[Corpora-List] RCPCE News: Corpus of Research Articles (CRA)

[Winnie Cheng [ENGL]]

Dear All
 
The Research Centre for Professional Communication in English (RCPCE),
Department of English, The Hong Kong Polytechnic University (PolyU), has
recently completed the compilation of a unique corpus of research
articles from 39 different academic disciplines. The research team, led
by Dr Stephen Evans, collected 20 recent articles from leading journals
in each discipline. The Corpus of Research Articles (CRA) comprises 780
research articlesand totals5,750,332 words. 
 
The CRA is a research resource that is publicly available via the
website of the RCPCE  http://rcpce.engl.polyu.edu.hk/and will prove to
be valuable for academics and students interested in exploring the
features of academic writing. 
 
Users will be able to examine patterns of language use in research
writing in four corpora: (1) the Main Corpus of Research Articles
(MCRA), which contains the entire collection of articles; (2) the
Subcorpus by Disciplines (SCD), which contains the merged texts of 20
articles from each discipline (Electrical Engineering, Rehabilitation
Sciences, Logistics, etc.); (3) the Subcorpus by Fields (SCF), which
divides the 39 disciplines into two broad fields, i.e. Engineering &
Applied Sciences and Humanities & Social Sciences; and (4) the Subcorpus
by Sections (SCS), which enables users to study the linguistic features
of the key sections of empirical research articles (Abstract,
Introduction, Results, etc.). 
 
Other profession-specific corpora at
http://rcpce.engl.polyu.edu.hk/include the Hong Kong Corpus of
Surveying and Construction Engineering (5.7 million words), Hong Kong
Engineering Corpus (9.2 million words), and Hong Kong Financial Services
Corpus (7.3 million words).
The computer software used to search the corpora is ConcGramOnline©
designed and written by Chris Greaves, Senior Project Fellow, The Hong
Kong Polytechnic University.
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Thanks and best regards
Winnie

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Professor Winnie Cheng
Director
Research Centre for Professional Communication in English
AG431, Department of English
The Hong Kong Polytechnic University
Hung Hom
Hong Kong

Tel.: (852) 2766-7558
Fax: (852) 2333-6569
Personal homepage:
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Research Centre for Professional Communication in English website:
http://www.engl.polyu.edu.hk/RCPCE/ 
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