Construction of CivDEAP Corpus and Its Application in Academic Research and Teaching Practice in Civil Engineering
Baicheng Zhang, Ling Yang
Abstract
Civil engineering academic English corpus CivDEAP is a sub-corpus of the DEAP (Database of English for Academic Purposes) Corpora. The paper first introduces the construction of CivDEAP in terms of construction objective and scheme, text collecting, naming, cleaning, and annotating, and then explores the application of CivDEAP in both academic research and teaching/learning practice. Lastly, the paper offers some tentative suggestions on the follow-upsize-expanding construction of CivDEAP.