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Investigating the visual content of a commercialized academic listening test: Implications for validity 调查商业化学术听力测试的视觉内容：对有效性的影响

Applied Corpus Linguistics Pub Date : 2024-12-01 Epub Date: 2024-10-18 DOI: 10.1016/j.acorp.2024.100109

Zhuohan Hou , Vahid Aryadoust , Azrifah Zakaria

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FreeTxt: A corpus-based bilingual free-text survey and questionnaire data analysis toolkit FreeTxt：基于语料库的双语自由文本调查和问卷数据分析工具包

Applied Corpus Linguistics Pub Date : 2024-12-01 Epub Date: 2024-08-23 DOI: 10.1016/j.acorp.2024.100103

Dawn Knight , Nouran Khallaf , Paul Rayson , Mahmoud El-Haj , Ignatius Ezeani , Steve Morris

{"title":"FreeTxt: A corpus-based bilingual free-text survey and questionnaire data analysis toolkit","authors":"Dawn Knight , Nouran Khallaf , Paul Rayson , Mahmoud El-Haj , Ignatius Ezeani , Steve Morris","doi":"10.1016/j.acorp.2024.100103","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.acorp.2024.100103","url":null,"abstract":"<div><p>Qualitative free-text responses (e.g. from questionnaires and surveys) pose a challenge to many companies and institutions which lack the expertise to analyse such data with ease. While a range of sophisticated tools for the analysis of text <em>do</em> exist, these are often expensive, difficult to use and/or inaccessible to non-expert users. These tools also lack support for the analysis of English <em>and</em> Welsh text, which can be a particular challenge in the bilingual context of Wales. This paper details the key functionalities of the first corpus-based ‘FreeTxt’ toolkit which has been designed to support the systematic analysis and visualisation of free-text data, as a direct response to these two key needs. This paper demonstrates how, by working in partnership, software engineers, natural language processing (NLP) experts and corpus linguists can collaborate with end-users and beneficiaries to provide effective solutions to real world problems. Through the development of FreeTxt (<span><span>www.freetxt.app</span><svg><path></path></svg></span>), we aimed to empower end-users to <em>direct</em> and lead their own analyses of both small-scale and more extensive datasets to maximise the reach and potential impact generated. The approaches reported here, and the bilingual toolkit developed, can be replicated and extended for use in other language contexts and across a range of public and professional sectors. FreeTxt is now available for the analysis of Welsh and/or English, for use by <em>anyone</em> in <em>any sector</em> in Wales and beyond.</p></div>","PeriodicalId":72254,"journal":{"name":"Applied Corpus Linguistics","volume":"4 3","pages":"Article 100103"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2024-12-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S2666799124000200/pdfft?md5=65f8a01d41b4150af967f22d4f542b8f&pid=1-s2.0-S2666799124000200-main.pdf","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142150563","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

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Analysis of verb argument constructions (VACs) in L2 learners across proficiency levels: A corpus-based study in L1 Indonesian 分析不同水平的 L2 学习者的动词论证结构 (VAC)：基于语料库的印尼语第一语言研究

Applied Corpus Linguistics Pub Date : 2024-12-01 Epub Date: 2024-06-16 DOI: 10.1016/j.acorp.2024.100097

Febriana Lestari

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Book review of Designing and Evaluating Language Corpora 设计和评估语言语料库》书评

Applied Corpus Linguistics Pub Date : 2024-12-01 Epub Date: 2024-07-18 DOI: 10.1016/j.acorp.2024.100100

Kimberly P. Becker

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Attitudes, communicative functions, and lexicogrammatical features of anti-vaccine discourse on Telegram Telegram 上反疫苗言论的态度、交际功能和词汇语法特征

Applied Corpus Linguistics Pub Date : 2024-08-01 Epub Date: 2024-05-14 DOI: 10.1016/j.acorp.2024.100095

Souad Boumechaal , Serge Sharoff

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Applying corpus linguistics to the law 将语料库语言学应用于法律

Applied Corpus Linguistics Pub Date : 2024-08-01 Epub Date: 2024-04-14 DOI: 10.1016/j.acorp.2024.100093

Jesse Egbert , Ute Römer-Barron

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‘Luxurious’ metaphors in luxury hotel websites in Singapore and Hong Kong: A mixed-methods study 新加坡和香港豪华酒店网站中的 "奢华 "隐喻：混合方法研究

Applied Corpus Linguistics Pub Date : 2024-08-01 Epub Date: 2024-02-28 DOI: 10.1016/j.acorp.2024.100090

Joanna Zhuoan Chen, Kathleen Ahrens, Dennis Tay

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Wash your hands: CDC, WHO, and NHS tweets in the #COVID19 pandemic 洗手：疾病预防控制中心、世卫组织和国家医疗服务体系在 #COVID19 大流行中的推文

Applied Corpus Linguistics Pub Date : 2024-08-01 Epub Date: 2024-05-13 DOI: 10.1016/j.acorp.2024.100094

Katherine A Ireland

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Representations of obesity in Australian and UK news coverage: A diachronic comparison 澳大利亚和英国新闻报道中对肥胖的表述：异时空比较

Applied Corpus Linguistics Pub Date : 2024-08-01 Epub Date: 2024-03-18 DOI: 10.1016/j.acorp.2024.100092

Luke C. Collins , Paul Baker , Gavin Brookes

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Corpus-linguistic approaches to lexical statutory meaning: Extensionalist vs. intensionalist approaches 词汇法定意义的语料库语言学方法：外延主义与内涵主义方法

Applied Corpus Linguistics Pub Date : 2024-04-01 Epub Date: 2023-12-19 DOI: 10.1016/j.acorp.2023.100079

Stefan Th. Gries, Brian G. Slocum, Kevin Tobia

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