Re: Corpora: OnLine English phrase checker

Wouden A. van der (A.van.der.Wouden@let.rug.nl)
Thu, 4 Nov 1999 13:23:01 +0100 (MET)

An advantage over the BNC is that it is not restricted to English
phrases: it also work fine (and fast) for, e.g., Dutch. I wonder,
however, about its usefulness for languages with diacritics.

T

>
> 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)
>
>
>
>
> 

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