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	In this age of rapidly changing technology, replacing an outmoded computer, upgrading a piece of software or even ...
		It was there that Professor John Sinclair established the Cobuild project to carry out a computer analysis of a collection of texts — known as a "corpus" (plural: corpora) — totaling eighteen million words.
		Cobuild is actually an acronym made up of "Co" for Collins, the publishing company, and "build" for Birmingham University International Language Database.
		According to Ramesh at Cobuild, now is the time for software designers and lexicographers to work together to take their field to the next level.
	www.bangkokpost.net /education/site2002/cvap0202.htm (1693 words)

	Cobuild English Dictionary, New Edition (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		A Cobuild team began in 1980 to use corpus data for the first edition of the dictionary.
		Cobuild dictionaries also make use of real examples taken from the huge Bank of English, which contains different varieties of English.
		The view of Cobuild is that made-up examples falsify the evidence.
	www.athel.com /cobuild/cob2.html (305 words)

	cobuild reviews
		Cobuild is a department of HarperCollins Publishers, specializing in the preparation of reference works for language learners in English.
		Cobuild is based at the University of Birmingham, UK, as a unit within the School of English where, since 1980, they have carried out research into corpus-based lexicography.
		Cobuild is part of the Department of English at Birmingham University.
	www.ingilizce-ders.com /ingilizce-ders/diger-kaynak/co-build.htm (4981 words)

	GLOSSARY (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		The Bank of English is the name of Cobuild's collection of corpora.
		This is a term used in computing to mean roughly a letter of an alphabet; but a set of characters also includes punctuation marks and on computer keyboards some shapes that are not found in ordinary typing or printing.
		A collection of citations gives important evidence about a language but should not be confused with a corpus, which is a set of representative texts.
	helmer.hit.uib.no /~knut/huin102/glossary.html (2409 words)

	Asian EFL Journal: English Language Teaching and Research Articles
		A simple exercise using the COBUILD dictionary in class, as described by Boyce (in Nation 1994: 191) is only one step in familiarizing learners with the new format since they can look up words in their own time.
		The COBUILD series flouts its authenticity and makes statements confidently reminding readers that real English as it is actually used is quoted from their text collection (Sinclair 1991: vii).
		The COBUILD English Language Dictionary is not so different from the OED and actually mentions in its introduction that it is attempting to be associated with it.
	www.asian-efl-journal.com /march03.sub6.php (4398 words)

	Amazon.com: Cobuild English Language Dictionary 2nd Edition: Helping Learners with Real English (Cobuild Series): ... (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		COBUILD stands for Collins Birmingham University International Language Database, which is a huge repository of written text covering the last several decades.
		Also, since the COBUILD dictionary is compiled strictly from contemporary usages, it eliminates the need to evaluate the senses for currency of usage.
		Another important thing is that, once you get used to Cobuild's Dictionary, it'll be easier if you get other Cobuild publications, because their layout and structure are pretty the same.
	www.amazon.com /Cobuild-English-Language-Dictionary-2nd/dp/0003750299 (1114 words)

	Collins COBUILD dictionaries and reference books
		COBUILD is an acronym for Collins Birmingham University International Language Database.
		The intermediate COBUILD Dictionary - The COBUILDs are know for easy to understand full sentence definitions and real full sentence examples.
		An idiom is a group of words that is recognized as a single unit, and has a different meaning from the meaning of its individual words.
	www.elearnaid.com /collinscobuild.html (657 words)

	Wordsmyth versus Cobuild
		For example, there were students who couldn't find the phonetic transcript in Cobuild.
		The possibility to hear the pronunciation of the searched words was considered one of the major advantages of Cobuild.
		There was also a minority of students who found the explanations in Cobuild easier to work with because they are simplified.
	www.kuleuven.ac.be /iccp/2000/iccp4/wordsmyth/page2.htm (342 words)

	Collins COBUILD English Collocations (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		The Collins COBUILD programme contains some 10,000 node words (a keyword that is the object of investigation); 140,000 node/collocate pairs; and approximately 2.6 million different examples.
		These examples are drawn from the Bank of English --a corpus of 200 million words from a variety of written and spoken sources (such as fiction, non-fiction, newspapers, magazines, transcriptions of radio broadcasts, everyday conversations and interviews) amassed by the University of Birmingham.
		Collins COBUILD English Collocations is a user-friendly concordancer with an extensive corpus of spoken and written English.
	www-writing.berkeley.edu /TESL-EJ/ej25/m2.html (1449 words)

