[Corpora-List] problems with BNC and Sara

[Suzanne Hempel]

Hello everyone,

I would like to solicit your help concerning the BNC and especially the 
software designed for it, SARA-32.

I have purchased the BNC World Edition on CD-Rom, and (after quite a lot of 
installation problems) have installed it successfully on my PC.
I then tried to design a subcorpora for my research. This was described as 
quite easy by the creators of the BNC, however, I encountered several 
problems. I downloaded the indexer in order to be able to register my 
defined subcorpus, and it seemed to work OK; but whenever the program was 
registering the subcorpus, a message ("lemma scheme null" occured and the 
program was closed automatically. Unnecessary to say that there was no 
trace of my subcorpus anywhere...

I would like to know whether you have encountered the same problems, and, 
if you've got a solution, whether you could let me know as fast as 
possible. My research depends on this corpus feature, and I've already 
spent several days trying to understand the cryptic BNC+SARA manual(s!) and 
BNC answers to my questions...

  Thank you very much in advance,

best wishes,

Susanne HEMPEL
Université Catholique de Louvain