Corpora: Analysis and Prediction of Innovation in the Lexicon

[Andrew Kehoe]

Analysis and Prediction of Innovation in the Lexicon (APRIL) Project

The Research and Development Unit for English Studies would like to announce the
launch of its APRIL new and rare word classification system, the latest in a
series of demonstrator systems on the RDUES website.

The full APRIL database contains new/rare words from the UK newspaper The
Independent during the period 1989-1999, as identified by our software.  A
web-based user interface allows the user to conduct custom queries of the
database to extract valuable linguistic information.  Queries can be customised
in terms of word length, part of speech, pattern matching, affixes, word
compound components, etc.

A demonstration version of the software, containing a single month of data
(April 1998) is available for testing at:

	http://www.rdues.liv.ac.uk/april.shtml
	
We would appreciate your feedback on the system.

Andrew Kehoe
Research and Development Unit for English Studies
University of Liverpool
http://www.rdues.liv.ac.uk
WebCorp: http://www.webcorp.org.uk