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<DIV>Dear Stella and others,</DIV>
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<DIV>I don't know what's wrong with the BNC Search system, but I thought of
two other online concordancing options you might want to consider, not to
replace the BNC (and BoE) but maybe to complement it. </DIV>
<DIV>1. MICASE online at <A
href="http://www.hti.umich.edu/m/micase/">http://www.hti.umich.edu/m/micase/</A>;
you can search the Michigan Corpus of Academic Spoken English (roughly 2 mio.
tokens) online and specify different speaker and speech attributes</DIV>
<DIV>2. WebCorp at <A
href="http://www.webcorp.org.uk/">http://www.webcorp.org.uk/</A> which
retrieves concordances from the Web</DIV>
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<DIV>Let's hope the BNC and COBUILD problems are only temporary (the Collins
website asks us to "be patient"). The Bank of English being down got me in quite
some trouble too as I had told my students to use the online concordance
and collocations sampler to retrieve data for their research projects...</DIV>
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<DIV>Best wishes... Ute</DIV>
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<DIV>Ute Römer<BR>English Department<BR>University of Hanover<BR>Königsworther
Platz 1<BR>30167 Hanover<BR>Germany</DIV>
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<DIV>Phone: +49 (0)511 762 2997<BR>Fax: +49 (0)511 762 2996<BR>E-mail: <A
href="mailto:ute.roemer@anglistik.uni-hannover.de">ute.roemer@anglistik.uni-hannover.de</A><BR><A
href="http://www.fbls.uni-hannover.de/angli/">http://www.fbls.uni-hannover.de/angli/</A></DIV>
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<DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial">----- Original Message ----- </DIV>
<DIV
style="BACKGROUND: #e4e4e4; FONT: 10pt arial; font-color: black"><B>From:</B>
<A title=seotagni@usp.br href="mailto:seotagni@usp.br">Stella Tagnin</A>
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<DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial"><B>To:</B> <A title=CORPORA@UIB.NO
href="mailto:CORPORA@UIB.NO">CORPORA</A> </DIV>
<DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial"><B>Sent:</B> Thursday, February 05, 2004 12:27
PM</DIV>
<DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial"><B>Subject:</B> [Corpora-List] BNC online
down???</DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>Colleagues,</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>Does anyone happen to know what's the matter with
the BNC online version? I haven't been able to access for a few
days.</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2></FONT> </DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>Hope it's nothing serious! What with Cobuild "out
of the game" (temporarily, I hope), we'd be left with no online corpora for
English!</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2></FONT> </DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>Or does anyone know of other corpora available on
the Web?</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2></FONT> </DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>Thanks for any light!</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2></FONT> </DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>Stella</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2></FONT> </DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>Stella E. O. Tagnin<BR>Projeto COMET<BR>FFLCH -
Universidade de São Paulo<BR>Av. Prof. Luciano Gualberto, 403 - sala
14<BR>05508-900 - São Paulo - SP<BR>Tel.: 55 11 3091-2929<BR>Fax 55 11
3032-2325<BR><A
href="mailto:projetocomet@edu.usp.br">projetocomet@edu.usp.br</A></FONT></DIV></BLOCKQUOTE></BODY></HTML>