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Linguistic Research: Some Tools of The Trade

This document summarizes several online tools and software for linguistic research and corpus linguistics. It describes the British National Corpus online interface BNCweb, which allows users to search for collocations and word distributions. It also mentions the Compleat Lexical Tutor, corpora available through BYU, and the Voyant Tools suite. Finally, it lists local software options like WordSmith Tools, AntConc, ConcApp, and Xaira for working with corpora on one's own computer.

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Linguistic Research: Some Tools of The Trade

This document summarizes several online tools and software for linguistic research and corpus linguistics. It describes the British National Corpus online interface BNCweb, which allows users to search for collocations and word distributions. It also mentions the Compleat Lexical Tutor, corpora available through BYU, and the Voyant Tools suite. Finally, it lists local software options like WordSmith Tools, AntConc, ConcApp, and Xaira for working with corpora on one's own computer.

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Linguistic research: some tools of the trade

Some online tools

BNCweb:
Online interface to the BNC. Simple to start using, powerful advanced features. Good
for collocations and distribution across parts of corpus.
There are two options for accessing this:
1. A new experimental service from the Oxford e-Research Centre, available at
http://ota.oerc.ox.ac.uk/bncweb-cgi/BNCweb.pl. Use your Oxford University
single sign-on credentials to access it.
A longer-standing inplementation of BNCweb is at Lancaster University, at
http://bncweb.lancs.ac.uk/ (also http://bncweb.info/) (requires registration at
http://bncweb.lancs.ac.uk/bncwebSignup/)

Compleat Lexical Tutor (Lextutor): http://www.lextutor.ca/


Online tool with basic functionality. Use with built-in resources or your own text.

Corpora at BYU (Brigham Young University) : http://corpus.byu.edu/


Interfaces to the BNC, COCA (AmE), historical corpora for British and American
English, Time Magazine plus corpora in Spanish and Portuguese, with frequent
additions. Functions include searching for words and phrases, POS, collocations, and
compare distributions between corpora and across different parts of corpora. Free
registration is necessary to get access to the full functionality.

Voyant Tools (http://voyant-tools.org/):


Online tools to use with your own material, or online texts and some demo texts
available on the site. Wide range of functions, although some key parts still in beta.
Other tools

These can be installed on your local machine and used with your own material

WordSmithTools: http://www.lexically.net/wordsmith/
Possibly the most widely used corpus tool. Use requires a licence which costs around
£50. A free trial version is available. Works with many different languages. It can
hide and ignore certain types of tags, but is not fully XML-aware or able to work very
efficiently with annotations or metadata. Windows only.
AntConc (http://www.antlab.sci.waseda.ac.jp/antconc_index.html):
Very similar to WordSmith but free. Support for many different languages (incl.
Japanese and Chinese). Works on Windows, Mac and Linux.
ConcApp (http://www.edict.biz/pub/concapp/):
Support for different languages in Unicode (including Chinese, Japanese, Thai and
Russian). Free. Windows only.
Xaira (http://www.xaira.org/):
For use with (heavily annotated) material in XML. Text(s) have to be prepared
(indexed) with Xaira Tools before you can start using the concordancer. Works with
different languages. Windows only, and quite tricky to install and use.
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Martin Wynne <martin.wynne@it.ox.ac.uk> and Ylva Berglund Prytz (ylva.berglund@it.ox.ac.uk)

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