Image via Wikipedia Here are a number of online web services that assist you with analyzing text. With these tools you can tag your resources, create word clouds, extract collocations and do lots, lots more. A comprehensive list of tools is kept by Digital Research Tools. Webservice that tags your resources This webservice helps you… Read More Online resources for Text Analysis
There are endless vocabulary lists on the Internet, and on my blog for that matter, which a student of English can download. Finding lists of Collocations for a particular subject area is a lot harder though. The other day I came across a program (Multilingual Corpus Toolkit) that extracts commonly occurring collocations from a file… Read More Collocation Extraction
VerbOcean is a semantic network of verbs developed way back in 2004 to assist people with creating a wide variety of systems such as question answering and automatic translation. These verbs are therefore a must to learn! The slides listed below contain the most common definitions of the unique verbs in VerbOcean. Presentation I: abandon… Read More VerbOcean Semantic Network
In this presentation you will find words associated with, happiness, caring, depression, inadequateness, fear, confusion, hurt, anger, loneliness and remorse. Feelings
These slides contain basic vocabulary (nouns, verbs, adjectives and adverbs) and are intended to help you assess and extend your knowledge of English. For each word only the most common definition is given. All definitions are taken from Wordnet. Words classifiable in four different ways as a noun, verb, adjective and adverb Nouns Adjectives Regular… Read More Vocabulary Slides – Common Words
Image via CrunchBase Writing is probably one of the most difficult skills to learn even if you have talent. As with many cognitive skills a combination of knowledge and creative ability is needed. Below, you’ll find links to 3 websites which try to help you improve your creativity and knowledge of the English language.… Read More Writing Resources On The Web
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