[[FrontPage]] *Connecting texts to [#e60763ab] **Lack of contexts [#e607b033] -typical case: Biber --context is often only referred in terms of the name of the corpus -Concordances --highlight contextual information ---frequency info ---collocations and phraseology ---variation -Corpus approaches and successes --lexicogrammar --usage-based linguistics --variation across text types --thing in concordances ---sentence-initial: one thing to do is ... (cataphoric) ---sentence-final: that kind of thing (anaphoric) --Hoey 2005: Text colligation --Position variation of ngrams & pframes ---O'Donnell and Romer 2010 (ICAME) --Link analysis more to contexts, text structures -Collocate 2.0 --ngrams ---user only selects n ---order by MI, freq ---select sequence, show concordance lines --P-frames --lexical bundles --collocation extraction ---user only selects thresholds and values ---find "collocates" of "collocations" [VERY INTERESTING] -WordSkew --idea of a skewed distribution --divide the texts into x sections --focus on particular sentences/sections --compare word distributions over these subcomponents ---get the histograms ---then click on the bars to go to the concordance lines