[Corpora-List] Coding in ICE-GB -- sorry

[Ute Römer]

Dear All,

A brief postscript to my recent message on ICE-GB coding. It just occurred
to me that an email Gerald Nelson posted on this issue (and my reply to it)
was only sent to my address and not to the list. In this message Gerald
Nelson points out that the <l> code is explained in the ICE-GB handbook on
p. 98, in the section on  linebreaks and hyphenation. So I thought I should
apologize for my sloppiness in consulting the Handbook. I only checked the
appendices and the index for markup characters and then browsed parts of the
book. The full reference of the handbook is: Nelson, Gerald, Sean Wallis and
Bas Aarts. 2002. Exploring Natural Language: Working With the British
Component of the International Corpus of English. Amsterdam: Benjamins.

Happy weekend everyone!
Best... Ute


----- Original Message -----
From: "Stefan Th. Gries" <STGries at sitkom.sdu.dk>
To: <CORPORA at HD.UIB.NO>
Sent: Wednesday, February 19, 2003 2:42 PM
Subject: [Corpora-List] Coding in ICE-GB


> Dear colleagues
>
> Working with the ICE-GB (using ICECUP3), I came across the following
markup
> which I am not able to find in the help file: <l> (which is apparently
> always within words). For example:
> <ICE-GB:W2A-021 #94:1> Nutrient starvation which results from the
inability
> of gut microflora to compete successfully for organic substrates present
at
> low con<l>centrations , is likely to prove important .
>
> >From the fact that I have so far only come across it in the written
> component and from the position within the word, it seems to be a
> hyphenation marker, but I am not sure - does any of you know what <l>
means?
> Thanks a lot,
>
> Stefan Th. Gries
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> IFKI, Southern Denmark University
> http://people.freenet.de/Stefan_Th_Gries
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>
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