Introduction to Corpus investigative techniques

An online information pack about corpus investigation techniques for the Humanities.

Unit 1: Introduction [PDF, 106 KB]

1.1 What a corpus is

1.2 What corpus investigation software does

1.3 The sorts of things that a corpus can help you with

1.4 What you need to do corpus work

2.1 Designing a corpus

2.2 Why you need your texts in electronic form

2.3 Issues in keying in texts

2.4 Issues in scanning texts

2.5 Issues in getting texts from the internet

2.6 Issues in compiling a spoken corpus

3.1 Commonly-used reference corpora and how to find them

3.2 Commonly-used corpus investigation software and how to find it

*there is no Unit 4