analysis of text. Lexicoder was developed by Lori Young and Stuart Soroka, and programmed by Mark Daku (initially at McGill University, and now at Penn, Michigan, and McGill respectively). The current version of the software (2.0) is freely available – for academic use only. Additions and … Read more
The 1st International Workshop on Natural Language Processing for Informal Text (NLPIT 2015) In conjunction with The International Conference on Web Engineering(ICWE 2015) June 23, 2015, Rotterdam, The Netherlands http://wwwhome.cs.utwente.nl/~badiehm/nlpit2015/ Overview The rapid growth of Internet usage in the last two decades adds new challenges to understand the informal user generated content (UGC) on the … Read more
Ruth Breeze Ideology in corporate language: discourse analysis using Wmatrix3 2013 Annual Reports from leading companies (16) in financial services, mining, food and pharmaceutical Parts: first part, non technical, discursive, visually interesting Reference corpus: 1st BNC Sampler Business & BNC Informative texts but then only BNC Business Use of semantic categories Three case studies: size … Read more