LINGUIST List 9.1698

Wed Dec 2 1998

FYI: Conference list, International Corpus Release

Editor for this issue: Jody Huellmantel <jodylinguistlist.org>

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1. Peter White, Latest Linguistic Conference List
2. Survey of English Usage, Release of the ICE-GB Corpus

Dear friends,

The December 1998 conference schedual of linguistics
and related topics is now available at:
http://www.cltr.uq.edu.au/conf.html

Over 60 new conferences have been added since 1 October '98. 

Thanks to all who provided information.

Regards
Peter

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Peter White
Centre for Language Teaching and Research
University of Queensland, Qld 4072
Australia
Tel: +61 7 3365 6893; Fax: +61 7 3365 7077
Email: peterwlingua.cltr.uq.edu.au
Web: http://www.cltr.uq.edu.au/users/peter.white
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The Survey of English Usage, University College London, is pleased to
announce the release of the ICE-GB corpus, the British component of
the International Corpus of English (ICE).

ICE-GB is a fully parsed corpus of adult British English from the
1990s. It contains 300 spoken texts and 200 written texts - a total
of 1 million words. The texts are distributed across 32 categories,
including private conversations, telephone calls, court proceedings,
broadcasts, social letters, examination scripts, and academic writing.

ICE-GB has been grammatically analysed at wordclass level, and at the
function and category levels. The analyses are presented as labelled
syntactic trees - 83,419 trees in total.

The corpus is distributed with its own dedicated retrieval software,
ICECUP.

ICE-GB and ICECUP are available now on CD-ROM. 

A Sample Corpus of ten parsed texts, together with ICECUP, may be
downloaded free from our website, at:
http://www.ucl.ac.uk/english-usage/


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Survey of English Usage
Department of English
University College London
Gower Street
London WC1E 6BT
UK

Telephone: 0171-419-3119 Marie Gibney (Administrator)
 0171-419-3120 SEU Research Unit
Email: ucleseuucl.ac.uk
Fax: 0171-916-2054
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