Sketch Engine, concordancing, frequency

Tutorial

https://wuqui.github.io/SkEtut/

Practice

Concordancing

in the enTenTen21 corpus

  1. Search for attestations of the word smartphone.

  1. Search for attestations of the pattern ADJ + SMARTPHONE (i.e. the lemmatized word type (new smartphone, old smartphones)).

  1. Search for attestations of the pattern TAKE a LOOK (e.g. take a look, takes a look).

Frequency analysis

In the enTenTen21 corpus, identify the most common adjectives in the pattern ADJ SMARTPHONE.

  • Identify which words have exhibited the highest increase in usage frequency by using the Trends feature in the English Historical Book Collection (EEBO, ECCO, Evans) corpus.

  • Note that the trends feature is also available for more recent data with the English Trends (2014–today) corpus.

  • Get an overview of the frequency increase of the word which has shown the most positive trend.