Corpora: corpus linguistics course

[Anke Lüdeling]

Dear Ute (and Beatrice and list-members),

if you want to work on German in your corpus class: there is a very nice
tool for tagging and morphological analysis called MORPHY which you
could use. I like it a lot for teaching purposes because it is easy to
understand and to use - you can change a number of parameters and
directly see the consequences. Another bonus is that the documentation
on MORPHY is very well-written. The two texts given below are so clear
that students will be able to understand it without too much prior
knowledge.
MORPHY can be downloaded from
http://www-psycho.uni-paderborn.de/lezius
The documentation can be downloaded from
http://www.ims.uni-stuttgart.de/~lezius
For students I would especially recommend Rapp and Lezius (2001) and
Lezius, Rapp & Wettler (1998).

If you are still looking for (short) research papers, look at the
proceedings of the Corpus Linguistics Conference in Lancaster, 2001:
there are a number of very interesting topics.

Since I also have to teach corpus linguistics I am very interested in
any other replys you receive.

Best wishes,
Anke
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Dr. Anke Lüdeling
Institut für Kognitionswissenschaft, Universität Osnabrück
Katharinenstr. 24, 49069 Osnabrück, Germany
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