[Corpora-List] New resources from the BNC

[Ylva Berglund]

New resources from the BNC

We are pleased to announce the release of BNC Baby v 2 – a new CD 
containing three English XML corpora (BNC Baby, BNC Sampler and Brown) 
along with the latest release of the Xaira corpus search toolkit.

Further information about the CD and how to obtain it can be found below 
and at http://www.natcorp.ox.ac.uk/babyinfo.html

BNC Baby is intended for use in teaching and learning about language 
from a corpus perspective. Xaira is an open source indexing program, 
developed specifically to give students the ability to experiment with 
many kinds of searching strategies on many kinds of corpora. You can use 
the software on the CD to develop your own searchable XML corpora, as 
well as to search the sample corpora supplied with it.

The BNC-Baby disk (second edition) contains:
• BNC-Baby
a subset of the British National Corpus. This contains four million-word 
samples, representing four major text types in Modern English: informal 
conversation, academic prose, fiction, and newspaper text. The texts are 
annotated with part-of-speech information and come with detailed 
metadata. Documentation of the corpus design and contents, and 
demonstration materials for using it in English language teaching is 
also provided.
• The BNC Sampler
a different subset of the British National Corpus. This contains two 
million-word samples, representing spoken and written texts. These texts 
were all hand-tagged and corrected during production of the BNC.
• A Standard Corpus of Present Day Edited American English (Brown)
the original Brown corpus, converted to XML, with POS tagging and lemmata
• Xaira
a new search and retrieval program for use with these — or any other — 
XML corpora. The tool will allow you to search the corpora making use of 
the metadata and tagging. For more information about Xaira see 
http://xaira.sf.net.

Price: €30 per CD
Special offer: Order 10 copies or more at and only pay €10 per CD!
(prices include standard airmail delivery charges but exclude VAT)
Order the CD at: http://www.natcorp.ox.ac.uk/orderform.html

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British National Corpus
http://www.natcorp.ox.ac.uk/
natcorp at oucs.ox.ac.uk
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