Corpus technologies in the study of collocations (by the example of “AntConc” and “SketchEngine” services)

Abstract

This work reviews opportunities of studying collocations using corpus technologies. The definitions of the concepts “corpus” and “corpus manager” are given. The definitions of “collocation” in the broad sense and from the corpus linguistics point of view are considered. The main advantages of using corpus instruments for studying collocations are analysed. The description of the functionality of the two most popular corpus services – “AntConc” and “SketchEngine” has been carried out.

Keywords

• corpus
• corpus technology
• corpus manager
• collocation
• antconc
• sketchengine