WORLD WIDE WEB ACCESS TO CORPORA

Authors

  • Doug Arnold

Keywords:

Corpus linguistics, WWWCorpora, corpus search techniques

Abstract

For a variety of reason, getting started in corpus linguistics is difficult. The starting point for the W3Corpora project was that providing access to corpora via the World Wide Web offer a way round many of these difficulties. The paper describes the motivation for the project, gives on overview of the W3Corpora web site that was built, and gives artechnical but accessible description of the corpus searching techniques used. Some discussion of similar web sites is provided.

Author Biography

Doug Arnold

Department of Language and Linguistics University of Essex

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