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10/04/2023 Alannah Fitzgerald
Writing with Open Tools
(Part One)
http://www.flickr.com/photos/mikekline/265954619/
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Introducing Corpus LinguisticsLexical knowledge: collocations, derivatives, registerThe Flexible Language Acquisition Project (FLAX)The British National Corpus (BNC)The LextutorThe Academic Wordlist (AWL) EAP practice resources
Overview (part one)
Intro to corpus linguistics
Let’s start with three questions about English:
1. What is the meaning of goalless?2. How is the word shall used in present-day
British English? Think of some examples.3. Which is more commonly expressed in
everyday English?a. “I was a little disappointed…”b. “I was very disappointed…”
Adapted from Hoffmann et al., 2008
British National Corpus
http://www.natcorp.ox.ac.uk/
Focus on representation
The British National Corpus (BNC)100 million-word static corpus 1978-1992
Spoken (10%); Written (90%); Domain representation
BNCweb concordancer – free download
http://bncweb.info/
BNC header information
http://flax.nzdl.org/greenstone3/flax?a=fp&sa=home
Focus on automation
The Flexible Language Acquisition Project (FLAX)Web n-gram corpora generated and supplied by 2006 Google web dump
500,000 words and 380 million five-gramsGALL - Google Assisted Language Learning
(Chinnery, 2008; Shei, 2008)
‘Goalless’ keyword search in FLAX
http://flax2.nzdl.org/greenstone3/flax?
Distribution of shall I/we in the spoken component of the BNC
Distribution of I/we shall in the spoken component of the BNC
FLAX - Samples retrieved for I was a little disappointed
BNC - Samples retrieved for I was a little disappointed
FLAX Web Collocations Collection Search (http://flax2.nzdl.org/greenstone3/flax?a=p&sa=home&module=)
BNC – Samples retrieved for I was very disappointed
FLAX vs BNC?
• Limitations with representativeness Identifying register on the Web is difficult Successful corpora are based on domains,
genres, collections of document types The web is a “dirty corpus” Kilgariff &
Grefenstette (2003, p. 342)
FLAX cleaned by 30% using BNC wordlist Linked externally to BNC, Yahoo
Complementary sources, both with limitations
Google’s terms of services
“You agree not to access (or attempt to access) any of the Services by any means other than through the interface that is provided by Google, unless you have been specifically allowed to do so in a separate agreement with Google.”
http:www.google.com/accounts/TOS Clause 5.3
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Typical lexical errors
a. He’s very humorous. He’s always doing jokes.
b. We conversated for almost one hour.
c. …and compromise, the issue was resolved in a jiffy.
telling
collocation
conversed
word families / derivatives
without delay
register
http://flax.nzdl.org/greenstone3/flax?a=fp&sa=home
OSS Mozilla
http://www.flickr.com/photos/hindrik/2586245939/
21 FLAX Web Pronoun Phrases Collection Search (http://flax2.nzdl.org/greenstone3/flax?a=p&sa=home&module=)
22FLAX Web Pronoun Phrases Collection Search (http://flax2.nzdl.org/greenstone3/flax?a=p&sa=home&module=)
Noticing Text Types – Issues of Register and Genre
23FLAX Web Pronoun Phrases Collection Search (http://flax2.nzdl.org/greenstone3/flax?a=p&sa=home&module=)
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Web Pronouns Phrases OER
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ns4nXsZQmUA
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Kibbitzers (Tim John’s EAP pages)
http://www.lexically.net/TimJohns/Kibbitzer/timeap3.
htm
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Web Collocations (fact vs idea)
http://flax2.nzdl.org/greenstone3/flax?a=g&rt=r&sa=CollocationSearch&s=CollocationTypes&s1.wordClass=n&c=collodb&s1.query=&s1.multiple=
on
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Web Collocations (fact vs idea)
Compleat Lexical Tutor (Tom Cobb)
http://www.lextutor.ca/
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Web Collocations OERhttp://www.lextutor.ca/vp/
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iyZgZhHMovI
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AWL Exercises (Nottingham)
http://www.nottingham.ac.uk/~alzsh3/acvocab/index.htm
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UEFAP (Andy Gillett)
http://www.uefap.com/index.htm
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Specific EAP vocab (UEFAP)
http://www.uefap.com/vocab/vocfram.htm
FLAX User guides & demos
FLAX Web Collocations & Phrases Excercises (by Shaoqun Wu http://www.cs.waikato.ac.nz/~shaoqun/tmp/instruction.html)
Speaking & Listening OER for EAP
http://openspires.oucs.ox.ac.uk/crunch/
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Web Phrases OER
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n67FBqBFm6I
36 FLAX Web Phrases Collection Search (http://flax2.nzdl.org/greenstone3/flax?a=p&sa=home&module=)
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• Samples of your own writing – soft copy• Build your own corpus – collect ten
academic articles in your discipline• Writing analysis tools• Specific academic word lists
Preparation (part two)