	Exploring Collins COBUILD ON CD-ROM (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		It includes three Collins COBUILD publications (the 3rd edition of the English Dictionary for Advance Learners, the Guide to English Usage, and the English Grammar) as well as a thesaurus, a 5-million word corpus of authentic written and spoken English, and the sound file (mostly British) pronunciations of tens of thousands of headwords and phrases.
		The first is the issue of why COBUILD has chosen not to highlight the collocations which occur within their definitions and example sentences (as is done in the "Extra Column" in the print version).
		As a result, in the COBUILD entry listed for "fight" in Table 2, at no point is it made clear to the learner that "fight for" (highlighted in both the LDOCE and the CIDE) and "fight against" (highlighted in the LDOCE) are commonly occurring collocations.
	www-writing.berkeley.edu /TESL-EJ/ej25/m1.html (3679 words)

	Collins - collins.co.uk - Home of Collins Reference, Leisure and Lifestyle publishing (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		The Collins Cobuild team works with a huge database of modern English text, called a corpus.
		Collins Cobuild books and resources are designed as reference tools for learners of English.
		Throughout the 1980s, using the computational corpus-based approach to language analysis developed by Professor John Sinclair at the University of Birmingham, Collins Cobuild built up a large corpus of modern English, software tools to manipulate and analyse the corpus data, and a team of specialist corpus linguists and lexicographers.
	www.cobuild.collins.co.uk (256 words)

	English Language Institute
		The first hit that appears will be the Cobuild Corpus Sampler.
		The CoBuild Corpus Sampler uses a series of commands which you can use to do your own very specific searches.
		If you scroll down on the Cobuild Corpus Sampler homepage, you will find the complete list of commands.
	www.eli.ubc.ca /students/corpus/tutorial.html (1027 words)

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		Containing hundreds of new words and thousands of definitions written in simple, natural English, this dictionary is exceptionally easy to use and understand.
		New to the fourth edition of the Collins COBUILD Advanced Learner’s English Dictionary is the identification of thousands of set grammatical structures, particularly useful to learners of English.
		The Collins COBUILD Advanced Learner’s English Dictionary provides invaluable and detailed guidance on the English language, and is the complete reference tool for learners of English.
	www.harpercollins.co.uk /books/default.aspx?id=27131 (260 words)

	ELTBooks.com: The David English House/ELT News Book Service (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		The 4th edition of the Collins COBUILD Advanced Learner's English Dictionary contains hundreds of new words and thousands of definitions written in simple, natural English.
		The essential COBUILD dictionary for learners of English with illustrations, study pages, and a wordlist of the most frequent words in the language.
		The Collins COBUILD Intermediate English Grammar provides learners of English from intermediate level upwards with a wealth of practice and reference material in one convenient volume.
	www.eltbooks.com /deh_cobuild.shtml (768 words)

	ALR January February 97 Mainpage
		The Collins COBUILD Student's Dictionary On-Line is also based on a printed dictionary, the Collins COBUILD Student's Dictionary.
		Like the Longman Dictionary of American English for Microsoft Windows, the Collins COBUILD Student's Dictionary On-Line is close to its printed version but it doesn't contain many of the supplementary pedagogical features found in the Collins COBUILD Student's Dictionary.
		The program also includes the 5-million word Collins COBUILD Bank of English corpus which can be searched for examples of words which can be used in spoken and written English.
	www.languagemagazine.com /internetedition/jf97/eeed6.html (713 words)

	Grammar and vocabulary: showing the connections -- Hunston et al. 51 (3): 208 -- ELT Journal
		She was formerly a senior grammarian at Cobuild, and worked on the grammar information in the Collins Cobuild English Dictionary (1995).
		Her main interests are the study of grammar through corpora, and evaluation in discourse.
		She was senior editor of Collins Cobuild English Dictionary (1995) and Collins Cobuild English Usage (1996).
	eltj.oxfordjournals.org /cgi/content/abstract/51/3/208 (249 words)

	Monolingual learner's dictionary - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Almost a decade later another new player, the Collins Cobuild English Dictionary, came out, a significant milestone in corpus-based lexicography.
		1995 was the 'year of the dictionaries': Oxford published its fifth edition, Longman its third, Cobuild its second and yet another player appeared, the Cambridge International Dictionary of English.
		The current editions in 2006 are the seventh of the Oxford dictionary, fourth of the Longman dictionary, fourth of the Collins Cobuild dictionary, and most recently the second of the Cambridge dictionary.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Monolingual_learner's_dictionary (423 words)

