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Humanities Corpora
Information about Corpus building and investigation
An on-line information pack about corpus investigation techniques for the Humanities
OUTLINE
Unit 1: Introduction
Unit 2: Compiling a corpus
Unit 3: Available corpora and software
Unit 5: Case studies
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
See Unit 1(pdf, 107kb)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
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
See Unit 2 (pdf, 45kb)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
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
See Unit 3 (pdf, 96kb)3.2 Commonly-used corpus investigation software and how to find it
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)
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)