Corpus linguistics' approach to the analysis of language data is often highly focused on the use ... more Corpus linguistics' approach to the analysis of language data is often highly focused on the use of statistics to generate research results. This is exceptionally useful in terms of replicability of research, however results are not always completely useful for the target audience. Many corpus linguistics resources discuss the importance of intuition in the interpretation of findings. Despite this, research is still often highly focused on results which appear to be purely empirically driven, when in fact the process of analysis and interpretation may be highly intuitive but be written to appear straightforwardly empirical. This article will discuss the author's process of moving from a purely statistical approach to corpus linguistics to a more blended intuitive-empirical approach throughout the analysis and interpretation of corpus data. While this article will focus on research performed in an ESP context, the content should be generalizable to much of corpus research.
This paper presents a description of the design and imple-mentation of a computerized morphologic... more This paper presents a description of the design and imple-mentation of a computerized morphological segmentation tool for Cayuga nouns. Speakers of polysynthetic First Nations languages are presented with an array of difficulties when it comes to word segmentation and dictionary access. This pro-gram demonstrates that finite-state techniques are applicable to these morphologically complex languages and are worth further study and development in order to create useful tools for speakers and learners of thesis languages. 1 Introduction As linguists we often produce theoretical work that is not necessarily of immediate use to people outside of our circle. We also produce work with prac-tical applications in the form of dictionaries, grammars and so forth. For endan-gered languages with small numbers of speakers, it is of paramount importance to produce descriptions that can be used in teaching new speakers. The theme of this year's conference was that of "interfaces", so ...
This paper presents a detailed description of the design and implementation of a computerized mor... more This paper presents a detailed description of the design and implementation of a computerized morphological segmentation tool for Cayuga nouns. Speakers of polysynthetic First Nations languages are presented with an array of difficulties when it comes to word segmentation and dictionary access. This program demonstrates that finite-state techniques are applicable to these morphologically complex languages and are worth further study and development in order to create useful tools for speakers and learners of thesis languages.
Corpus linguistics’ approach to the analysis of language data is often highly focused on the use ... more Corpus linguistics’ approach to the analysis of language data is often highly focused on the use of statistics to generate research results. This is exceptionally useful in terms of replicability of research, however results are not always completely useful for the target audience. Many corpus linguistics resources discuss the importance of intuition in the interpretation of findings. Despite this, research is still often highly focused on results which appear to be purely empirically driven, when in fact the process of analysis and interpretation may be highly intuitive but be written to appear straightforwardly empirical. This article will discuss the author’s process of moving from a purely statistical approach to corpus linguistics to a more blended intuitive-empirical approach throughout the analysis and interpretation of corpus data. While this article will focus on research performed in an ESP context, the content should be generalizable to much of corpus research.
This article will review the development of a partially-automated online teaching system develope... more This article will review the development of a partially-automated online teaching system developed to help intermediate-level engineering students learn appropriate English phrases in an English as a Foreign Language (EFL) environment. Expanding on past work in the development of both word and phrase lists for study by students, the Corpus-based Engineering English Materials (CEEM) project creates a set of both downloadable traditional paper-based materials as well as interactive online materials for students, teachers, and researchers based on the Engineering English Corpus (EEC). The EEC is a corpus of approximately 1.2 million words compiled from the textbooks used in the international engineering program at King Mongkut's University of Technology (KMUTT). Rather than focusing solely on keywords which the students learn to use properly through regular coursework, these materials highlight useful collocations, and genrespecific uses of common words and phrases (multi-word units, frames, etc.) that are often left unnoticed in a more traditional lexical approach to teaching language. The online interactive materials, based only on a small set of words, phrases, and sentences from the corpus, are able to generate a relatively large number of unique exercises for students. These exercises, through the careful use of scaffolding allow students to not only practice content that they have previously learned, but to in fact learn new material that they have not previously studied. In this way, the materials can be used either by students alone, or in conjunction with in-class use of the paperbased materials.
This article presents the rationale and development of the Engineering Phrases List (EPL). The EP... more This article presents the rationale and development of the Engineering Phrases List (EPL). The EPL is a 40-word list of teachable phrases for Engineering students based on a mixed-method empirical and intuitive corpus approach. First, frequent, engineering-specific, widely used phrases were identified in a corpus of engineering English. These phrases were then analyzed for markedness and ranked to determine which would be most useful from a teaching perspective and in terms of productive and receptive usefulness for learners. This research both creates a useful tool for teachers of engineering English as well as presents a methodology which should be useful for those developing similar lists in other ESP/EAP contexts. Furthermore, the implications of identifying and teaching phrases by focusing on markedness are discussed throughout the paper.
