©2006 Barry Natusch Tools for Language Researchers Barry Natusch “ Man is a tool-using animal....

©2006 Barry Natusch

Tools for Language Researchers

Barry Natusch “Man is a tool-using animal. Without tools he is nothing, with tools he is all.” -

Thomas Carlyle


Increase in workloads

Teachers and researchers need to upgrade their computer literacyThey need a knowledge and analysis skills of media tools


Resource Surveys

G e ne ra list S p ec ia list

D irec to r ies

S tan d a lon e i tem s C o m p o ne n ts

P ro du c ts

R e so u rce S u rve ys


General introductory lists

Yahoo http://picks.yahoo.com/picks/Social_Science/Linguistics_and_Languages

SpellingGrammar and UsageIdentifying dialectsIdiomsClichesOverused expressionsColloquialismsOnomatapoeiaWord usage triviaBack-translation entertainment


Specialist Directories

Linguist List http://www.linguistlist.org/software.html

Texts and corpora (44)Online bibliographies (41)Dictionaries (215)Style guides (8)Browsers and editors (89 concordancers)Fonts for foreign languages, transcription (38)Markup languages (9)


Examples of other specialist directories

Online linguistic journals and newsletters http://www.ling.rochester.edu/links/journals.html

Publishers and bookstores of linguistics works http://www.ling.rochester.edu/links/journals.html

Linguistics and language projects on the web http://www.ling.rochester.edu/links/pages.html

Dictionaries on the web http://www.yourdictionary.com/

Travellers dictionaries http://dictionaries.travlang.com/


Specific products

Computer system softwareInternet accessGeneral computer applicationsDictionaries and translationCorporaSpeech analysis and phoneticsConcordancersParsersTools for researching pedagogical issuesStatistical analysis


Computer System Software

Operating system eg Windows

Utilities and drivers eg Partition Magic

Security eg Norton Utilities, Zone Alarm


Internet access

Email application eg Outlook Express

Internet browser eg Internet Explorer

Search engines eg yahoo.com, google.com


General computer applications

Text editing eg MS Word

Charting eg MS Excel

Graphics eg Adobe Photoshop

Reference eg Encyclopedia Britannica

Presentation eg MS PowerPoint


Dictionaries and translation tools

Monolingual dictionaries eg Oxford English Dictionary http://www.oed.com

Bilingual dictionaries eg Eijiro http://www.alc.co.jp/

Specialized dictionaries eg Semantic Rhyming Dictionary http://www.rhymezone.com/

Multilingual dictionaries and translation sites eg Babelfish http://world.altavista.com/


Corpora

British National Corpus ( BNC) http://www.hcu.ox.ac.uk/BNC/

International Computer Archive of Modern and Medieval English (ICAME) http://www.hit.uib.no/icame.html

Literature on the web http://www.ling.lancs.ac.uk/staff/visitors/kenji/literatu.htm


Speech analysis and phonetics

Transcription and IPA fonts

eg John Wells’ site http://www.phon.ucl.ac.uk/home/wells/ipa-unicode.htm

Spectrographic analysis

eg WASP http://www.phon.ucl.ac.uk/resource/sfs/wasp.htm

Text to Speech eg Scansoft’s Naturally Speaking (http://www.scansoft.com/

Speech to Text eg AT&T Natural Voices Desktop Text-to-Speech Engine http://www.naturalvoices.att.com/demos/


Concordancers

Collins Cobuild Direct http://titania.cobuild.collins.co.uk/direct_info.html

Wordsmith http://www.liv.ac.uk/~ms2928/

MonoConc & MonoConc Pro http://www.athel.com/mono.html

Concordance http://www.rjcw.freeserve.co.uk/

Collins Cobuild English Collocations http://titania.cobuild.collins.co.uk/collscd.html

Ultrafind http://www.ultradesign.com/


Parsers

Alvey Programme http://www.cl.cam.ac.uk/Research/NL/anlt.html

Natural Language Processing http://www.cs.kun.nl/agfl/ Chomsky-oriented parsers http://www.nyu.edu/pages/linguistics/parsers.html


Pedagogical Issues

WebCT http://www.webct.com/products

Hot Potatoes http://web.uvic.ca/hrd/halfbaked/


Statistics

Statistica http://www.statsoftinc.com/

SPSS http://spss.com/


Individual Responsibility

The number of tasks e-tools can perform, their sophistication, their proliferation and variety mean that researchers now need to not only keep up with their own research field but also to constantly upgrade their knowledge of tools and their skill in using them.


Organizational Responsibility

With heavier workloads and ongoing development being critical to an individual’s as well as an organization’s development, ongoing support and information technology training needs to be given by institutions to

their personnel.

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