Using the World Wide Web as a Massive Corpus

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Using the World Wide Webas a Massive Corpus

• Martin Edwardes
• University of East London
• martin.edwardes_at_btopenworld.com
• Paper presented to
• the British Association for Applied Linguistics
  conference
• Cork, September 2006

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The Hierarchical Organisationof the Web
A Resource is anything that is not itself a web
page pictures, documents, sound files, movies
downloadables, etc.
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Three Corpus Studies

• I Like both Myself and Me
• Trying Times
• Came in out of

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Using the World Wide Webas a Massive Corpus
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• Martin Edwardes
• University of East London
• martin.edwardes_at_btopenworld.com
• Paper presented to
• the British Association for Applied Linguistics
  conference
• Cork, September 2006