	403 - Access Denied (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		This decision has been taken after internal discussions about the growth of e-commerce and HarperCollins's strategy with regard to electronic use of language content owned by the company.
		Due to excessive usage of the Collins COBUILD Student's Dictionary (CCSD Online) we were forced to shut down this service temporarily.
		The Collins COBUILD Student's Dictionary will therefore no longer be available on-line to the general public free of charge.
	www.linguistics.ruhr-uni-bochum.de:8099 /ccsd-set.html (180 words)

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		The Collins COBUILD concordancer (demo version) is an on-line service run by Collins, an English publishing house.
		It allows you to see 40 contexts where a word you are interested in has been used.
		If you want to use the concordancer frequently, study the search options on the concordancer page.
	www.helsinki.fi /~lehtonen/cobuild.html (84 words)

	Collins COBUILD Resource Pack
		This CD was updated to contain the 4th edition of the dictionary, which is also available in paper or hardback.
		This Collins COBUILD dictionary is a talking dictionary that pronounces the words and their various forms.
		I have used the hardcover version for 10 years that I have been satisfied with, but this CD-ROM is much better than it.
	www.elearnaid.com /colcoboncdro1.html (1414 words)

	English Linguistics: Applied Linguistics (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		The COBUILD team (Collins Birmingham University International Language Database) consists of a set of researchers working in the Sinclairian tradition and using the vast Bank of English corpus to produce reference works such as the COBUILD dictionary, English grammar, and grammar patterns books.
		For more information on the COBUILD, you can visit their website at http://www.collins.co.uk/cobuild/.
		The COBUILD corpus is used at the English Linguistics section for research into various aspects of English grammar, including various topics to do with the lexicogrammar of the nominal group.
	wwwling3.arts.kuleuven.ac.be /engling_e/appling_e/cobuild.htm (124 words)

	Tucows Downloads - Collins Cobuild English Dictionary 1.0 Shareware Software
		Collins Dictionaries are widely acclaimed for their excellence and their continuing innovation.
		Collins Cobuild sets the highest standards with their modern English dictionary.
		This complete and powerful interactive 2,500,000-word resource is the ultimate electronic reference guide, helping you to find the most up-to-date words and meanings quickly and easily.
	www.tucows.com /preview/218286 (310 words)

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		Perhaps the best known lexical syllabus is represented in the Collins COBUILD English Course by Willis and Willis (1987?) and in Willis (1990).
		B. Identification and selection of commonest words with their commonest meanings and patterns based on the corpus of natural language.
		It allows learners to experience language items in natural contexts and to learn from their experience.
	www.auburn.edu /~nunnath/engl6240/lexicals.html (264 words)

	[No title] (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		Collins COBUILD English Usage has been thoroughly revised and updated to make it easier to use, and to include hundreds of new, updated examples, taken directly from the Bank of English corpus.
		The new edition offers mproved coverage of American English, numerous warning notes highlighting particular problems and graded lists of words to help learners build their active vocabulary.
		Presented in a clear, user-friendly style, and with logically organized Usage, Grammar and Topics sections, the Collins COBUILD English Usage gives you three books in one and is the indispensable reference tool for learning English today.
	www.harpercollins.co.uk /books/default.aspx?id=26351 (115 words)

	Tomtom's Cobuild Dictionary gone bezerk! - All About Symbian Forums
		My relative bought me this Cobuild Dictionary version 1.00 from handango.
		I have Cobuild (funny name for dictionary) and I ote that the two problems with it are memory errors or if you move the Cobuild file from the documents folder.
		That is why a restart will often solve the problem as everything from "not found" to "execserv" errors are jusr poorly trapped memory errors.
	www.allaboutsymbian.com /forum/showthread.php?p=1467 (734 words)

	PowerDic Collins Cobuild Dictionary for Symbian S60 - PDA/Smartphone Software (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		The fifth edition of the Collins COBUILD Advanced Learner's English Dictionary offers learners of English detailed coverage of today's language.
		Containing hundreds of new words and thousands of definitions written in simple, natural English, the Collins COBUILD Advanced Learner's English Dictionary provides invaluable and detailed guidance on the English language, and is the complete reference tool for learners of English.
		It is good to find Collins Cobuild for Symbian phone.
	software.brighthand.com /product.asp?id=7349 (466 words)

	CodeWeavers - Compatibility - View App - collins cobuild resource pack
		The Collins COBUILD Resource Pack has the above plus it also has the following contents on the CD:
		The dictionary has easy to understand full sentence definitions with lots of examples.
		We have not tested this application We do not know if it works, and we do not support it.
	www.codeweavers.com /site/compatibility/browse/cat?app_id=1634 (125 words)

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