Corpora: reliability of web interface to the BNC

[Lou Burnard]

If you try this again, you will find that there are in fact 82
references to "nutshell" in the full BNC.

There was a temporary fault (now fixed) on the BNC Online server which
caused all queries submitted via the web interface to fail. It looked
like the millenium bug for a while -- but it was just common-or-garden
stupidity. Apologies to you and anyone else who has been trying to use
the BNC Online service already this century -- please try again and
all should be well.

Happy new year to all corporeal readers!


Lou


On Tue, 4 Jan 2000, John Milton wrote:

|I should probably be sening ths to the BNC list -- apologies... The web
|interface to the BNC appears not very reliable. For example, I look up
|'nutshell' in the 1,000,000-word BNC sampler and find three references,
|but when I look for it using the interface to the 100,000,000-word
|collection at http://info.ox.ac.uk/bnc/search.html, I get "No matches
|found."
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|-- John Milton
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 Lou Burnard                           http://users.ox.ac.uk/~lou
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