Corpora: OnLine English phrase checker

Jane A. Edwards (edwards@ICSI.Berkeley.EDU)
Thu, 4 Nov 1999 01:47:25 -0800 (PST)

The following message actually reached me as spam, but
I found the OnLine English phrase checker (the third URL below)
to be useful enough that I thought it might be of interest to the list.

I looked up "wheels in motion" and "gears in motion" to test it.
For "wheels in motion" it said:
3002 documents found - 0.0310 seconds search time
For "gears in motion" is found only about 1/10 that many:
201 documents found - 0.0140 seconds search time
(Maybe that's why I'd never heard the second one before last week?)

It gives you standard search-engine type listings, so you can click
on the URL and see the phrase in context.

It's not the BNC, of course, but it might be interesting for some purposes.

Best Wishes,

-Jane Edwards

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From ole2@oleng.com.au Thu Oct 28 05:30 PDT 1999
Date: Thu, 28 Oct 1999 20:30:00 +1000
From: OnLine English <ole2@oleng.com.au>
Subject: Resources for publishing in English

Announcing a new WWW site for OnLine English

* a full outline of its editing service for academics and researchers
(www.oleng.com.au)

* writers' links for researchers and other professionals
(http://www.oleng.com.au/indexwl.html)

* the OnLine English phrase checker, a new way of using search engine
technology to check any English phrase and better understand how English
works in context (http://www.oleng.com.au/indexpc.html)