The Survey of English Usage carries out research in English Linguistics and was the first centre in Europe to carry out research using text corpora. The Survey is based in the Department of English Language and Literature at UCL. More...
News
iPhone / iPad App released!
We are proud to announce the release of the iGE App for the iPhone, iPod Touch and iPad. The interactive Grammar of English is a complete course in Modern English Grammar. iGE updates our popular Internet Grammar, and presents it as a mobile application for a phone or tablet.
Click here for more information. We are currently
working on an Android version.
Our website is now 'mobile-friendly'. Hand-held users have the option
of a new 'mobile reader mode' alongside the standard desktop view.
Survey wins UCL Enterprise Award
We’re
delighted that the Survey has been awarded a UCL Enterprise Award
for a project entitled Marketing the resources of the Survey
of English Usage by the BEAMS
Knowledge Transfer and Enterprise Board and the Vice-Provost (Enterprise).
The project’s aims are to commercialise the AHRC-funded Web-based
platform for English Language Teaching and Learning.
UCL Enterprise Awards are funded by the Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council (EPSRC).
Click here for more
information.
Survey seminar series
Two seminars will take place in the Spring term. These seminars will be held in 16-18 Gordon Square (not Foster Court) at 4pm.
On Monday 5th March, Alan Durant (Middlesex) will talk about updating Raymond Williams’ Keywords. On Wednesday 14th March, Sylvia Adamson (Sheffield) will discuss Grammaticalization.
Survey seminars are open to all members of staff and students, and are generously supported by the English Department.
For more information click here.
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The AHRC Knowledge Transfer Fellowship Creating a Web-Based Platform for English Language Teaching and Learning started in 2010. This project involves building a website of interactive structured English language courses with a grammatical focus, tailored to the goals of the National Curriculum’s Key Stages 3-5. The course consists of lesson modules dynamically accessing the corpora based at the Survey.
Details of the project, which is carried out with the London
Borough of Camden as a partner, are available here.
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Two major parsed corpora of British English are available to order from the Survey of English Usage.
The Diachronic Corpus of Present-Day Spoken English (DCPSE) consists of 87,000 trees and 800,000 words of spoken English across the decades. Release 2 of the British Component of the International Corpus of English (ICE-GB) is an upgrade of the popular 1 million-word ICE-GB corpus. Both corpora are released with the new ICECUP 3.1 software.
More information, free sample downloads and order forms are here.
This page last modified 26 March, 2012 by Survey Web Administrator.
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