19.3325, FYI: Access to the British National Corpus

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Subject: 19.3325, FYI: Access to the British National Corpus

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Date: 01-Nov-2008
From: Sebastian Hoffmann < s.hoffmann at lancaster.ac.uk >
Subject: Access to the British National Corpus (BNC) at Lancaster University

 

	
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Date: Mon, 03 Nov 2008 01:26:11
From: Sebastian Hoffmann [s.hoffmann at lancaster.ac.uk]
Subject: Access to the British National Corpus (BNC) at Lancaster University

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Access to the British National Corpus via BNCweb at Lancaster University:

I would like to announce the availability of a new service hosted at 
Lancaster University for accessing the British National Corpus (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.

- 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

The functionality of BNCweb is described in detail in ''Corpus Linguistics 
with BNCweb - a Practical Guide'' (Hoffmann, Evert, Smith, Lee & Berglund 
Prytz, 2008). A sample chapter and the table of contents can be 
downloaded from:

http://bncweb.info

Best,
Sebastian Hoffmann 



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