Corpus Training and Research
On our “Corpus Training and Research” pages you will find information about our recent and ongoing research activities and about the training we provide in corpus analysis. We have also put together a list of links to a selection of online corpora, corpus tools, and corpus projects that we thought you might find useful.
A monthly meeting of faculty, researchers and students providing training in corpus software and analysis and opportunities to present corpus work in progress.
Information about the introductions to corpus linguistics and training in the use of corpus tools we provide to students and visiting scholars to the ELI.
A project to explore the factors involved in the measurement of repeated word sequences in language sampled from a range of corpora.
Using computational corpus analysis and experimental data this project aims to produce an extensive inventory of English Verb Argument constructions and to quantify aspects related to the frequency, semantic coherence and speaker accessibility of verbs in constructions.
MCL researchers are involved in a wide range of research activities in corpus and applied linguistics.
Useful corpora and corpus tools for research, teaching and corpus linguistic analysis.
Information about conferences and colloquia organized by and involving members of the MCL team.
MICASE is a collection of nearly 1.8 million words of transcribed academic speech from the University of Michigan in Ann Arbor.
MICUSP is a collection of around 830 A and A- graded papers (roughly 2.6 million words) from a range of disciplines across four academic divisions.
The JSCC is a collection of transcripts from an academic conference held in honour of John Swales in June 2006, totaling around 100,000 words.
A project that aims to better understand and support the instructional needs of international student writers and Generation 1.5 writers.
Information about our research activities and training we provide in corpus analysis