Lexicology, Lexicography, and English
dictionaries online
Lexicology
Lexicography
OneLook Dictionary Search (links to
many online dictionaries)
Longman
Web Dictionary (British and U.S. English)
Cambridge
Web Dictionary (British English)
Oxford Advanced Learner's Dictionary (British English)
Merriam-Webster's English
Dictionary & Thesaurus
(U.S. English)
Merriam-Webster's Learner's
Dictionary (U.S. English)
Lexico Publishing Group's dictionary
products (largely U.S. English, including
dictionary.com)
American Heritage
Dictionary of the English Language
Encarta Dictionary (on aspects of world Englishes; some inaccuracies)
Urban Dictionary (Dictionary
'with an attitude')
WordSpy (Top 100 words)
Linguistic terms
explained (frightened of the jargon that linguists use? Consult the
following:)
Linguistic
Glossary (Lexicon of specialized linguistic terms by the Summer Institute of
Linguistics)
Lexicon of Linguistics
(Utrecht's University Linguists explain the meaning of linguistic terms)
Some leading centres for
the study of the lexicon
Australian
National Dictionary Centre (ANDC Schools Dictionary
Project --
It's easy to make a dictionary!)
The
FrameNet Project (at UC, Berkeley)
Corpus Linguistics, and
corpus-based projects/resources:
Corpus linguistics
BNC Online
Cobuild Direct Concordance Sampler
Bank of English - BoE
Lancaster University's Centre for
Computer Research on Language
University of Birmingham Centre for
Corpus Research
ICE - International Corpus of English
ACL Corpus Resources
Manuel Barbera's links on corpora and
corpus linguistics
Computational Linguistics & Linguistic Programming
Association for Computational
Linguistics (the definitive
site for computational linguistics)
PROgramming
LOGic (An Artificial Intelligence, 'declarative' language)
The Oz Programming Language
(Alternative to PROLOG; this was suggested to me by Dr Martin Henz of the School of Computing)
A
tutorial in UNIX (UNIX is the powerful multiuser, multitasking
operating system)
Another tutorial in UNIX
Natural
Language Software Registry (A select list of linguistic software tools)
Some other leading institutions for the study of computers and
language
Istituto di Linguistica Computazionale
(Institute for Computational Linguistics at Pisa)
Dept of Language Engineering (at
the University of Manchester Institute of Science and Technology, UMIST)
Natural Language Processing
Research Group (at the University of Leeds)
Systemic
Meaning Modelling Group (at Macquarie University)
Information and Communication Technology (ICT; IT and Learning)
What
is ICT?
Another
site on ICT objectives
Information
Technology education in
Singapore (Visit the Ministry of Education's homepage on I.T.)
I.T. at the National
University of Singapore (This gives you an idea of the I.T.setup at NUS)
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