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To be able to use corpora sucessfully in linguistic study or research there are
some areas that you may want to look into.
- The corpus
The kind of corpus you use and the kind of texts included in it are factors
that affect what results you get. Read more about
- The tools
There are a number of tools (computer programs) available to use with
corpora.
The basic functions are usually to search the corpus and display the hits, with
different options for what kinds of searches are possible to make and of how the
hits can be displayed. For a presentation of what corpus handling tools can do,
click HERE (link to be added). For a list of software to use with
corpora,
use this
link.
- The know-how
It is not difficult to search a corpus and find examples of various kinds
once you know how to use your tool. In the
tutorial you
are introduced to the W3-Corpora search engine and shown how you can use it on various
corpora for a number of research tasks. The illustrations and comments will
provide you with examples on the kind of questions that are useful to ask when
you are working with corpora.
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