Using Sketch Engine: some how-to resources

General SKE Youtube Channel Brief overview Creating your corpus and data upload Finding metadata for source documents in the Sketch Engine Concordancer Using the Expert option: ‘Context’ in the Sketch Engine Thinning down your concordance output Using Sketch Difference for lexical disambiguation Taller sobre herramientas de análisis textual: La herramienta Sketch EngineFacultad de Filología, Universidad … Read more

Extracting n word phrases in large texts

This is a summary of resources posted on [Corpora-List] early 2014 CMU-Cambridge Statistical Language Modeling toolkit http://mi.eng.cam.ac.uk/~prc14/toolkit.html Sketch Engine http://www.sketchengine.co.uk/documentation/wiki/SkE/NGrams Lawrence Anthony’s AntConc  http://www.antlab.sci.waseda.ac.jp/software.html kfNgram http://www.kwicfinder.com/kfNgram/kfNgramHelp.html Colibri Software for the extraction of n-grams as well as patterns that are not consecutive (skipgrams). The software is written in C++ for speed and memory efficiency but comes … Read more

Extracting n word phrases in large texts

This is a summary of resources posted on [Corpora-List] early 2014 CMU-Cambridge Statistical Language Modeling toolkit http://mi.eng.cam.ac.uk/~prc14/toolkit.html Sketch Engine http://www.sketchengine.co.uk/documentation/wiki/SkE/NGrams Lawrence Anthony’s AntConc  http://www.antlab.sci.waseda.ac.jp/software.html kfNgram http://www.kwicfinder.com/kfNgram/kfNgramHelp.html Colibri Software for the extraction of n-grams as well as patterns that are not consecutive (skipgrams). The software is written in C++ for speed and memory efficiency but comes … Read more

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