Michigan Corpus Linguistics Home

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Welcome to the Michigan Corpus Linguistics website!

The Michigan Corpus Linguistics team consists of researchers and students at the University of Michigan (U-M) English Language Institute (ELI). We create corpora of spoken and written academic English, provide corpus-based materials for EAP (English for Academic Purposes) teaching, and carry out research in different areas of corpus linguistics.

On our website you find information about the corpora we make available, the projects we work on, and the training we provide to ELI visiting scholars and University of Michigan students.

Using this Website

There are two ways to navigate around our site:

• You can use the tabs on the right to look at only the materials that we have classified as relevant for one of three target audience groups (teachers, learners and researchers). The “All” tab is the default, and will show all the resources available on our website.

• Or you can access all the information and resources for a given project (for example MICASE) by selecting a project from the top bar menu. To see all the resources for that project, make sure the “All” tab is selected on the right.

We hope you will find the Michigan Corpus Linguistics website useful. If you have any questions or comments on our projects or would like to let us know how you are using our resources in your research and teaching, please feel free to contact us at . We look forward to hearing from you!

Below, find information about the corpora we make available, the projects we work on, and the training we provide to ELI visiting scholars and University of Michigan students.

• Michigan Corpus of Academic Spoken English

  MICASE is a collection of nearly 1.8 million words of transcribed academic speech from the University of Michigan in Ann Arbor.

• Michigan Corpus of Upper-Level Student Papers

  MICUSP is a collection of around 830 A and A- graded papers (roughly 2.6 million words) from a range of disciplines across four academic divisions.

• The John Swales Conference Corpus

  The JSCC is a collection of transcripts from an academic conference held in honour of John Swales in June 2006, totaling around 100,000 words.

• The Generation 1.5 Project

  A project that aims to better understand and support the instructional needs of international student writers and Generation 1.5 writers.

• Corpus Training and Research

  Information about our research activities and training we provide in corpus analysis