Online corpora and web services
Exercise 1
- What is a corpus?
- What types of corpora do you know?
Exercise 2
- What kind of online available corpora do you know? Provide the Links.
Exercise 3
The following collocations where extracted from the Brown family corpus
- provide assistance/information/services/access/service
- take place/advantage/care/account/part/step/risk/notice/action
- wide range/variety/world/eyes , open , ranging/eyed
- shallow water
- hot/cold/boiling/fresh/distilled/shallow/deep water
- deep breath/sea/water, blue
- Search for take, wide, shallow, water in Words and Phrases
Have a look at the collocations and compare them to the collocations listed above (similarities/differences) and discuss.