HOW TO USE SACODEYL

Searching and Browsing Tools

• SACODEYL: an open-access system

to explore & browse multimedia

contents of youth language in 7 EU

languages: EN - FR - GE - IT - LIT -

ROM - SP.

• We have developed many interesting tools for you to browse and find out interesting things about languages.

• You can easily browse videos of different interviews and search for words in the transcripted corpora.

On the 1st screen, choose the corpus you want to work with

- If you click "Search!" you can search the corpus in varied ways.- If you click "Browse!" you can look at the interviews & videos of the corpus

A) SEARCH FOR WORDS

4 searching types:

1) Section Search

2) Word Search

3) Co-occurrence

4) View Lists

Figure 1 – Section Search

Figure 2 - Word Search

Figure 3 - Co-Occurrence

Figure 4- View Lists

Example of Search – Step 1.1 Search for all the sections of the interviews where the category “Holidays” occurs.

Tick on Categories / Topics / Holidays as indicated in the following screen:

Example of Search – Step 1.2

Click on Search! to obtain Sections of interviews annotated with the Topic “Holidays”

Each result shows transcription of the text & allows viewing clip of the interview

Example of Search – Step 2.1

Search for all occurrences of the word “Cambridge” in the English corpus. Click on “Word Search” and write “Cambridge” in the gap named “Word 1”

Example of Search – Step 2.2Click on Search! and the following results will appear

A word match list with all occurrences of “Cambridge” in the corpora (12 results)8 words appearing on the left (Left Context) & 8 words on the right (Right context)

Example of Search – Step 3.1We refine the search looking for the occurrence of 2 words in the same section. Click on Co-Occurrence, write in Search string “Oxford Cambridge” and Search!

Now we obtain just 5 Sections in which these 2 words co-occur.

Example of Search – Step 4.1Use “Word list” to generate a frequency word list of all words in the corpus.Click on View Lists / Show Word Lists

B) BROWSE FOR VIDEOSCome back to the main menu of the English Corpus

B) BROWSE FOR VIDEOSIf you choose Browse you obtain this screen:

B) BROWSE FOR VIDEOS

• From the Browse screen you can download and watch the clips of the different interviews.

• As they are in RM format, it is necessary to use Real Player to watch them.

• Now you can listen to the interviews and watch teenagers talking about their interests.