农科学术英语论文语料库的创建

Constructing an agricultural research article corpus of English

本文介绍华中农业大学'农科学术英语论文语料库'的创建情况,包括语料收集、文本的转换与清洁、标记、赋码等。借助CQPweb网络语料库系统,将该语料库部署在校园网供博士生和本科生的学术写作教学。语料库应用于教学的效果调查表明:调查对象认为语料库的应用有利于提高学术英语写作水平,有意愿在写作实践中继续运用语料库这一工具与资源;同时调查对象也指出:现有的语料库资源有待充实,语料库的检索操作仍显复杂。本研究旨在为专门用途语料库的建设提供一些参考。

This paper discusses the necessity of agricultural academic English corpus construction,and introduces the procedures of construction,which include the collection of data,the conversion and cleaning of texts,annotation,tagging,and the extraction of texts.It compares two text cleaning methods.The agricultural academic English corpus was mounted to Hua Zhong Agricultural University(HZAU)intranet using the CQPweb(Corpus Query Processor)system.HZAU CQPweb was tried out in the Ph.D.students’and undergraduates’academic writing courses.The written feedback of the trial indicates that most students acknowledge that corpus-assisted learning helps improve English academic writing quality and claim that they will use corpora in writing up their academic papers.In the meanwhile,the feedback also shows that the existing corpus resources need to be enriched,and that corpus search is still too complicated and not user-friendly enough.