CorCenCC

Thomas, Enlli (Participant)

The North Wales School of Education

Impact: Technological, Cultural, Societal

Description of impact

CorCenCC is a language resource for Welsh speakers, Welsh learners, Welsh language researchers, and indeed anyone who is interested in the Welsh language. CorCenCC is a freely accessible collection of multiple language samples, gathered from real-life communication

Impact Summary for the General Public

Description of the underpinning research

CorCenCC is an interdisciplinary and multi-institutional project that was funded by the ESRC and AHRC (Grant Ref ES/M011348/1). The CorCenCC project involved 4 academic institutions (Cardiff, Swansea, Lancaster and Bangor Universities), and an international team of researchers, consultants and advisors representing community, industry and academic stakeholders.

Beneficiaries and reach of impact

The CorCenCC team consulted potential users of the corpus at all stages of development. This informed the content and design of the corpus, maximising its value to a wide range of user groups, from teachers and learners to academic researchers, translators, publishers, policy-makers, language technology developers and others.

Impact status	Ongoing
Category of impact	Technological, Cultural, Societal

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A corpus is an electronic database of words. It is different from a dictionary, because when a user searches for a word in a corpus, rather than seeing a definition they see examples of the word in excerpts from a variety of texts (which might include conversations, books, blog entries, etc.), exactly as they were used by the original author or speaker. Users can also find out, for instance, how frequently a specific word is used, or what are the most frequently used words in specific kinds of communication (or across the entire corpus). This provides researchers with evidence of how language is actually used (rather than how we intuitively think it’s used). It also enables the creation of tailored texts or materials to help with language learning. Every word in a corpus is tagged with, for example, grammatical information (i.e. part of speech – noun, verb, etc.) and semantic information (relating to themes and topics), and information is provided about where each language excerpt is from (e.g. text type, speaker location). This makes a corpus a valuable electronic tool which allows us to explore and to better understand our language.

CorCenCC

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