Corpus linguistics’ approach to the analysis of language data is often highly focused on the use ... more Corpus linguistics’ approach to the analysis of language data is often highly focused on the use of statistics to generate research results. This is exceptionally useful in terms of replicability of research, however results are not always completely useful for the target audience. Many corpus linguistics resources discuss the importance of intuition in the interpretation of findings. Despite this, research is still often highly focused on results which appear to be purely empirically driven, when in fact the process of analysis and interpretation may be highly intuitive but be written to appear straightforwardly empirical. This article will discuss the author’s process of moving from a purely statistical approach to corpus linguistics to a more blended intuitive-empirical approach throughout the analysis and interpretation of corpus data. While this article will focus on research performed in an ESP context, the content should be generalizable to much of corpus research.
This paper presents a description of the design and implementation
of a computerizedmorphologica... more This paper presents a description of the design and implementation
of a computerizedmorphological segmentation tool
for Cayuga nouns. Speakers of polysynthetic First Nations
languages are presented with an array of difficulties when it
comes to word segmentation and dictionary access. This program
demonstrates that finite-state techniques are applicable
to these morphologically complex languages and are worth
further study and development in order to create useful tools
for speakers and learners of thesis languages.
Proceedings of the 34th Annual ThaiTESOL International Conference, 2014
This article presents the rationale and development of the Engineering Phrases List (EPL). The EP... more This article presents the rationale and development of the Engineering Phrases List (EPL). The EPL is a 40-word list of teachable phrases for Engineering students based on a mixed-method empirical and intuitive corpus approach. First, frequent, engineering-specific, widely used phrases were identified in a corpus of engineering English. These phrases were then analyzed for markedness and ranked to determine which would be most useful from a teaching perspective and in terms of productive and receptive usefulness for learners. This research both creates a useful tool for teachers of engineering English as well as presents a methodology which should be useful for those developing similar lists in other ESP/EAP contexts. Furthermore, the implications of identifying and teaching phrases by focusing on markedness are discussed throughout the paper.
This article will review the development of a partially-automated online teaching system develope... more This article will review the development of a partially-automated online teaching system developed to help intermediate-level engineering students learn appropriate English phrases in an English as a Foreign Language (EFL) environment. Expanding on past work in the development of both word and phrase lists for study by students, the Corpus-based Engineering English Materials (CEEM) project creates a set of both downloadable traditional paper-based materials as well as interactive online materials for students, teachers, and researchers based on the Engineering English Corpus (EEC). The EEC is a corpus of approximately 1.2 million words compiled from the textbooks used in the international engineering program at King Mongkut’s University of Technology (KMUTT). Rather than focusing solely on keywords which the students learn to use properly through regular coursework, these materials highlight useful collocations, and genre-specific uses of common words and phrases (multi-word units, frames, etc.) that are often left unnoticed in a more traditional lexical approach to teaching language. The online interactive materials, based only on a small set of words, phrases, and sentences from the corpus, are able to generate a relatively large number of unique exercises for students. These exercises, through the careful use of scaffolding allow students to not only practice content that they have previously learned, but to in fact learn new material that they have not previously studied. In this way, the materials can be used either by students alone, or in conjunction with in-class use of the paper-based materials.
This article will review the development of a partially-automated online teaching system develope... more This article will review the development of a partially-automated online teaching system developed to help intermediate-level engineering students learn appropriate English phrases in an English as a Foreign Language (EFL) environment. Expanding on past work in the development of both word and phrase lists for study by students, the Corpus-based Engineering English Materials (CEEM) project creates a set of both downloadable traditional paper-based materials as well as interactive online materials for students, teachers, and researchers based on the Engineering English Corpus (EEC). The EEC is a corpus of approximately 1.2 million words compiled from the textbooks used in the international engineering program at King Mongkut’s University of Technology (KMUTT). Rather than focusing solely on keywords which the students learn to use properly through regular coursework, these materials highlight useful collocations, and genre-specific uses of common words and phrases (multi-word units, frames, etc.) that are often left unnoticed in a more traditional lexical approach to teaching language. The online interactive materials, based only on a small set of words, phrases, and sentences from the corpus, are able to generate a relatively large number of unique exercises for students. These exercises, through the careful use of scaffolding allow students to not only practice content that they have previously learned, but to in fact learn new material that they have not previously studied. In this way, the materials can be used either by students alone, or in conjunction with in-class use of the paper-based materials.
