The EcoLexicon English Corpus as an open corpus in Sketch Engine
This provides an open resource for researchers and users in environmental linguistics, but it is incremental as it builds on existing corpus tools and data.
The paper introduces the EcoLexicon English Corpus (EEC), a 23.1-million-word open corpus of environmental texts, and describes its construction and querying methods using Sketch Engine.
The EcoLexicon English Corpus (EEC) is a 23.1-million-word corpus of contemporary environmental texts. It was compiled by the LexiCon research group for the development of EcoLexicon (Faber, Leon-Arauz & Reimerink 2016; San Martin et al. 2017), a terminological knowledge base on the environment. It is available as an open corpus in the well-known corpus query system Sketch Engine (Kilgarriff et al. 2014), which means that any user, even without a subscription, can freely access and query the corpus. In this paper, the EEC is introduced by de- scribing how it was built and compiled and how it can be queried and exploited, based both on the functionalities provided by Sketch Engine and on the parameters in which the texts in the EEC are classified.