CANELC: constructing an e-language corpus

Knight, Dawn, Adolphs, Svenja and Carter, Ronald (2014) CANELC: constructing an e-language corpus. Corpora, 9 (1). pp. 29-56. ISSN 1755-1676

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Abstract

This paper reports on the construction of CANELC: the Cambridge and Nottingham e-language Corpus.3 CANELC is a one million word corpus of digital communication in English, taken from online discussion boards, blogs, tweets, emails and SMS messages. The paper outlines the approaches used when planning the corpus: obtaining consent; collecting the data and compiling the corpus database.

This is followed by a detailed analysis of some of the patterns of language used in the corpus. The analysis includes a discussion of the key words and phrases used as well as the common themes and semantic associations connected with the data. These discussions form the basis of an investigation of how e-language operates in both similar and different ways to spoken and written records of communication (as evidenced by the BNC - British National Corpus).

3 CANELC stands for Cambridge and Nottingham e-language Corpus. This corpus has been built as part of a collaborative project between The University of Nottingham and Cambridge University Press with whom sole copyright of the annotated corpus resides. CANELC comprises one-million words of digital English taken from SMS messages, blogs, tweets, discussion board content and private/business emails. Plans to extend the corpus are under discussion. The legal dimension to corpus ‘ownership’ of some forms of unannotated data is a complex one and is under constant review. At the present time the annotated corpus is only available to authors and researchers working for CUP and is not more generally available.

Item Type: Article
RIS ID: https://nottingham-repository.worktribe.com/output/995856
Additional Information: This article has been accepted for publication by Edinburgh University Press in Corpora. Copyright © 2016. Edinburgh University Press.
Keywords: Blogs, Tweets, SMS, Discussion boards, e-language, Corpus linguistics
Schools/Departments: University of Nottingham, UK > Faculty of Arts > School of English
Identification Number: 10.3366/cor.2014.0050
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Depositing User: Zimmerman, Emma
Date Deposited: 01 Sep 2016 07:37
Last Modified: 04 May 2020 20:14
URI: https://eprints.nottingham.ac.uk/id/eprint/35781

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