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<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 color=navy face=Arial><span style='font-size:
10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:navy'>Dear Nigel,</span></font></p>
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10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:navy'> </span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 color=navy face=Arial><span style='font-size:
10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:navy'>Do you know BootCat tools? They allow you
to prepare special-language corpora from web pages automatically. See <a
href="http://sslmit.unibo.it/~baroni/bootcat.html">http://sslmit.unibo.it/~baroni/bootcat.html</a>
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<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 color=navy face=Arial><span style='font-size:
10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:navy'>We are currently preparing a web-service
version of the tool, so then you can enter ‘seed’ terms and then
produce a corpus in that area by clicking the “go” button. Public
version to follow before long. In the meantime, if you give me half a dozen relevant
architecture terms (single words or multi words, and selected to avoid picking
up non-architecture hits) I’ll make a small sample corpus and point you to
it,</span></font></p>
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10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:navy'> </span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 color=navy face=Arial><span style='font-size:
10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:navy'>Adam Kilgarriff</span></font></p>
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lang=EN-US style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Tahoma'>-----Original
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<b><span style='font-weight:bold'>From:</span></b> owner-corpora@lists.uib.no
[mailto:owner-corpora@lists.uib.no] <b><span style='font-weight:bold'>On Behalf
Of </span></b>Nigel Bruce<br>
<b><span style='font-weight:bold'>Sent:</span></b> </span></font><font size=2 face=Tahoma><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Tahoma'>14
January 2006</span></font><font size=2 face=Tahoma><span lang=EN-US
style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Tahoma'> </span></font><font
size=2 face=Tahoma><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Tahoma'>06:20</span></font><font
size=2 face=Tahoma><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Tahoma'><br>
<b><span style='font-weight:bold'>To:</span></b> Przemek Kaszubski; Chris
Butler<br>
<b><span style='font-weight:bold'>Cc:</span></b> CORPORA@hd.uib.no<br>
<b><span style='font-weight:bold'>Subject:</span></b> [Corpora-List] Corpora
for EAP: Architecture...?</span></font></p>
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face="Times New Roman"><span style='font-size:12.0pt'> </span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:36.0pt'><font size=3
face="Times New Roman"><span style='font-size:12.0pt'>I realise this is a
little specialised - following the responses to Susana - but does anyone know
of a corpus of <b><span style='font-weight:bold'>Architecture </span></b>texts,
complete with drawings or even spoken commentary.<br>
We have an ESL-medium Architecture programme here at HKU and are looking for
material for a searchable corpus.<br>
We actually have ESL-medium university programmes across the spectrum, and are
looking for corpora across that spectrum, but so far have only really found -
and developed - highly suitable corpora for our Law students.<br>
Any ideas welcome.<br>
Nigel Bruce<br>
<br>
At </span></font>08:33 PM 1/12/2006, Przemek Kaszubski wrote:<br>
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<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:36.0pt'><font size=3
face="Times New Roman"><span style='font-size:12.0pt'>Dear Chris,<br>
<br>
Off the top of my head here are a few more links<br>
<br>
1. Companion website the book "Working with Specialized Language"<br>
<br>
<a href="http://www.routledge.com/textbooks/0415236991/links/links.html"
eudora=autourl>http://www.routledge.com/textbooks/0415236991/links/links.html</a><br>
<br>
2. The PolyU English Department Language Bank<br>
<br>
<a href="http://langbank.engl.polyu.edu.hk/indexl.html" eudora=autourl>http://langbank.engl.polyu.edu.hk/indexl.html</a><br>
<br>
3. Mark Davies' VIEW service (finely definable registers):<br>
<br>
<a href="http://view.byu.edu/" eudora=autourl>http://view.byu.edu/</a> <br>
<br>
4. Business Letter Corpus:<br>
<br>
<a href="http://ysomeya.hp.infoseek.co.jp/" eudora=autourl>http://ysomeya.hp.infoseek.co.jp/</a><br>
<br>
<br>
I'm sure there is a lot more.<br>
<br>
Regards,<br>
<br>
Przemek<br>
<br>
<br>
Chris Butler wrote (2006-01-12 </span></font>12:35):<br>
<br>
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face="Times New Roman"><span style='font-size:12.0pt'>Dear list members,<br>
<br>
On behalf of Susana Doval, many thanks to the people who provided her with<br>
the following information on corpora for ESP:<br>
<br>
**********<br>
STELLA TAGNIN<br>
Take a look at <a href="http://www.fflch.usp.br/dlm/comet" eudora=autourl>www.fflch.usp.br/dlm/comet</a>.<br>
<br>
Then, on the right hand side, click on CorTec. I think the rest is<br>
self-explanatory.<br>
<br>
you can´t access the texts, but can get a wordlist and use the concordancer.<br>
<br>
SERGE SHAROFF<br>
in my view the best option is to collect the corpus you want<br>
automatically using BootCat tools:<br>
<a href="http://wacky.sslmit.unibo.it/" eudora=autourl>http://wacky.sslmit.unibo.it/</a><br>
<br>
Rafa³ L. Górski<br>
How silly my reply might seem, consider using as a corpus hansards of the<br>
Parliament.<br>
<a href="http://www.parliament.the-stationery-office.co.uk/pa/ld/ldhansrd.htm"
eudora=autourl>http://www.parliament.the-stationery-office.co.uk/pa/ld/ldhansrd.htm</a>
<br>
Of course if you want it tagged, you have to do it by yourself, what is bad<br>
news.<br>
********<br>
<br>
Chris Butler<br>
Honorary Professor, </span></font>University of Wales Swansea, UK<br>
<br>
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<br>
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