Corpus Training and Research
On these pages you find information about our research activities and training we provide in corpus analysis. We welcome your feedback and questions.
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.
If you are a researcher or visiting scholar at the University of Michigan and would like to learn more about corpus analysis and share findings from your own corpus-based research, you may be interested in joining our Corpus Analysis Group.
The MCL team frequently provide introductions to corpus analysis and training in the use of corpus tools for scholars visiting the ELI and also in writing classes offered in the English Language Institute. There are opportunities for researchers to benefit from these resources through the ELI Visiting Scholar Programs.
This is a project to explore the factors involved in the measurement of repeated word sequences in language sampled from a range of corpora.
The projects on this page provide examples of the kinds of research carried out by the researchers in the MCL team relating to a broad range of issues in academic discourse analysis and corpus and applied linguistics.
Here are a few links to online-searchable corpora, useful corpus tools and corpus projects that might be of interest.
On these pages you will find information about conferences and colloquia organized by and involving members of the MCL team.
MICASE is a corpus of spoken English is a unique collection of a large number of speech events recorded at a large American research university.
MICUSP is a corpus of advanced student writing from 16 disciplines at the University of Michigan.
The JSCC is a small corpus of conference transcripts, made available for the study of academic discourse in specialized contexts.
This project is the first larger scale empirical study of Generation 1.5 writers.
On these pages you find information about our research activities and training we provide in corpus analysis.