Dear Nigel,
Do you know BootCat tools? They allow you to prepare special-language
corpora from web pages automatically. See
http://sslmit.unibo.it/~baroni/bootcat.html
We are currently preparing a web-service version of the tool, so then you
can enter ‘seed’ terms and then produce a corpus in that area by clicking
the “go” button. Public version to follow before long. In the meantime, if
you give me half a dozen relevant architecture terms (single words or multi
words, and selected to avoid picking up non-architecture hits) I’ll make a
small sample corpus and point you to it,
Adam Kilgarriff
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Sent: 14 January 2006 06:20
To: Przemek Kaszubski; Chris Butler
Cc: CORPORA@hd.uib.no
Subject: [Corpora-List] Corpora for EAP: Architecture...?
I realise this is a little specialised - following the responses to Susana -
but does anyone know of a corpus of Architecture texts, complete with
drawings or even spoken commentary.
We have an ESL-medium Architecture programme here at HKU and are looking for
material for a searchable corpus.
We actually have ESL-medium university programmes across the spectrum, and
are looking for corpora across that spectrum, but so far have only really
found - and developed - highly suitable corpora for our Law students.
Any ideas welcome.
Nigel Bruce
At 08:33 PM 1/12/2006, Przemek Kaszubski wrote:
Dear Chris,
Off the top of my head here are a few more links
1. Companion website the book "Working with Specialized Language"
http://www.routledge.com/textbooks/0415236991/links/links.html
2. The PolyU English Department Language Bank
http://langbank.engl.polyu.edu.hk/indexl.html
3. Mark Davies' VIEW service (finely definable registers):
4. Business Letter Corpus:
http://ysomeya.hp.infoseek.co.jp/
I'm sure there is a lot more.
Regards,
Przemek
Chris Butler wrote (2006-01-12 12:35):
Dear list members,
On behalf of Susana Doval, many thanks to the people who provided her with
the following information on corpora for ESP:
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STELLA TAGNIN
Take a look at www.fflch.usp.br/dlm/comet.
Then, on the right hand side, click on CorTec. I think the rest is
self-explanatory.
you can´t access the texts, but can get a wordlist and use the
concordancer.
SERGE SHAROFF
in my view the best option is to collect the corpus you want
automatically using BootCat tools:
http://wacky.sslmit.unibo.it/
Rafa³ L. Górski
How silly my reply might seem, consider using as a corpus hansards of the
Parliament.
http://www.parliament.the-stationery-office.co.uk/pa/ld/ldhansrd.htm
Of course if you want it tagged, you have to do it by yourself, what is bad
news.
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