[Corpora-List] New online search interface for MICASE

[Annelie Adel]

Dear All,

The Michigan Corpus of Academic Spoken English (MICASE) is a 
1.8-million-word corpus of transcripts from a range of different speech 
events recorded at the University of Michigan. Since May 2002, the 
English Language Institute at the University of Michigan has made the 
corpus available online through a search interface that some of you may 
be familiar with already. We are now launching a new online search 
interface due to issues of technical obsolescence.

New MICASE online has some improved functionality. For example, the new 
search interface provides simple descriptive statistics for each search 
term, and the search results can be downloaded to the user's own 
computer. The downloadable information includes metadata (such as the 
name of the transcript, the speaker's academic role and gender) in a 
tab-delimited format that can be further examined using a program like 
Microsoft Excel.

To explore MICASE online, simply go to http://micase.umdl.umich.edu 
(this is the same URL as before).

We have also updated the MICASE Manual, which is available on our 
website at http://www.lsa.umich.edu/eli/micase/index.htm (under "About 
MICASE"). The chapter on MICASE online has been updated, with the 
changes described in more detail.

I should also mention that, for users who wish to access the corpus data 
through other means, the corpus transcripts are available in XML format 
for a small fee. The sound files are also available for purchase 
(although some of them are freely accessible online for listening at 
http://www.lsa.umich.edu/eli/micase/Audio/index.htm).

Happy searching!
Annelie

Dr. Annelie Ädel
MICASE/MICUSP director
English Language Institute
University of Michigan