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 …

#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 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 …

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 …

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 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 …

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 …

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 …

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 …

#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 …

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.

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 …