Mark Davies Brigham Young University Provo Utah USA httpcorpusbyuedu GDUFS December 2014 Review of COCA Grammar must V end up V ing get V ed try and V Collocates break ID: 783814
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Using large online corpora for language teaching and learning
Mark Davies
Brigham Young University
Provo, Utah, USA
http://corpus.byu.edu
GDUFS / December 2014
Slide2Review of COCA
Grammar: must V, end up V-
ing
, get V-
ed
, try and V
Collocates:
break
, brooding,
bodice, cause
, visibly
Concordance lines:
budge, diametrically
Synonyms:
strong, utter
/
sheer
Frequency:
a lot of, attitudinal, somewhat
ADJ
Slide3Finding the right word
“potent” argument
“tough” regulations
Synonym chains:
precarious
Slide4www.WordAndPhrase.info
Browse frequency lists (1 – 60,000)
Input and analyze texts
Does much of what COCA does, but all on one page
Frequency (by genre)
Definition
Collocates
Concordance lines
Synonyms
Slide5www.wordAndPhrase.info
Overview
Frequency
(help pages)
Enter texts (saved: fitness, vent cap, fiction)
Academic: frequency (help pages)
Academic: enter texts (saved:
Sci
, Med)
synonyms; e.g. range ~2600:
incorporate, assign, valuable, classic, assumption, barrier
Slide6Sample text 1
China/US climate change accord
http://corpus.byu.edu/texts/
climateChange.html
Keywords
mitigate (all)
greenhouse (concordances)
devastating (synonyms)
ire (draw as collocate)
emissions (collocates; click)
a “considerable” amount (other options)
somewhat [ADJ] (genres)
Slide7Sample text 2
http://www.cbsnews.com/news/comet-philae-lander-survive-we-need-to-be-very-lucky
/
http://corpus.byu.edu/texts/cometLander.html
keywords
forestall, rouse, jumble, illuminated (all)
precisely, secondary (genres)
Slide8Sample text 3
http://www.zdnet.com/android-lollipop-users-warn-of-unusable-devices-after-upgrading-7000035977
/
http://corpus.byu.edu/texts/androidDevices.html
Slide9Sample compositions
#1
various competition
a lot of
no matter what
#4
strongly advocate
for (ok)
advocate that (?)
opportunities
* people
Slide10Sample texts: Wikipedia
fungus
internal combustion engine
Battle of Gettysburg
Yao Ming
Slide11The Wikipedia Corpus
Almost done: December 2014
1.9 billion words, 4.6 million articles
Can quickly and easily create personalized, virtual corpora (e.g. electrical engineering, biology, automobiles, finance, Star Trek)
Search within corpora
Compare across corpora
Create keywords
Slide12The Wikipedia Corpus
Sample: [investment] (words)
Sample:
buddh
* (words)
Sample: biology (titles)
Sample:
audi
porsche
(titles)
Search within corpus: biology (collocates
cell
)
Compare frequency across corpora (
studies
)