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UCREL Corpus Research Seminar: Adam Kilgarriff

Date: 15 October 2012 Time: 2:00 pm

Venue: Infolab C60b/c

UCREL Corpus Research Seminar Series

Getting to Know Your Corpus

Adam Kilgarriff (Lexical Computing Ltd, visiting research fellow: University of Leeds)

Corpora are not easy to get a handle on. The usual way of getting to grips with text is to read it, but corpora are mostly too big to read (and not designed to be read). We show, with examples, how keyword lists (of one corpus vs: another) are a direct, practical and fascinating way to explore the characteristics of corpora, and of text types. Our method is to classify the top one hundred keywords of corpus1 vs: corpus2, and corpus2 vs: corpus1. This promptly reveals a range of contrasts between all the pairs of corpora we apply it to. We also present improved maths for keywords, and quantitative comparisons between corpora. All the methods discussed (and almost all of the corpora) are available in the Sketch Engine, a leading corpus query tool.

Event website: http://ucrel.lancs.ac.uk/crs

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Who can attend: Anyone

Further information

Organising departments and research centres: Computing and Communications, Linguistics and English Language, University Centre for Computer Corpus Research on Language (UCREL)

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