Corpus linguistics for language lovers. - Ondřej Matuška | PG 2019

How can you check what is natural in language? How do you tell if a word or phrase is really used? You ask thousands of speakers. This might be difficult. But if you have access to a text corpus, you can get all the answers in seconds. I will show you that you do not have to be a linguist or a computer geek to use the corpora in Sketch Engine.
A text corpus is a multi-billion-word collection of texts and Sketch Engine is a web service to search corpora in over 90 languages including less-resourced ones such as Catalan, Tamil, Maori or N’Ko. The biggest corpora exceed the size of 10 billion words (English, Spanish, French, Russian…).
This demo will demonstrate how to use the corpora in Sketch Engine to learn about words and phrases, explore the grammar or collocations, look for authentic examples, find translations, or automatically identify terminology. You can even create your own corpus in a language that you fancy – and then analyze it. Sketch Engine also looks for enthusiastic speakers of various languages willing to help them evaluate new corpora.
Participants are encouraged to bring their own internet-enabled devices to test Sketch Engine on the spot.

Ondřej Matuška graduated in English language and literature and started working as an English teacher. Later he joined Macmillan Education as a ELT teacher trainer and presenter. Since 2016, he has been a trainer at Lexical Computing, a company behind Sketch Engine, a leading corpus query, corpus management and corpus building software. Ondřej’s professional interest is in introducing corpora to the general public for use as a language reference resource or for language learning.

Cette vidéo a été enregistrée lors du rassemblement Polyglot à Bratislava 2019 (https://www.polyglotbratislava.com/).

Видео Corpus linguistics for language lovers. - Ondřej Matuška | PG 2019 канала Polyglot Gathering