Dear all,
If you are interested in the brand new version of #LancsBox X released on Monday, there is an opportunity to register for a free online training event "LancsBox X for Applied linguistics: A practical introduction for researchers and educators", which will take place this Friday 19 April, 12:00 UK time.
The event is organised by EuroCALL CorpusCALL SIG.
FREE REGISTRATION: https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSexe7PTOb_dRrOYMazwEkbJeygi0-MoS57d...
This workshop will first introduce #LancsBox X, a software package designed for the ease of use in research and pedagogical contexts. It can be used with very large corpora and is therefore suitable for the exploration of general corpora representing a number of different genres/registers as well as specialised corpora. #LancsBox X offers an innovative architecture and user experience, which allows intuitive engagement with existing corpora as well as analysis of users' own data. In the second part of the workshop, we will demonstrate different ways in which #LancsBox X can be employed in language teaching, with particular focus on using British National Corpus 2014 to teach about features of spoken English and genre-related differences in language use. The workshop does not presuppose any technical or statistical knowledge. #LancsBox X can be downloaded for free from https://lancsbox.lancs.ac.uk/. Speakers are Dana Gablasova and Vaclav Brezina.
Abot New #LancsBox X
The ESRC Centre for Corpus Approaches to Social Sciencehttps://cass.lancs.ac.uk/, Lancaster University (CASS) is happy to announce the release of a new version of the free software tool for the analysis of corpora of the size of up to billions of words. #LancsBox X, CASS's flagship software tool available for free, reflects the most recent developments in the field and offers its users a comprehensive solution for the analysis of language data.
The new version is freely downloadable from: https://lancsbox.lancs.ac.uk
New features include:
-n-grams and skip-grams with large corpora
-key n-grams and skip-grams
- new visualizations now including rich word clouds
- tag corpora (pos, headword, semantic category, syntactic dependency etc.) and download them to your computer
- lighting fast complex searches (ADJECTIVE NOUN VERB ADVERB) and table sorting
Read more about these innovations at a CASS blogpost: https://cass.lancs.ac.uk/casss-innovation-programme-new-features-in-lancbox-...
The new version comes with the British National Corpus 2014https://cass.lancs.ac.uk/bnc2014, also developed at CASS, (we recommend deleting and re-downloading the BNC2014 if you have used a previous version).
Also learn about CASS's extensive research programme of corpus methodology and its innovative applications to social science: https://cass.lancs.ac.uk/cass-projects
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