FYI: Word Profiler for Contemporary Written Japanese

Author:	Mikio Giriko
Linguistic Field(s):	Text/Corpus Linguistics
FYI Body:	We are pleased to announce that an epoch-making corpus-browsing tool, NLB (NINJAL-Lago Word Profiler for the Balanced Corpus of Contemporary Written Japanese), has just been launched and is available on NINJAL’s website: http://ninjal-lwp-bccwj.ninjal.ac.jp/ NLB, jointly developed by NINJAL and Lago Insititute for Language, uses the technique of lexical profiling and allows the user to profile, without much knowledge of computers, the collocational and grammatical behaviour of the Japanese nouns, verbs, adjectives, and adverbs included in NINJAL’s Balanced Corpus of Contemporary Written Japanese (BCCWJ). Access is free of charge for academic and educational use. For commercial use, please consult us beforehand at: nlb@ninjal.ac.jp Your feedback is always welcomed and appreciated. For general comments, suggestions and questions, email us at: nlb@ninjal.ac.jp. For technical ones at: nlb-tech@ninjal.ac.jp. Enjoy browsing the BCCWJ corpus using NLB!!! Prashant PARDESHI Department of Crosslinguistic Studies National Institute for Japanese Language and Linguistics (NINJAL) 10-2 Midori-cho, Tachikawa-shi, Tokyo 190-8561, JAPAN.