FYI: Access to the British National Corpus (BNC) at Lancaster University

Author:	Sebastian Hoffmann
Linguistic Field(s):	Text/Corpus Linguistics
FYI Body:	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