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-What is The Sketch Engine?
-What is a corpus?
-Looking at the BASE and the BAWE corpora.
-How can this help you with ELT?
Today
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What is The Sketch Engine?“A language tool for anyone interested in how words behave”
-A corpus query tool-Can reveal language grammar patterns-Web based-200+ corpora in 60+ languages
-Easy to use
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What is The Sketch Engine?
- Used for lexicography at: OUP, CUP, Collins, Macmillan…
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What is a corpus?
-Corpus: Latin word ‘body’ (Plural corpora)-Large, computer searchable bodies of language.
-BASE: British Academic Spoken English-BAWE: British Academic Written English
-Target varieties-Advanced learners-Hilary Nesi and Paul Thompson
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-Sketch Engine in action…
-Concordancer, Word Sketch, Sketch Diff
-Thesaurus “Automatic collocations dictionary”forbetterenglish.com
-WebBootCaT
How can this help you with ELT?
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Let’s investigate…
- How does the English word enjoy behave?– What meaning(s)?– Grammar?– Collocations?
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Findings…
- 3 million hits– Plenty of evidence
- Lemmatised– enjoy enjoys enjoying enjoyed
- Start with a sample
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Getting more out of our corpus
- Sort – on right context
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Any patterns?
- Recurring themes– Do you spot any?– Same concordance again:
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What do we enjoy?
- breakfast, dining, snack- Object is often ‘meal’- Scroll on down, looking for more patterns
- To see more context, click on word– What is a furry friend?
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Too much data?
- So much data to look through- Can the computer help?
– yes
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Grammar
- We can cluster the objects
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Enjoy
- Views, benefits, meals, rides– Good summary of the things we enjoy
- Scrolling down …
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Patterns
- ing_comp– Strong pattern for enjoy– click on any item in Word Sketch to get more information
• ing_comp: hike
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Thesaurus
- ‘Distributional Thesaurus’- Which word shares most collocates with target word?- What will come top for grandfather?
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“Sketch Diff”
• Verbs they are subject of (middle column)– What grandmothers do– What they both do– What grandfathers do
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What corpora?
- Public ones- Your own
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Public corpora
- Many languages– Show # more corpora button– 220+ corpora– 60+ languages
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Your own corpora
- WebBootCaT: a corpus building tool- Students can work on a topic close to their
hearts- interests, an assignment- www.sketchengine.co.uk
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