Course: Corpus Linguistics: Method, Analysis, Interpretation

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 …

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 …

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 …

Now you can try working with the Words tool in #LancsBox yourself. If you haven’t done this already, download, extract and run #LancsBox [more info]. Load the LOB and the …

#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 …

Now you can try searching for collocations in #LancsBox yourself. If you haven’t done this already, download, install and run #LancsBox [more info]. Load the LOB corpus into #LancsBox [more …

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 …

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 …

Now you can try uploading and searching corpora in #LancsBox yourself. If you haven’t done this already, download, extract and run #LancsBox [more info]. Load the LOB corpus into #LancsBox …

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 …

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 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 …

The GraphColl tool in #LancsBox identifies collocations and displays them in a table and as a collocation graph or network. It can be used, for example, to: Find the collocates …

This presentation is an optional activity. How do we create spoken language corpora? Ruth Avon, who specialises in audio transcription of data for corpus linguistic analysis, discusses the joys and …

As of September 2022, #LancsBox X is available for download with the KWIC tool only. The full version will be available by the end of 2022.