{"id":1265,"date":"2006-08-03T21:01:23","date_gmt":"2006-08-04T01:01:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.theoreti.ca\/?p=1265"},"modified":"2006-08-03T21:01:23","modified_gmt":"2006-08-04T01:01:23","slug":"rdues-webcorp-the-web-as-corpus","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/theoreti.ca\/?p=1265","title":{"rendered":"RDUES: WebCorp: The Web as Corpus"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The <a href=\"http:\/\/rdues.uce.ac.uk\/\">Research and Development Unit for English Studies (RDUES)<\/a> of UCE of Birmingham has a tool <a href=\"http:\/\/www.webcorp.org.uk\/\">WebCorp: The Web as Corpus<\/a> which searches google for a term and then goes to the top 199 documents Google identifies and searches them. It takes a while and works like our <a href=\"http:\/\/taporware.mcmaster.ca\/~taporware\/otherTools\/googlizer.shtml\">Googlizer<\/a>, but produces more verbose results. It produces a concordance organized by document with links to a full word frequency list for the doc. The advanced search form has some interesting features, including the ability to point it at other engines.<\/p>\n<p>UCE Birmingham is strange place from the web. UCE stands for &#8220;University of Central England&#8221; and you have to go deep to the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.uce.ac.uk\/web2\/ataglance\/history.html\">At A Glance : History Of UCE Birmingham<\/a> to find this out. (There&#8217;s no point explaining it to outsiders anywhere on the web page.) They seem to have been formed out of all the little colleges, polytechnics and schools in the area in 1992. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Research and Development Unit for English Studies (RDUES) of UCE of Birmingham has a tool WebCorp: The Web as Corpus which searches google for a term and then goes to the top 199 documents Google identifies and searches them. It takes a while and works like our Googlizer, but produces more verbose results. It &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/theoreti.ca\/?p=1265\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">RDUES: WebCorp: The Web as Corpus<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16,7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1265","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-text-analysis","category-text-technology-and-tapor"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/theoreti.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1265","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/theoreti.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/theoreti.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theoreti.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theoreti.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1265"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/theoreti.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1265\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/theoreti.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1265"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theoreti.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1265"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theoreti.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1265"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}