(Week 5) Using corpus analysis software to analyze specialized texts

From I studied and read about “Using corpus analysis software to analyze specialized texts” I can summarize the knowledge as follow:

💬 What is a corpus? 💬

A corpus can be generally defined as a collection of naturally-occurring texts in a computer-readable format which can be retrieved and analyzed using corpus analysis software.

👉 Sources of language corpora 👈

We can subscribe to a large corpus provider such as the British National Corpus (BNC) or use web concordancing (for instance http://corpus.leeds.ac.uk, http://corpus.byu.edu/) or compile own corpora and analyse data using corpus analysis software like ‘Antconc’ , ‘Wordsmith’ or ‘Paraconc’.

💝 Designing a specialized corpus 💝

We have to designing a specialized corpus as follow:

- Corpus size

- Text extracts vs. full texts

- Number of texts

- Medium

- Subject and text type

- Other considerations

💥Example: my specialized corpus profile

Size	50072 words
Source of corpus data	www.wikipedia.com www.traveltalkmag.com www.visitlondon.com
Number of texts	148 texts
Medium	Written
Subject	England country and travel in England
Text type	New article
Authorship
Language	Texts written in English mostly by native speaker
Publication date	Recent texts (Retrieved in August 2018)

👊 Analyzing Specialized Corpus 👊

We have to analyzing specialized corpus from these topics as follow:

- Terminologies and collocation

- Local grammar

- Style

- Content knowledge