[Corpora-List] Looglefight - Just another app

[Ken Litkowski]

  By the self-deprecating manner in which it is presented, I believe has 
vastly understated the potential value of Looglefight. As a tool to help 
non-native English writers, as well as those of us who struggle with the 
latest phraseology, this may be just another app.

Rather than "depend of" vs. "depend on", or "cannot" vs. "can not", how 
about "semantic role" vs. "semantic type" or "categorial grammar" vs. 
"slot grammar". When you go into the corpus lines and then begin to 
explore, not only can you examine alternative phrasings, but you can put 
together a picture of where your research might be situated.

C'mon CLers, wield your magic tools, go beyond the statistics, and know 
thyselves.

     Ken

On 10/1/2010 10:25 AM, Adam Kilgarriff wrote:
> Dear all,
>
> Have you ever been writing an NLP paper and been unsure about the 
> usual turn of phrase for something, in the NLP literature?  Now you 
> can ask - at http://looglefight.com - and be answered!
>
> Looglefight is a web app that lets you input two alternative 
> phrasings, and finds their frequencies in the NLP literature, as 
> represented by the ACL Anthology Reference Corpus (ARC; 45m words of 
> texts drawn from the ACL Anthology; http://acl-arc.comp.nus.edu.sg/). 
>  The ARC have been loaded into the Sketch Engine, which provides the 
> indexing etc.  You are also free to explore the ARC on the 'Open 
> Sketch Engine' site (http://sketchengine.co.uk/open).
>
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