[Corpora-List] Access to the BNC via BNCweb at Lancaster University

[Sebastian Hoffmann]

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Access to the BNC via BNCweb at Lancaster University
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Following the recent publication of "Corpus Linguistics with BNCweb - 
a Practical Guide" (Hoffmann, Evert, Smith, Lee & Berglund Prytz, 
2008 - 
http://www.uib.no/mailman/public/corpora/2008-October/007439.html), I 
would like to announce the availability of a new service hosted at 
Lancaster University for accessing the BNC (XML-edition) via BNCweb. 
The service is free of charge and available to anybody who registers 
with a valid e-mail address.

Since the BNC is a licensed product, certain access restrictions are 
implemented:

- Standard users do not have access to the larger context of 
individual concordance lines - only a single s-unit can be accessed 
at a time.
- Query results with more than 5000 matches are automatically 
downsampled to 5000 concordance lines. The selection is random but 
reproducible.
- The "Browse a Text" feature is disabled.

Please note that these restrictions may change at any time without 
prior notice.

I am also currently investigating the possibility of giving current 
license holders of the BNC (XML-version) full access to the corpus 
via the Lancaster server. Registered users of BNCweb will be notified 
of this option by e-mail once details are available.

URL for signing up: http://bncweb.lancs.ac.uk/bncwebSignup/

BNCweb is freely available Open Source software and can be installed 
on your own server. For further information about BNCweb, please 
visit http://bncweb.info.

Best,
Sebastian Hoffmann

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Dr. Sebastian Hoffmann
Department of Linguistics and English Language
Bowland College
Lancaster University
Lancaster LA1 4YT
U.K.
phone: +44 (0)1524 592254

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