Welcome to Michael's Ling Utils

Purpose

As a student of computational linguist I enjoy every utility that I can get my hands on. Not only do they make working with linguistics more interactive, but they bring it to life. On top of that, they make it easier to incorporate findings into my papers. For example, I can use parse tree tools to draw trees and save them as pictures (much easier than using a paint program).

I try to provide BYU Site copies whenever possible (because sometimes their sites turn off).

If you know of a resource that I have not listed, please tell me by sending an email to anonimo at byu.edu.

Resource Listings like this Page

• http://languagelink.let.uu.nl/

Parsing/Drawing Parses

• Stanford Parser: remote
• Syntree: BYU Site remote
  • Pros: Draws as you change the tree. Can show movement, and also triangles!
  • Noun Phrase (NP) triangle
  • Wh-Question: What did you eat?
  • A very full tree: This program hasn't been being used.
  • Wh-question: When hasn't this program been being used?
  • Ditransitive (coming soon)
  • Transitive (coming soon)
  • Intransitive (coming soon)
  • Unaccusative (coming soon)
  • Unergative (coming soon)
  • Exceptional case marking (ECM) (coming soon)
  • Object Control (coming soon)
  • Subject Control (coming soon)
  • PRO (coming soon)
  • pro (coming soon)
  • Other examples are at: examples/tutorial
• PHP Syntax Tree: remote
  • Pros: Draws as you change the tree.
  • Cons: Cannot show movements.

Online Corpora

• Corpus.byu.edu (45-450 million words each): BYU Site
• COHA: BYU Site
• COCA: BYU Site
• COCA-based resources: http://corpus.byu.edu/resources.asp
  • http://www.academicwords.info/ by Dr. Mark Davies
  • http://www.ngrams.info/
  • http://www.wordfrequency.info/
• General Conference: BYU Site
• CHILDES Playground at Linguistics Online remote tutorial/specifications
• Michigan Corpus of Academic Spoken Englis (MICASE) remote

IPA (Keyboards, symbols, sounds)

• ipa-chart: Supports copying of various IPA symbols remote
• IPA Keyboard Playground: remote (Linguistics Online)

Playgrounds

• Linguistics Online: remote

Others

• wordcloud: BYU Site remote
  • Pros: Updates quickly, clean output. Works off web pages and files!
    (example word clouds: LDS.org, BYU.edu, New York Times
  • Cons: Does not save as a picture automatically.
• Alliteration Locator: BYU Site
  • Pros: Built and maintained by me. Built using Java code, so it can run on Mac or Windows (and more).
  • Cons: Still in beta. Works only for English. Uses only orthographic hints (e.g. confuses words that start with "ph" as starting with the /p/ sound.)
  • Note: Requires Java.

For more projects written by me, go to My Home Page

If you know of a resource that I have not listed, please tell me by sending an email to anonimo at byu.edu.