<div>Dear Alex,</div>
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<div>you say<br clear="all"><span lang="EN-GB" style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: Arial">> </span><span lang="EN-GB" style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: Arial"> Is there really so little out there? Why? </span><br>
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<div>I think the reason is simple: Concordances are too tough for learners.</div>
<div>So DDL has not taken off.  After 20 years, it remains a tiny minority interest.<br></div>
<div>Our response is to select corpus sentences according to readability.  </div>
<div>The beta version of the Sketch Engine now has an option to sort concordances </div>
<div>"best first", from a learner's point of view, and we are working on other ways of </div>
<div>using corpora in language learning in which we only show </div>
<div>users sentences which they are likely to be able to read and understand.</div>
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<div>Adam</div>
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<div class="gmail_quote">2008/4/15 Alex Boulton <<a href="mailto:Alex.Boulton@univ-nancy2.fr" target="_blank">Alex.Boulton@univ-nancy2.fr</a>>:<br>
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<p><span lang="EN-GB" style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: Arial"><br>I recently requested information on any <b>published materials</b> or <b>on-line materials</b></span></p></div></blockquote>
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<p><span lang="EN-GB" style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: Arial"><span></span>adopting a data-driven learning approach. My thanks to the following for their replies:</span></p>
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<li><span lang="EN-GB" style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: Arial">Adam Turner </span></li>
<li><span lang="EN-GB" style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: Arial">Chris Tribble </span></li>
<li><span lang="EN-GB" style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: Arial">Mike Barlow</span></li>
<li><span style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: Arial">Brett Reynolds</span></li>
<li><span lang="EN-GB" style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: Arial">Stéphanie O'Riordan</span></li>
<li><span lang="EN-GB" style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: Arial">Antoinette Renouf</span></li>
<li><span lang="EN-GB" style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: Arial">James Thomas</span></li>
<li><span lang="EN-GB" style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: Arial">Linda Bawcom</span></li>
<li><span lang="EN-GB" style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: Arial">Marcia Veirano Pinto</span></li>
<li><span lang="EN-GB" style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: Arial">Przemek Kaszubski</span></li>
<li><span lang="EN-GB" style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: Arial">Simon Smith</span></li>
<li><span lang="EN-GB" style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: Arial">John Milton</span></li></ul>
<p><span lang="EN-GB" style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: Arial">Unfortunately (if unsurprisingly), there were no real additions to the publications</span></p></div></blockquote>
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<p><span lang="EN-GB" style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: Arial"><span></span>I listed in the original mail. Is there really so little out there? Why?</span></p></div></blockquote>
<div>...</div></div><br>-- <br>================================================<br>Adam Kilgarriff <a href="http://www.kilgarriff.co.uk/" target="_blank">http://www.kilgarriff.co.uk</a> <br>Lexical Computing Ltd <a href="http://www.sketchengine.co.uk/" target="_blank">http://www.sketchengine.co.uk</a><br>
Lexicography MasterClass Ltd <a href="http://www.lexmasterclass.com/" target="_blank">http://www.lexmasterclass.com</a><br>Universities of Leeds and Sussex <a href="mailto:adam@lexmasterclass.com" target="_blank">adam@lexmasterclass.com</a><br>
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