[Corpora-List] Survey of English Usage Annual Report 2005: New range of software products released

[Christine Bowles]

Dear Colleague

The Survey of English Usage Annual Report 2005 can be viewed here:

http://www.ucl.ac.uk/english-usage/archives/2005report.htm

You may also be interested in a new range of software products that the
Survey will shortly be launching.  All orders received before 30 June will
receive an automatic 10% discount on the published prices. Further
discounts are available for orders of two or more products.

For further details and prices,including upgrades,please see:

http://www.ucl.ac.uk/english-usage/resources/sales.htm

For a brief outline of each product please see below:

ICE-GB RELEASE 2, SEARCHABLE WITH ICECUP 3.1

We are pleased to announce Release 2 of ICE-GB. The material in Release 2
of the corpus has been synchronised with the sound recordings for the
spoken part of the corpus, which can optionally be supplied separately.

Together with Release 2 of ICE-GB we are very pleased to announce the
publication of ICECUP 3.1, the dedicated exploration software for ICE-GB
and DCPSE (see below). New features in ICECUP 3.1 include a lexicon and a
grammaticon, providing an overview of distributions of words and tags, and
grammatical nodes, respectively. These overview tools contain user-defined
tables of statistics allowing users to explore, for example, the
distribution of any word or Fuzzy Tree Fragment (FTF) across the corpus
map, or study how the lexicon for speech and writing may differ. These
tables can also be output, e.g. to Excel.

The Fuzzy Tree Fragment facility has been extended.

There are many other improvements to ICECUP in this release, including the
possibility of carrying out pre-indexed lexicon (word+tag) queries,
parallel searching, mouse-based pan-and-zoom, quick-find controls, viewable
context, more pop-up help, manual filtering of results and a new FTF
Creation Wizard.

ICECUPT 3.1 also features a thoroughly revised on-line help manual covering
all the new features. A new ICECUP Getting Started booklet will be
published with the corpus.

The DIACHRONIC CORPUS OF PRESENT-DAY SPOKEN ENGLISH (DCPSE)

We are also pleased to announce the publication of a new corpus: DCPSE.
This corpus contains a total of 800,000 words of spoken English from
comparable categories in the London-Lund Corpus and the ICE-GB Corpus
(400,000 words from each corpus). The design of these corpora is similar,
and it will thus be possible to study the linguistic features of analogous
categories of spontaneous spoken English over time.  DCPSE is the largest
single collection of checked and parsed orthographically transcribed spoken
English in the world. The new corpus will provide linguists interested in
recent linguistic changes in English with a new, innovative and searchable
database containing spoken English covering a period of 25-30 years.  The
corpus is suppplied on a CD together with the new ICE-CUP 3.1 exploration
software and a 'Getting Started' booklet.

ICE-GB SOUND RECORDINGS

The sound recordings will be available in the form of a set of CDs
containing uncompressed "wave" files for installation on a hard disk.

Regards.




Christine Bowles
Administrator
Survey of English Usage
Department of English Language and Literature
University College London
Gower Street
London  WC1E 6BT
Tel: 020-7679 3119
Fax: 020-7916 2054
E-Mail: c.bowles at ucl.ac.uk
Web: http://www.ucl.ac.uk/english-usage/