Corpus linguistics' approach to the analysis of language data is often highly focused on the use ... more Corpus linguistics' approach to the analysis of language data is often highly focused on the use of statistics to generate research results. This is exceptionally useful in terms of replicability of research, however results are not always completely useful for the target audience. Many corpus linguistics resources discuss the importance of intuition in the interpretation of findings. Despite this, research is still often highly focused on results which appear to be purely empirically driven, when in fact the process of analysis and interpretation may be highly intuitive but be written to appear straightforwardly empirical. This article will discuss the author's process of moving from a purely statistical approach to corpus linguistics to a more blended intuitive-empirical approach throughout the analysis and interpretation of corpus data. While this article will focus on research performed in an ESP context, the content should be generalizable to much of corpus research.
This paper presents a description of the design and imple-mentation of a computerized morphologic... more This paper presents a description of the design and imple-mentation of a computerized morphological segmentation tool for Cayuga nouns. Speakers of polysynthetic First Nations languages are presented with an array of difficulties when it comes to word segmentation and dictionary access. This pro-gram demonstrates that finite-state techniques are applicable to these morphologically complex languages and are worth further study and development in order to create useful tools for speakers and learners of thesis languages. 1 Introduction As linguists we often produce theoretical work that is not necessarily of immediate use to people outside of our circle. We also produce work with prac-tical applications in the form of dictionaries, grammars and so forth. For endan-gered languages with small numbers of speakers, it is of paramount importance to produce descriptions that can be used in teaching new speakers. The theme of this year's conference was that of "interfaces", so ...
This paper presents a detailed description of the design and implementation of a computerized mor... more This paper presents a detailed description of the design and implementation of a computerized morphological segmentation tool for Cayuga nouns. Speakers of polysynthetic First Nations languages are presented with an array of difficulties when it comes to word segmentation and dictionary access. This program demonstrates that finite-state techniques are applicable to these morphologically complex languages and are worth further study and development in order to create useful tools for speakers and learners of thesis languages.
Corpus linguistics’ approach to the analysis of language data is often highly focused on the use ... more Corpus linguistics’ approach to the analysis of language data is often highly focused on the use of statistics to generate research results. This is exceptionally useful in terms of replicability of research, however results are not always completely useful for the target audience. Many corpus linguistics resources discuss the importance of intuition in the interpretation of findings. Despite this, research is still often highly focused on results which appear to be purely empirically driven, when in fact the process of analysis and interpretation may be highly intuitive but be written to appear straightforwardly empirical. This article will discuss the author’s process of moving from a purely statistical approach to corpus linguistics to a more blended intuitive-empirical approach throughout the analysis and interpretation of corpus data. While this article will focus on research performed in an ESP context, the content should be generalizable to much of corpus research.
This article will review the development of a partially-automated online teaching system develope... more This article will review the development of a partially-automated online teaching system developed to help intermediate-level engineering students learn appropriate English phrases in an English as a Foreign Language (EFL) environment. Expanding on past work in the development of both word and phrase lists for study by students, the Corpus-based Engineering English Materials (CEEM) project creates a set of both downloadable traditional paper-based materials as well as interactive online materials for students, teachers, and researchers based on the Engineering English Corpus (EEC). The EEC is a corpus of approximately 1.2 million words compiled from the textbooks used in the international engineering program at King Mongkut's University of Technology (KMUTT). Rather than focusing solely on keywords which the students learn to use properly through regular coursework, these materials highlight useful collocations, and genrespecific uses of common words and phrases (multi-word units, frames, etc.) that are often left unnoticed in a more traditional lexical approach to teaching language. The online interactive materials, based only on a small set of words, phrases, and sentences from the corpus, are able to generate a relatively large number of unique exercises for students. These exercises, through the careful use of scaffolding allow students to not only practice content that they have previously learned, but to in fact learn new material that they have not previously studied. In this way, the materials can be used either by students alone, or in conjunction with in-class use of the paperbased materials.
This article presents the rationale and development of the Engineering Phrases List (EPL). The EP... more This article presents the rationale and development of the Engineering Phrases List (EPL). The EPL is a 40-word list of teachable phrases for Engineering students based on a mixed-method empirical and intuitive corpus approach. First, frequent, engineering-specific, widely used phrases were identified in a corpus of engineering English. These phrases were then analyzed for markedness and ranked to determine which would be most useful from a teaching perspective and in terms of productive and receptive usefulness for learners. This research both creates a useful tool for teachers of engineering English as well as presents a methodology which should be useful for those developing similar lists in other ESP/EAP contexts. Furthermore, the implications of identifying and teaching phrases by focusing on markedness are discussed throughout the paper.
Corpus linguistics’ approach to the analysis of language data is often highly focused on the use ... more Corpus linguistics’ approach to the analysis of language data is often highly focused on the use of statistics to generate research results. This is exceptionally useful in terms of replicability of research, however results are not always completely useful for the target audience. Many corpus linguistics resources discuss the importance of intuition in the interpretation of findings. Despite this, research is still often highly focused on results which appear to be purely empirically driven, when in fact the process of analysis and interpretation may be highly intuitive but be written to appear straightforwardly empirical. This article will discuss the author’s process of moving from a purely statistical approach to corpus linguistics to a more blended intuitive-empirical approach throughout the analysis and interpretation of corpus data. While this article will focus on research performed in an ESP context, the content should be generalizable to much of corpus research.
