Oxford Dictionaries American English corpus
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The Oxford Dictionaries American English corpus is a large, curated collection of contemporary American English texts used to analyze usage and inform the content of Oxford’s American English dictionaries.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Oxford Dictionaries American English corpus canonical | 1 |
Statements (57)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
American English corpus
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linguistic resource ⓘ text corpus ⓘ |
| basisFor |
Oxford American English dictionaries
NERFINISHED
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Oxford online American English dictionary content ⓘ |
| characteristic |
contemporary-focused
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evidence-based ⓘ large-scale ⓘ usage-driven ⓘ |
| curation |
curated selection of texts
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quality-controlled data ⓘ |
| dataSource |
books
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magazines ⓘ newspapers ⓘ other contemporary written sources ⓘ websites ⓘ |
| dataType | written texts ⓘ |
| language | American English NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| maintainedBy |
Oxford Dictionaries
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Oxford University Press NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| methodology | corpus linguistics ⓘ |
| primaryPurpose |
dictionary compilation
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lexicographic research ⓘ usage analysis ⓘ |
| region |
United States of America
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surface form:
United States
|
| scope |
contemporary language
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modern usage ⓘ |
| usedFor |
analyzing contemporary American English usage
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collocation analysis ⓘ corpus-based style guidance ⓘ corpus-driven language teaching materials ⓘ diachronic comparison with earlier corpora ⓘ evidence-based lexicography ⓘ example sentence selection ⓘ frequency band assignment in dictionaries ⓘ genre analysis ⓘ grammar pattern analysis ⓘ identifying obsolete or rare usages ⓘ identifying regional variation in American English ⓘ informing Oxford American English dictionary entries ⓘ lexical productivity studies ⓘ monitoring language change ⓘ monitoring loanwords in American English ⓘ multiword expression analysis ⓘ phraseology research ⓘ register analysis ⓘ register-specific vocabulary analysis ⓘ semantic prosody analysis ⓘ sense disambiguation in lexicography ⓘ spelling variant analysis ⓘ spoken vs written usage comparison ⓘ studying frequency of words and phrases ⓘ terminology research ⓘ tracking neologisms ⓘ updating definitions ⓘ word origin evidence collection ⓘ |
| varietyOf | English language ⓘ |
Referenced by (1)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.