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©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
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Increase in workloads
Teachers and researchers need to upgrade their computer literacyThey need a knowledge and analysis skills of media tools
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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
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General introductory lists
Yahoo http://picks.yahoo.com/picks/Social_Science/Linguistics_and_Languages
SpellingGrammar and UsageIdentifying dialectsIdiomsClichesOverused expressionsColloquialismsOnomatapoeiaWord usage triviaBack-translation entertainment
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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)
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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/
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Specific products
Computer system softwareInternet accessGeneral computer applicationsDictionaries and translationCorporaSpeech analysis and phoneticsConcordancersParsersTools for researching pedagogical issuesStatistical analysis
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Computer System Software
Operating system eg Windows
Utilities and drivers eg Partition Magic
Security eg Norton Utilities, Zone Alarm
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Internet access
Email application eg Outlook Express
Internet browser eg Internet Explorer
Search engines eg yahoo.com, google.com
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General computer applications
Text editing eg MS Word
Charting eg MS Excel
Graphics eg Adobe Photoshop
Reference eg Encyclopedia Britannica
Presentation eg MS PowerPoint
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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/
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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
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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/
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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/
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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
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Pedagogical Issues
WebCT http://www.webct.com/products
Hot Potatoes http://web.uvic.ca/hrd/halfbaked/
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Statistics
Statistica http://www.statsoftinc.com/
SPSS http://spss.com/
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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.
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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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