The Corpus Linguistics Workshop and the Vocabulary Research Group are hosting a talk by Dr Laurence Anthony (Waseda University, Japan) on 27 February, entitled 'New Developments in Corpus Tools for Data Collection, Analysis, and Visualization'. The talk will be followed by a small wine reception. If you would like to attend, please contact Lorenzo Mastropierro or Viola Wiegand.
Laurence Anthony is Professor of Educational Technology and Applied Linguistics at the Faculty of Science and Engineering, Waseda University, Japan. His main interests are in corpus linguistics tools development and English for Specific Purposes (ESP) program design and teaching methodologies. He received the National Prize of the Japan Association for English Corpus Studies (JAECS) in 2012 for his work in corpus software tools design. He is the developer of various corpus tools including AntConc, AntWordProfiler, AntMover, EncodeAnt , SarAnt, TagAnt, and VariAnt.
Abstract: 'New Developments in Corpus Tools for Data Collection, Analysis, and Visualization'
In this talk, I will first discuss recent changes made to AntConc that will allow the software to work quicker and more easily with very large, annotated corpora. Next, I will introduce a range of newly developed freeware desktop and web-based parallel corpus tools that enable corpus linguists to easily collect, clean, and standardize corpus data, analyze monolingual and parallel corpora in a variety of ways, and also visualize the results of corpus analyses in the form of tables, dispersion plots, and network graphs. At the end of the talk, I will discuss future directions for corpus research and invite the audience to consider possible tools that might facilitate their own corpus linguistics research.