Category Archives: Featured tools

ForBetterEnglish

Class-room friendly collocations dictionary:

[Last update: 03/06/2015]

http://forbetterenglish.com/ (superseded by SkELL – Sketch Engine for Language Learning)

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References:

  • Kilgarriff, A. (2014, March). “Corpora in the classroom without scaring the students.” British Council – EnglishAgenda Seminar. Retrieved from http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2APIUxE_i6M [Adam’s talk starts at 1:09:35]
  • Adam Kilgarriff, Miloš Husák, Katy McAdam, Michael Rundell, Pavel Rychlý (2008). “GDEX: Automatically Finding Good Dictionary Examples in a Corpus.” In Elisenda Bernal, Janet DeCesaris (Ed.), Proceedings of the 13th EURALEX International Congress (pp. 425–432). Barcelona, Spain: Institut Universitari de Linguistica Aplicada, Universitat Pompeu Fabra. Retrieved from EURALEX 2008

 

TurnKey virtual appliances

“Turnkey Linux is a virtual appliance library that integrates and polishes the very best open source software into ready to use solutions.”

Excellent base system for CQPweb, ParaVoz, AntWebCorpusFramework, NoSketchEngine, etc.

Source: http://www.turnkeylinux.org/ [accessed: 03/03/2014]

  • LAMP Stack Virtual Appliance (~220MB, linux base system [Debian7], admin through convenient web-gui, accessible from any (local) machine within minutes)

CQPweb

CQPweb

2023-07-23 Developer / Project Head: Andrew Hardie
Purpose/Version/Date web interface to cwb stable: 3.2.43 dev: 3.3.15 [r1848] 31 Dec 2021 / 23 July 2023 Platform/License web-based (also on localhost) open source License: GNU GPLv2+ Price/Availability free Programming Language(s): php, mysql, Perl Key features: SERVER INSTALLATION, MANAGE YOUR OWN CORPORA, WEB INTERFACE, CQP QUERIES Website: CQPweb project page Website: CQPWeb SVN Repository Website: UCREL Lancaster Corpus Server (free access to a lot of corpus resources after registration, including the extended Brown-family of corpora) Website: CQPweb at Beijing Foreign Studies University – Large Number of publicly accessible corpora (username: test, password: test) Website: CQPweb Video Tutorials Website: CQPwebInABox Video Tutorials
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AntWebCorpusFramework

AntWebCorpusFramework

2012-09-25 Developer / Project Head: Laurence Anthony
Purpose/Version/Date Web‐based framework for distribution and analysis of single and parallel corpora 1.0 25 Sep 2012 Platform/License Win/Linux/OSX freeware / open source / available on request at http://www.laurenceanthony.net License: not specified Price/Availability free Programming Language(s): Perl, php Key features: MINIMAL PRE-PROCESSING REQUIRED, SERVER INSTALLATION, (PARALLEL) KWIC, SORTING, HIGHLIGHTING OF KEYWORD IN PARALLEL CORPUS, ACTIVE SENTENCE HIGHLIGHTING, WEBPARANEWS, ANTWEBCONC Website: Laurence Anthony\’s Homepage (EN) Website: AntWCF EN-DE (sample implemenation 2014) Website: WebParaNews EN-JP (sample implemenation 2012) Website: Step-by-step installation guide on Xubuntu 12.04 LTS
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