WebCorp: The Web as Corpus

Some of our WebCorp publications

(2002) Kehoe, A. & A. Renouf WebCorp: Applying the Web to Linguistics and Linguistics to the Web. WWW2002 Conference, Honolulu, Hawaii.

(2003) Morley B., A. Renouf & A. Kehoe Linguistic Research with the XML/RDF aware WebCorp Tool WWW2003 Conference, Budapest.

(2003) Renouf, A. 'WebCorp: providing a renewable data source for corpus linguists', in S. Granger & S. Petch-Tyson (eds.) Extending the scope of corpus-based research: new applications, new challenges. Amsterdam: Rodopi.

(2003) Renouf, A., A. Kehoe & D. Mezquiriz ‘The Accidental Corpus: issues involved in extracting linguistic information from the Web’, in Aijmer, Karin & Bengt Altenberg (eds.) Advances in Corpus Linguistics, Amsterdam: Rodopi.

(2005) Renouf, A., A. Kehoe & J. Banerjee The WebCorp Search Engine: a holistic approach to Web text Search, in Electronic Proceedings of CL2005, University of Birmingham.

(2006) Kehoe, A. Diachronic Linguistic Analysis on the Web with WebCorp in Renouf, A. & Kehoe, A. (eds.) The Changing Face of Corpus Linguistics, Amsterdam: Rodopi.

(2006) Morley, B. 'WebCorp: A Tool for Online Linguistic Information Retrieval and Analysis' in A. Renouf & A. Kehoe (eds.) The Changing Face of Corpus Linguistics, Amsterdam: Rodopi.

(2007) Renouf, A., A. Kehoe & J. Banerjee WebCorp: an integrated system for web text search in C. Nesselhauf, M. Hundt & C. Biewer (eds.), Corpus Linguistics and the Web. Amsterdam: Rodopi.

(forthcoming) Renouf, A., A. Kehoe & J. Banerjee ‘Le Moteur de Recherche WebCorp’ in C. Leclère et al (eds) Lingvisticae Investigationes.

(2007) Kehoe, A. & M. Gee New corpora from the web: making web text more 'text-like' in Pahta, P., I. Taavitsainen, T. Nevalainen & J. Tyrkkö (eds.) Towards Multimedia in Corpus Studies, electronic publication, University of Helsinki.

WebCorp Reviews

MED Magazine - Macmillan English Dictionaries (Part 1 - May 2005)

MED Magazine - Macmillan English Dictionaries (Part 2 - June 2005)

Humanising Language Teaching Magazine (May 2000)

Corpora List (May 2 2000)

The Guardian (April 17 2003)

The Independent (April 15 2001)

Some other publications using WebCorp

(2002) Palma, A. & M. Rocha 'O uso anafórico da expressão é mais'. Anais do 5o. CelSul. Curitiba, 2002.

(2002) Gilles-Maurice De Schryver. Web for/as Corpus: A Perspective for the African Languages. Nordic Journal of African Studies 11(2) 266-282.

(2003) Kübler, N. ‘Using WebCorp in the classroom for building specialized dictionaries’ in Aijmer, K. & B. Altenberg (eds.) Advances in Corpus Linguistics, Amsterdam: Rodopi.

(2003) Rocha, M. A. E. 'O conhecimento de colocações no processamento de relações anafóricas'. Cadernos de Estudos Linguísticos, Campinas, v. 45, n. JulDe 2003, p. 119-132, 2003.

(2004) Burrough-Boenisch, J. Righting English that’s gone Dutch (2nd Ed.), Voorburg: Kemper Conseil.

(2004) Fábrica, C. & M. Rocha, Marco ‘Identificação automática e reconhecimento da locução conjuntiva depois que por parte de etiquetadores de classes de palavras’. Bolsa PIBIC, CNPq - UFSC- 2004/2005.

(2004) Rocha, M. A. E. 'Anaphoric demonstratives: dealing with the hard cases', in A. Branco, T. McEnery, R. Mitkov. (eds.). Anaphora Processing: Linguistic, Computational and Cognitive Modelling. Amsterdam, 2004, v. 263, p. 403-428.

(2005) Kurjian, J. Distinguishing similar constructions using a corpus-based investigation

(2005) Lüdeling, A., S. Evert, M. Baroni. Using Web Data for Linguistic Purposes.

(2005) Bergh, G. Min(d)ing English language data on the Web: what can Google tell us? in ICAME Journal 29:25-46.

(2006) Schmied, J. ‘New ways of analysing ESL on the WWW with WebCorp and WebPhraseCount’ in A. Renouf & A. Kehoe (eds.) The Changing Face of Corpus Linguistics, Amsterdam: Rodopi.

(2006) Mair, C. ‘Tracking ongoing grammatical change and recent diversification in present-day standard English: the complementary role of small and large corpora’ in A. Renouf & A. Kehoe (eds.) The Changing Face of Corpus Linguistics, Amsterdam: Rodopi.

If you have published work which uses WebCorp and would like the details to be included on this page (including a link where available) please email rdues @ bcu.ac.uk with publication details.