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#LancsBox X: Wizard

In this video, Vaclav Brezina introduces the powerful Wizard tool in #LancsBox X. It allows batch searching of corpora and running statistical analyses (using integrated R package) on the results. …

How to build an academic language corpus?

The practical toolkit presented in this article is based on extensive research at Lancaster University led by Dr Dana Gablasova in collaboration with partners at six participating universities: Thammasat University …

In conversation with Luke Harding

Professor Vaclav Brezina talks to Luke Harding about language testing and how corpus linguistics can be useful in language testing contexts.

History of Corpus linguistics tools

Corpus linguistics and its history is closely connected with the development of computational technology. With software packages such as #LancsBox X, researchers and practitioners have powerful tools at their disposal …

Build your own corpus: Practical activity 4

Now, you have all the information you need to build your own mini-corpus and process it with #LancsBox. Follow the instructions in Handout 4 (see Downloads below). Then run #LancsBox …

#LancsBox: Text and Whelk

#LancsBox offers an integrated part-of-speech tagger called TreeTagger developed by Helmut Schmid. You can upload texts and corpora in multiple different languages and #LancsBox will take care of the data …

#LancsBox: Words – keywords

The Words tool allows in-depth analysis of frequencies of types, lemmas and POS categories (see the previous step) as well as comparison of corpora using the keywords technique. It can …

Practical activity 2: Answers

Please check the answers provided below (under Downloads). Did you get the same answers in this activity as the answers provided? Did you find the tasks useful? Share your experience …

Practical activity 1: Answers

Please check the answers provided below (under Downloads). Did you get the same answers in this activity as the answers provided? Did you find the tasks useful? Share your experience …

Downloading and running #LancsBox

Part one of an introduction to the #LancsBox program. In this video, Vaclav Brezina tells you how to download and run #LancsBox. There are three simple steps to follow: Download …

#LancsBox: KWIC

Vaclav Brezina shows how to search corpora in #LancsBox and how to produce concordances, lists of all instances of a word, phrase, grammatical structure etc. in the corpus displayed in …

Starting with #LancsBox

#LancsBox is a new generation corpus tool which allows easy analysis and visualization of corpus data. In weeks 1 – 4, you will learn about and try in practice different …