INTRODUCTION

GLOSSARY

CORPORA

COURSES

BIBLIOGRAPHY

RELATED SITES

SOFTWARE

SEARCH ENGINE

TUTORIAL

COMMENTS

Related Sites

There is a lot of information about corpora and corpus related research available on the World Wide Web. In the list below you can find links to some of the sites where you can find further information about different aspects of corpus linguistics.

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• General Sites
• Project Sites
• Research centra/groups
• Text centra
• Corpus Sites (link to the W3C Corpora page)
• Tools for Corpora (link to the W3C Software page)
• Mailing Lists
• Journals
• Further reading (link to the W3C Bibliography page)
• Misc.

General Sites

• ACLThe Association for Computational Linguistics.
• Michael Barlow's Corpus Linguistics Page
  A comprehensive site with information on Corpus Linguistics and many good links.
• Concordances and Corpora Tutorial. By C. Ball.
• CTI: The Computers in Teaching Initiative Centre for Textual Studies.
• English Language Corpora and Corpus resources
  General list found at the BNC site.
• ICAME The International Computer Archive of Modern English
  collects and distributes "information on English language material available for computer processing and on linguistic research completed or in progress on the material". Holds an archive of English text corpora in machine-readable form.
• LDC The Linguistic Data Consortium (University of Pennsylvania)
  "creates, collects and distributes speech and text databases, lexicons, and other resources for research and development purposes".
• Annotated list of resources on statistical natural language processing and corpus-based computational linguistics. By Christopher Manning.
• Systematic Dictionary of Corpus Linguistics
  "an attempt to group, systemize, define and explain the basic English terms in Corpus linguistics and relative fields"

Project Sites

• AMALGAM
  Automatic Mapping Among Lexico-Grammatical Annotation Models (Leeds).
• Bank of English
• The Canterbury Tales Project
• CETH
  Center for Electronic Texts in the Humanties
• ETAP
  Swedish project creating and annotating a parallel corpus for the recognition of translation equivalents
• Gutenberg Project Home Page.
• ICE - International Corpus of English Project
• MULTEX.
  Multilingual Text Tools and Corpora.
• PEDANT
  Parallel Texts in Göteborg.
• TELRI
  Funded by the European Commission to create a network and supply resources for use within NLP.
• Textcorpora und Erschliessungswerkzeuge (University of Stuttgart).
  "Textual Corpora and Tools for their exploration".

Research centra/groups

• CCALAS
  Centre for Computer Analysis of Language and Speech Leeds.
• CECL The Center for English Corpus Linguistics (Louvain, Belgium). Research on computer learner corpora.
• Cobuild/Bank of English.
• CONTRAST (Contrastive linguistic studies and translation).
  Projects "with one common denominator: the use of bilingual text corpora as empirical material".
• CSLU
  Center for Spoken Language Understanding, Oregon, USA.
• ELSNET
  European Network in Language and Speech.
• TOSCA Research Group
  (University of Nijmegen).
• UCREL
  University Center for Computer Corpus Research on Language.

Corpus Sites

Go to the Corpora Page for a list of corpus sites.

Text centra etc

• ATHENA
  Collections of texts free for non-commercial use. Much by Swiss and French authours.
• Electronic Newsstand
  Magazines of many different kinds (not all available on-line).
• The Electronic Text Center
  University of Virginia.
• The English Server
  Arts and Humanities texts online. Arranged by topics.
• Internet Corpora Index
  "online resources which may serve as corpora for psychologists and other scientists".
• The Internet Public Library
  "the first public library of and for the Internet community"
• KidPub
  Collection of stories written by "kids from all over the planet!"
• On Media Directory
  Search by geographic location or media type.
• Oxford Text Archive (OTA)
  "The OTA collects high-quality scholarly electronic texts and linguistic corpora (and any related resources) of long-term interest and use across the range of humanities disciplines"
• Project Gutenberg
  Extensive collection of whole books. (Click here to find a list of the texts sorted by publishing year, variety of English, category of text, author and title (courtesy of Solveig Granath).
• Project Runeberg
  Center for Nordic literature. About 200 titles available online.
• The Religious and Sacred Texts Page.
  Collection of various sacred and religious texts

  Tools for Corpora

  Go to the Software Page for a list of Tools for Corpora.

  Mailing Lists

  • bnc-discuss
    "used for circulation of information relating to use of the BNC"
  • Corpora
    The electronic mailing list for everyone interested in linguistic corpora.
  • Empiricist:
    To be added send a subscribe message to empiricists-request@unagi.cis.upenn.edu.
  • TALC on Teaching and Language corpora.

  Journals

  • ICAME Journal
  • International Journal of Corpus Linguistics
  • International Quantitative Linguistics Association/Journal of Quantitative Linguistics
  • Computers and the Humanities
  • Machine Translation

  Misc.

  • Internet Grammar of English
    Online course in English grammar with interactive exercises, glossary and index.
  • Wordnet
    is a lexical database for English where the words are organized into synonym sets. Available on-line.