Text Corpora and Corpus Linguistics
Introduction
Currently updating this site -- Aug 10, 2006. If you wish to make suggestions or post topics, go to athel.com/bb.
Just getting started with corpora and concordancing? Check the intro guide.
News
Developing
Linguistic Corpora:
a Guide to Good Practice
Edited by Martin Wynne. This book is available online or as a
printed
book. Contents: Preface
Martin Wynne (AHDS Literature, Languages and Linguistics,
University of Oxford, UK). Chapter
1, Corpus and Text: Basic
Principles John Sinclair (Tuscan Word Centre). Chapter
2 Adding Linguistic Annotation
Geoffrey Leech (Lancaster University). Chapter
3
Metadata for Corpus Work
Lou Burnard (University of Oxford). Chapter
4
Character Encoding in Corpus Construction
Anthony McEnery and Richard Xiao (Lancaster
University).
Chapter
5
Spoken Language Corpora
Paul Thompson (University of Reading).
Chapter
6
Archiving, Distribution and Preservation
Martin Wynne (University of Oxford).
Appendix
to chapter one: How to make a corpus
John Sinclair (Tuscan Word Centre). Bibliography
About this site
This site was originally a Corpus Linguistics site at Rice University and consisted of a long list of links. A lot has changed over the last decade and a makeover is long overdue. Looking at the remnants of the older site, I am struck by how much has changed over the last decade.
