LINGUIST List 13.1822

Sun Jun 30 2002

Software: BNCweb AVAILABLE FOR REVIEW

Editor for this issue: Terence Langendoen <terrylinguistlist.org>

Directory

1. linguistlist reviews, Call for reviewers for BNCweb

This is a call for reviewers for BNCweb, a web-based interface to the
100-million word British National Corpus, that was announced on
LINGUIST at http://linguistlist.org/issues/13/13-1709.html/.

Prospective reviewers are advised that running this software requires:
 a UNIX operating system,
 a full (local) installation of the BNC World Edition
 (see http://info.ox.ac.uk/bnc/), and
 some additional UNIX tools, including MySQL and Perl.

Also, even though a detailed installation manual is provided with the
software, some basic system administration skills are necessary.
If you are interested in reviewing this software, please contact
Terry Langendoen at terrylinguistlist.org. Please include in your
message:
 an affirmation that you have the required computing environment,
 a description of your qualifications,
 your reason(s) for wanting to review this software, and
 a mailing address for sending you the installation CD-ROM.

Linguist List reviews
 Simin Karimi (siminlinguistlist.org)
 Terry Langendoen (terrylinguistlist.org)
Editors