Susan Hockey, University of Alberta

Web pages prepared for a workshop given at the North American Symposium on Corpora in Linguistics and Language Teaching, University of Michigan, Thursday 20 May 1999, 9am - 12pm.

Why work with corpora? (notes)

Acquiring and/or creating corpora

• Sources of corpora (descriptions, links etc)
• Some existing corpora (notes)
• Corpus design - example of the BNC (notes)
• Entering and encoding the corpus (notes) (examples: COCOA, fixed field, SGML (BNC))
• Metadata (notes)

Analysis tools

• Word frequencies and concordances (notes): examples
• Collocations (notes): example
• Word class tagging and lexical resources (notes)

Selected bibliography and links

Page created by Susan Hockey on 10 May 1999

At the request of the symposium organizers and participants, this web site will remain accessible. Please send notices of any amendments and omissions to Susan Hockey.