29.4591, FYI: Spoken BNC 2014 Transcripts Available for Download

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Subject: 29.4591, FYI: Spoken BNC 2014 Transcripts Available for Download

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Date: Mon, 19 Nov 2018 16:09:43
From: Tony McEnery [a.mcenery at lancaster.ac.uk]
Subject: Spoken BNC 2014 Transcripts Available for Download

 
On 19 November 2018, the ESRC Centre for Corpus Approaches to Social Science
(CASS) will be releasing full transcripts of the Spoken British National
Corpus 2014 (Spoken BNC2014) for non-commercial research purposes, here (
http://corpora.lancs.ac.uk/bnc2014/ ). This unique resource makes it possible
to study current informal British speech and will be of interest to corpus
linguists, NLP researchers, lexicographers, educators and anyone interested in
spoken language. While the corpus is already available via Lancaster CQPweb (
https://cqpweb.lancs.ac.uk/ ), the release of the transcripts will allow
researchers to apply a much wider range of analytical techniques, because the
corpus can now be uploaded to software packages of the user's choosing.

The Spoken BNC2014 is a 10-million-word sample of current spoken British
English recorded in different parts of the UK.  It consists of transcribed and
part-of-speech annotated informal conversations. The corpus was created
through a collaboration between CASS and Cambridge University Press.

For sociolinguistic explorations of the Spoken BNC2014 and its comparison with
BNC1994 - Demographic (demographic part of the original BNC), you can also use
 BNClab ( http://corpora.lancs.ac.uk/bnclab ), a brand new sociolinguistic
tool developed at Lancaster University.
 



Linguistic Field(s): Text/Corpus Linguistics

Subject Language(s): English (eng)





 



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