Synonyms Thesaurus with Antonyms Shakespeare corpus The source texts came from Online Library of Liberty ( Their original source is the OUP edition of 1916. You get 37 plays, plus all the speeches of all the characters. Ie. you get the whole play Hamlet, plus separately all the speeches of Prince Hamlet, all the speeches of Horatio, etc. All the files are saved in 16-bit Unicode. The plays are in the root of 3 folders (comedies, historical, tragedies) as appropriate. Mike Scott mike (at) lexically.net Swag Q From Daryl Sawatzky: Today the word swag is used by radio announcers to describe free advertising products and prize give-aways. I thought it was a relatively new use for a word that previously described a type of lamp. Today however, I saw it again in a book written by C S Lewis in 1958: ‘Some young hooligans...had already sold the swag, and some had previous convictions against them’. Would you have any insight into the origins of this word? A Swag has a surprising number of meanings. It looks as though all these can be traced back to a word imported into Middle English from Scandinavian svagga, to sway (in fact, it’s the origin of sway as well). Originally, a thief’s swag was a bag of stolen clothes or the like. However, there’s some suggestion there was another word involved, also Scandinavian, the one that led to a citation for swag in the Oxford English Dictionary from 1303. World Wide Words is copyright © Michael Quinion, 1996–.
Acronym Finder BASE (British Academic Spoken English) and BASE Plus Collections Overview of BASE The British Academic Spoken English (BASE) project took place at the Universities of Warwick and Reading between 2000–2005, under the directorship of Hilary Nesi (Warwick) , with Paul Thompson (Reading). Natalie Snodgrass and Sarah Creer were employed as research assistants and Tim Kelly was video producer of the project. Lou Burnard (Oxford University) and Adam Kilgarriff (Lexicography MasterClass Ltd) acted as consultants. The BASE Corpus consists of 160 lectures and 40 seminars recorded in a variety of departments (video-recorded at the University of Warwick and audio-recorded at the University of Reading). The corpus has been deposited in the Oxford Text Archive and is catalogued by the Arts and Humanities Data Service. Funding The early stages of corpus development were assisted by funding from the Universities of Warwick and Reading , BALEAP, EURALEX, and The British Academy (2000-2001, Grant reference: SG 30284). Overview of BASE Plus i. ii. iii. iv. v.
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English to French, Italian, German & Spanish Dictionary Corpora, Collections, Data Archives 1. British National Corpus (BNC) [100m wds; 1990s British English, spoken & written]: There are many different web sites giving free (but limited) access to the corpus--limited due to copyright: i.e. you cannot expand the concordance context to read more of the surrounding text, & you cannot read the entire source texts (only snippets). BNCweb: User-friendly, free interface (limited features, if no paid licence). JustTheWord: The most accessible site for non-English-speaking background students (& most pedagogically useful) because it straightaway gives you a list of collocations for your search word/phrase, instead of concordances; results are categorized by POS-based patterns & by approximate sense clusters, & graph bars give an indication of how common each combination is. Results are based on a 80K-word subset of the BNC. 2. · Corpus of Contemporary American English (COCA): [450 m wds; 20 m wds of American Eng each year from 1990-2012.] 3. 4. 5. 6. 7. 8. 9. 10. 11. 12. 13.
[bnc] BNC Simple Search - Using the BNC The BNC Simple Search is a quick and simple way to search the full BNC for a word or a phrase. More complex searches can also be performed, as illustrated further below (these searches can also be done using XAIRA). This service is particularly useful for those who want to see whether a word occurs in the BNC, check the spelling of a word, compare different variants to see which is more frequent and so on. The result of a search is displayed as a list of up to 50 randomly selected instances headed by a note of the total frequency of the search string. A new search for the same string will generate a different set of randomly selected examples. In addition to just finding a word or phrase, the Simple Search service can also be used for more complex queries. For further information on how to make an advanced search using the Simple Search service, see the description of the BNC Corpus Query Language. This service is provided for free by the British Library. Up:
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Micase Online Home Page Michigan Corpus of Academic Spoken English Welcome to our NEW interface to the on-line, searchable part of our collection of transcripts of academic speech events recorded at the University of Michigan. There are currently 152 transcripts (totaling 1,848,364 words) available at this site. Browse MICASE Browse the corpus according to specified speaker and speech attributes, returning quick file references. Search MICASE Search the corpus for words or phrases in specified contexts, returning concordance results with references to files, full utterances, and speakers. For additional information, see one of the following: Explanation of Transcription Conventions | Speech Event and Speaker Categories Search Tips | General Information about MICASE We want to hear from you!
Jergas de habla hispana Enron Email Dataset This dataset was collected and prepared by the CALO Project (A Cognitive Assistant that Learns and Organizes). It contains data from about 150 users, mostly senior management of Enron, organized into folders. The corpus contains a total of about 0.5M messages. This data was originally made public, and posted to the web, by the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission during its investigation. The email dataset was later purchased by Leslie Kaelbling at MIT, and turned out to have a number of integrity problems. I get a number of questions about this corpus each week, which I am unable to answer, mostly because they deal with preparation issues and such that I just don't know about. I am distributing this dataset as a resource for researchers who are interested in improving current email tools, or understanding how email is currently used. March 2, 2004 Version of dataset and the August 21, 2009 Version of dataset are no longer being distributed.