ChatGPT: Friend or foe (to corpus linguists)?

Phoebe Lin

doi:10.1016/j.acorp.2023.100065

ChatGPT: Friend or foe (to corpus linguists)?

Phoebe Lin

Department of English and Communication

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Abstract

This short communication discusses the impact of ChatGPT on the field of corpus linguistics, particularly its potential as a concordancer. As a corpus linguist and app developer, the author reflects on how ChatGPT's ease of use, efficiency, and popularity could challenge traditional concordancers, and explores ways in which ChatGPT could be used to generate concordances and frequency lists.

Original language	English
Article number	100065
Number of pages	5
Journal	Applied Corpus Linguistics
Volume	3
Issue number	3
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1016/j.acorp.2023.100065
Publication status	Published - Dec 2023

Keywords

AI in education
ChatGPT
Concordancing
Corpus linguistics
English language teaching

ASJC Scopus subject areas

Linguistics and Language
Social Sciences (miscellaneous)

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