[Corpora-List] Updated resource announcement: Scottish Corpus of Texts and Speech

[Dr Wendy Anderson]

Dear all,
The Scottish Corpus of Texts and Speech (SCOTS) Project is delighted to
announce an update to our online corpus, freely available at
www.scottishcorpus.ac.uk, on 10 February 2006.

The major improvement to the Corpus with this update is the addition of an
Advanced Search System, which more fully exploits SCOTS' extensive
sociolinguistic metadata by allowing the user to build up a search profile
specifying sociolinguistic or textual criteria. For example, you can now
narrow your search to spoken texts involving participants from Orkney;
compare the use of the adverb 'definitely' in spoken and written texts;
restrict your search to texts which are translations; compare discourse
features across spoken language, written records of speech, and written
language.

The latest version of the Corpus now includes over 900 texts and a total of
over 2.3 million words. Genres include informal correspondence, prose
fiction and non-fiction, poetry, religious texts and
administrative/political texts. A number of new spoken texts (conversations
and interviews) are also now available, presented as audio/video files with
synchronised orthographic transcriptions.

As before, features of SCOTS include:

* wildcard word/phrase searching
* flexible ordering of results lists
* navigation between word/phrase occurrences
* synchronisation of multimedia files with orthographic transcriptions
* a basic key-word-in-context display

We intend to provide a more sophisticated concordance facility and
geographical visualisation in a future update.

We encourage users to give us feedback on the SCOTS resource, including
desired enhancements to the facilities and texts available, through our
webform.

with kind regards,

The SCOTS team
www.scottishcorpus.ac.uk

The Scottish Corpus of Texts and Speech at the University of Glasgow is
funded by an AHRC Grant.
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Dr Wendy J. Anderson
Research Assistant
Scottish Corpus of Texts and Speech
Department of English Language
University of Glasgow
12 University Gardens
Glasgow
G12 8QQ
Scotland, UK

Website: http://www.scottishcorpus.ac.uk