This article reviews and discusses four somewhat contentious issues in the application of
corpus linguistics to pedagogy, ESP in particular. Corpus linguistic techniques have been …

Question Difficulty Estimation from Text (QDET) is the application of Natural Language
Processing techniques to the estimation of a value, either numerical or categorical, which …

This chapter discusses methodological issues relating to keyness analysis, and addresses a
number of interconnected themes. It offers awareness of relevant methodological choices …

This paper introduces the Spoken British National Corpus 2014, an 11.5-million-word
corpus of orthographically transcribed conversations among L1 speakers of British English …

Corpus linguistics is the study of language data on a large scale-the computer-aided
analysis of very extensive collections of transcribed utterances or written texts. This textbook …

CQPweb is a new web-based corpus analysis system, intended to address the conflicting
requirements for usability and power in corpus analysis software. To do this, its user …

A lively hands-on introduction to the use of electronic corpora in the description and analysis
of English The second edition of this successful text provides an ideal introduction for …

Corpus Workbench (CWB) is a widely-used architecture for corpus analysis, originally
designed at the IMS, University of Stuttgart (Christ 1994). It consists of a set of tools for …

The idea for this textbook emerged when Sandra was teaching corpus linguistics to
linguistics and computational linguistics students at Indiana University. One of the goals of …

Corpus Linguistics for Pragmatics provides a practical and comprehensive introduction to
the growing field of corpus pragmatics. Taking a hands-on approach to showcase the …