Hi, all! I thought I would pass on some new info I just received. I subscribe to BYU's concordancing site, and I thought you might be interested in the update I just received. It is free to subscribe to, and if you are a faculty member with your name on a website that can verify this status, you can get more access than just being a regular member. For example, I had to provide the url for my IEP's website listing me as faculty.
Happy concordancing!!
There are two new resources for the registered users of the corpora at http://corpus.byu.edu (COCA, COHA, TIME, BYU-BNC, and Spanish and Portuguese corpora):
1. You can now see "concordance" views, which are similar to those from WordSmith and similar programs. The concordance view allows you to sort the Keyword in Context (KWIC) entries alphabetically -- by up to three different words to the left and/or right of the search word. All of the nearby words are also color-coded for part of speech, which allows you to see interesting patterns in the data. To do a concordance search, just select [KWIC] and [ALPHABETICAL] when you do your search. For more information and lots of examples, please see http://corpus.byu.edu/concordances.asp.
2. At http://www.wordfrequency.info/free.asp, you can now download a free word list that contains *500,000* words -- all words that occur at least four times in COCA (the Corpus of Contemporary American English: http://corpus.byu.edu/coca).
And as always, a friendly reminder to those who have published articles based on the corpora. It takes just 40-50 seconds to enter this information after you log into any of the corpora, and your participation would be greatly appreciated.
1. You can now see "concordance" views, which are similar to those from WordSmith and similar programs. The concordance view allows you to sort the Keyword in Context (KWIC) entries alphabetically -- by up to three different words to the left and/or right of the search word. All of the nearby words are also color-coded for part of speech, which allows you to see interesting patterns in the data. To do a concordance search, just select [KWIC] and [ALPHABETICAL] when you do your search. For more information and lots of examples, please see http://corpus.byu.edu/concordances.asp.
2. At http://www.wordfrequency.info/free.asp, you can now download a free word list that contains *500,000* words -- all words that occur at least four times in COCA (the Corpus of Contemporary American English: http://corpus.byu.edu/coca).
And as always, a friendly reminder to those who have published articles based on the corpora. It takes just 40-50 seconds to enter this information after you log into any of the corpora, and your participation would be greatly appreciated.
Denise, thank you for sharing BYU's concordancing site. I'll register as a member and try the concordancer.
ReplyDeleteYes, thanks! I'm definitely going to check it out.
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