This paper presents a description of the design and implementation
of a computerizedmorphologica... more This paper presents a description of the design and implementation
of a computerizedmorphological segmentation tool
for Cayuga nouns. Speakers of polysynthetic First Nations
languages are presented with an array of difficulties when it
comes to word segmentation and dictionary access. This program
demonstrates that finite-state techniques are applicable
to these morphologically complex languages and are worth
further study and development in order to create useful tools
for speakers and learners of thesis languages.
Proceedings of the 34th Annual ThaiTESOL International Conference, 2014
This article presents the rationale and development of the Engineering Phrases List (EPL). The EP... more This article presents the rationale and development of the Engineering Phrases List (EPL). The EPL is a 40-word list of teachable phrases for Engineering students based on a mixed-method empirical and intuitive corpus approach. First, frequent, engineering-specific, widely used phrases were identified in a corpus of engineering English. These phrases were then analyzed for markedness and ranked to determine which would be most useful from a teaching perspective and in terms of productive and receptive usefulness for learners. This research both creates a useful tool for teachers of engineering English as well as presents a methodology which should be useful for those developing similar lists in other ESP/EAP contexts. Furthermore, the implications of identifying and teaching phrases by focusing on markedness are discussed throughout the paper.
This article will review the development of a partially-automated online teaching system develope... more This article will review the development of a partially-automated online teaching system developed to help intermediate-level engineering students learn appropriate English phrases in an English as a Foreign Language (EFL) environment. Expanding on past work in the development of both word and phrase lists for study by students, the Corpus-based Engineering English Materials (CEEM) project creates a set of both downloadable traditional paper-based materials as well as interactive online materials for students, teachers, and researchers based on the Engineering English Corpus (EEC). The EEC is a corpus of approximately 1.2 million words compiled from the textbooks used in the international engineering program at King Mongkut’s University of Technology (KMUTT). Rather than focusing solely on keywords which the students learn to use properly through regular coursework, these materials highlight useful collocations, and genre-specific uses of common words and phrases (multi-word units, frames, etc.) that are often left unnoticed in a more traditional lexical approach to teaching language. The online interactive materials, based only on a small set of words, phrases, and sentences from the corpus, are able to generate a relatively large number of unique exercises for students. These exercises, through the careful use of scaffolding allow students to not only practice content that they have previously learned, but to in fact learn new material that they have not previously studied. In this way, the materials can be used either by students alone, or in conjunction with in-class use of the paper-based materials.
This article will review the development of a partially-automated online teaching system develope... more This article will review the development of a partially-automated online teaching system developed to help intermediate-level engineering students learn appropriate English phrases in an English as a Foreign Language (EFL) environment. Expanding on past work in the development of both word and phrase lists for study by students, the Corpus-based Engineering English Materials (CEEM) project creates a set of both downloadable traditional paper-based materials as well as interactive online materials for students, teachers, and researchers based on the Engineering English Corpus (EEC). The EEC is a corpus of approximately 1.2 million words compiled from the textbooks used in the international engineering program at King Mongkut’s University of Technology (KMUTT). Rather than focusing solely on keywords which the students learn to use properly through regular coursework, these materials highlight useful collocations, and genre-specific uses of common words and phrases (multi-word units, frames, etc.) that are often left unnoticed in a more traditional lexical approach to teaching language. The online interactive materials, based only on a small set of words, phrases, and sentences from the corpus, are able to generate a relatively large number of unique exercises for students. These exercises, through the careful use of scaffolding allow students to not only practice content that they have previously learned, but to in fact learn new material that they have not previously studied. In this way, the materials can be used either by students alone, or in conjunction with in-class use of the paper-based materials.
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of a computerizedmorphological segmentation tool
for Cayuga nouns. Speakers of polysynthetic First Nations
languages are presented with an array of difficulties when it
comes to word segmentation and dictionary access. This program
demonstrates that finite-state techniques are applicable
to these morphologically complex languages and are worth
further study and development in order to create useful tools
for speakers and learners of thesis languages.
of a computerizedmorphological segmentation tool
for Cayuga nouns. Speakers of polysynthetic First Nations
languages are presented with an array of difficulties when it
comes to word segmentation and dictionary access. This program
demonstrates that finite-state techniques are applicable
to these morphologically complex languages and are worth
further study and development in order to create useful tools
for speakers and learners of thesis languages.