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Access to the BNC via BNCweb at Lancaster University
****************************************************
Following the recent publication of "Corpus Linguistics with BNCweb -
a Practical Guide" (Hoffmann, Evert, Smith, Lee & Berglund Prytz,
2008 -
http://www.uib.no/mailman/public/corpora/2008-October/007439.html), I
would like to announce the availability of a new service hosted at
Lancaster University for accessing the BNC (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 - only a single s-unit can be accessed
at a time.
- 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.
Best,
Sebastian Hoffmann
--
Dr. Sebastian Hoffmann
Department of Linguistics and English Language
Bowland College
Lancaster University
Lancaster LA1 4YT
U.K.
phone: +44 (0)1524 592254
Access to the BNC via BNCweb at Lancaster University
****************************************************
Following the recent publication of "Corpus Linguistics with BNCweb -
a Practical Guide" (Hoffmann, Evert, Smith, Lee & Berglund Prytz,
2008 -
http://www.uib.no/mailman/public/corpora/2008-October/007439.html), I
would like to announce the availability of a new service hosted at
Lancaster University for accessing the BNC (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 - only a single s-unit can be accessed
at a time.
- 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.
Best,
Sebastian Hoffmann
--
Dr. Sebastian Hoffmann
Department of Linguistics and English Language
Bowland College
Lancaster University
Lancaster LA1 4YT
U.K.
phone: +44 (0)1524 592254
