Building subcorpora from the BNC

[xiaoz]

If you have a copy of the BNC and want to use WordSmith to study language variation on the basis of subcorpora defined according to your own criteria, you will find the BNC Indexer useful.
http://www.comp.lancs.ac.uk/ucrel/bncindex/form.html

[Haiyang]

Thank you very much !

[tiger]

great idea

[lizzawood]

where can we get a copy of BNC, pls?

[xujiajin]

All you want to know about the BNC
http://www.corpus4u.com/forum_view.asp?view_id=220&forum_id=34

BNC is copyrighted you can order online:
如果真想买光盘，可参看编者给的信息：
http://helmer.aksis.uib.no/icame/cd/

网上购物表（最方便的是用信用卡购买）：
http://helmer.aksis.uib.no/icame/newcd-of.html

BNC Baby version 2.0 will be released shortly (20 pounds), including the BNC sampler, Brown, and contents of version 1 (Xaira 1.09 replaced with 1.15).

ICAME will shortly release a new CD, including new XML versions of old corpora and many new resources.

[xujiajin]

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