[Corpora-List] Global launch of MICUSP Simple search/browse interface!

[Ute Römer]

Dear all, 

 

I am excited to let you know that the Corpus Linguistics team at the
University of Michigan English Language Institute has just launched MICUSP
Simple -- a free search and browse interface to the new Michigan Corpus of
Upper-level Student Papers (http://micusp.elicorpora.info/). MICUSP consists
of 829 A-graded papers from 16 different disciplines written by students at
senior undergraduate or graduate level. 

 

The URL for MICUSP Simple is http://search-micusp.elicorpora.info/simple/.
The website is optimized for use in Firefox (most features also work fine in
Internet Explorer and Safari but we are still working on some issues with
these and other browsers). 

 

MICUSP Simple was designed with teachers, students and novice corpus users
in mind. In addition to a simple search facility, the interface provides
multiple filtering options to enable easy access to a wide range of sample
writing assignments from a major American research university. It features
interactive graphs, user-friendly navigation, automatic results update in
response to user selection, and full paper view (in HTML and original pdf
format). 

 

MICUSP and MICUSP Simple are very much a team effort and I would like to
acknowledge the support of a number of people who are or were involved in
the project at various stages: 

- John Swales (project conception and advising);

- Rita Simpson-Vlach (project management 2004 to 2006);

- Annelie Ädel (project management 2006 to 2007);

- Matthew Brook O’Donnell and Gregory Garretson (programming and XML schema
design);

- Annelie Ädel, Ute Römer, Stefanie Wulff (submission solicitation); 

- Jesse Sielaff (coordination of electronic paper submission);

- Yung-Hui Chien, Geoffrey Ho, Lucas Jarmin, Emily Lin, Matthew Brook
O'Donnell, Jesse Sielaff, Madison Stuart, Beilei Zhang (XML coding);

- Geoffrey Ho, Lucas Jarmin, Miranda Kozman, Emily Lin, Kelly Lockman, Nasy
Pfanner, Ute Römer, Madison Stuart, Beilei Zhang (paper classification);

- Derek Blancey, Kate Boyd, Lucas Jarmin, Kelly Lockman, Matthew Brook
O'Donnell, Ute Römer, Jesse Sielaff, Madison Stuart, Edwin Teng, Beilei
Zhang (search interface design and implementation);

- Instructors and testing specialists at the University of Michigan English
Language Institute and members of the University of Michigan Corpus Analysis
Group (feedback on paper classification system and search/browse interface
design).

 

If you have comments or questions on MICUSP Simple, please email us at
micusp-help at umich.edu. 

 

And now: Happy searching and browsing!!

Ute and the MICUSP Team

 

 

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Dr. Ute Römer

Director of the Applied Corpus Linguistics Unit

English Language Institute

University of Michigan

Email: uroemer at umich.edu 

Phone: +1 734 763 7133 

Fax: +1 734 763 0369  

http://www.elicorpora.info 

http://www.uteroemer.com 

 

  

Surface mail address: 

Dr. Ute Römer 

University of Michigan 

English Language Institute 

500 E. Washington Street 

Ann Arbor, MI 48104-2028 

USA 

 

 

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