CORPUS TOOLS AND SOFTWARE: OVERVIEW AND APPLICATIONS

This article provides a comprehensive overview of corpus tools and software, examining their theoretical foundations, technical features, and practical applications in linguistics and related disciplines. It discusses major types of corpora, widely used corpus analysis tools, and methodological approaches enabled by these technologies. The paper also highlights applications in language teaching, translation studies, lexicography, discourse analysis, and computational linguistics, emphasizing the growing importance of corpus-based research in modern language studies.