Humanities Corpora - Information about Corpus building and investigation

[xiaoz]

http://www.humcorp.bham.ac.uk/humcorp/information/corpusintro.html

Humanities Corpora

Information about Corpus building and investigation

An on-line information pack about corpus investigation techniques for the Humanities

OUTLINE
Unit 1: Introduction

1.1 What a corpus is
1.2 What corpus investigation software does
1.3 The sorts of things that a corpus can help you with
1.4 What you need to do corpus work
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See Unit 1(pdf, 107kb)
Unit 2: Compiling a corpus

2.1 Designing a corpus
2.2 Why you need your texts in electronic form
2.3 Issues in keying in texts
2.4 Issues in scanning texts
2.5 Issues in getting texts from the internet
2.6 Issues in compiling a spoken corpus
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See Unit 2 (pdf, 45kb)
Unit 3: Available corpora and software

3.1 Commonly-used reference corpora and how to find them
3.2 Commonly-used corpus investigation software and how to find it
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See Unit 3 (pdf, 96kb)
Unit 5: Case studies

5.1 Compiling a literary corpus
See Unit 5.1 (pdf, 78kb)
5.2 Studying melancholy in a British novel corpus
See Unit 5.2 (pdf, 60kb)
5.3 Corpus Linguistics and communication in Health Care
See Unit 5.3 (pdf, 72kb)
5.4 Multi-modal corpora
See Unit 5.4 (pdf, 74kb)
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[armstrong]

回复: Humanities Corpora - Information about Corpus building and investigation

Mnay thanks,Dr.Xiao.
Happy new year!

 

[asan82]

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好贴当然要顶

 

[steven8810469]

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without unit4?why?

 

[steven8810469]

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no unit 4?maybe the most important part ? try to access,OK?

 

[mayerniu]

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Many thanks for the valuable information which always gives me some inspiration.