Using corpora to develop materials on collocation
Felicity O'Dell
Cambridge, September 2005
As someone who writes materials for Cambridge University Press, I am able to use their enormous English language corpus. This continuously growing corpus is, I believe, the largest in existence with currently around 800 million words of written English and 40 million words of spoken English
It is, of course, an amazing tool and one that pre-1990s' textbook and dictionary writers could only have dreamt of. But how can the ordinary writer, rather than the specialist lexicographer, actually handle this powerful tool?
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http://www.hltmag.co.uk/sep05/idea.htm
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http://www.cambridge.org/elt/docs/Using_corpora.pdf
Felicity O'Dell
Cambridge, September 2005
As someone who writes materials for Cambridge University Press, I am able to use their enormous English language corpus. This continuously growing corpus is, I believe, the largest in existence with currently around 800 million words of written English and 40 million words of spoken English
It is, of course, an amazing tool and one that pre-1990s' textbook and dictionary writers could only have dreamt of. But how can the ordinary writer, rather than the specialist lexicographer, actually handle this powerful tool?
READ MORE HERE...
http://www.hltmag.co.uk/sep05/idea.htm
PDF version
http://www.cambridge.org/elt/docs/Using_corpora.pdf