Online services using the BNC
BNC Web
A full-featured web interface hosted by Lancaster University "for searching and retrieving lexical, grammatical and textual data from the British National Corpus (BNC). It relies on the Corpus Query Processor (CQP) of the IMS Open Corpus Workbench to provide a convenient interface between the user and the rich variety of annotated text in the 100-million word BNC in its most recent incarnation, the XML-version." Freely available to BNC licensees. For more information and access, visit The BNCweb Site
Shogakukan Corpus Network
Japanese users can access a paid service with a Japanese interface via the Shogakukan Corpus Network.
Mark Davies's interface to the BNC (was "VIEW: Variation in English Words and Phrases")
Developed by Mark Davies at Brigham Young University, this service allows you to search for a word or a phrase in the BNC but will only show a limited amount of context in your search results. You can restrict your search to a particular part of the corpus and you can also include word-class information in your search. The interface also allows you to search for patterns including synonyms (as defined by the American WordNet). For more information and access, visit http://corpus.byu.edu/bnc/
Phrases in English (PiE)
developed by William H. Fletcher of the US Naval Academy in consultation with Michael Stubbs of the University of Trier.
PiE allows the user to search for n-grams consisting of up to eight words or part-of-speech tags. Results can be ordered alphabetically, by frequency or by POS tag. Users can define specific word-forms and / or word-classes which a query must match or exclude. It will not display the whole texts but only a limited amount of context. For more information and access, visit http://pie.usna.edu/.
Just the Word developed by Pete Whitelock and hosted by Sharp Labs (UK).
A simple interface which allows you to "..search for a word and get a detailed description of the company which that word keeps in modern-day English". Frequencies based on a portion of the BNC. Available at http://www.sle.sharp.co.uk/JustTheWord.
BNC Web
A full-featured web interface hosted by Lancaster University "for searching and retrieving lexical, grammatical and textual data from the British National Corpus (BNC). It relies on the Corpus Query Processor (CQP) of the IMS Open Corpus Workbench to provide a convenient interface between the user and the rich variety of annotated text in the 100-million word BNC in its most recent incarnation, the XML-version." Freely available to BNC licensees. For more information and access, visit The BNCweb Site
Shogakukan Corpus Network
Japanese users can access a paid service with a Japanese interface via the Shogakukan Corpus Network.
Mark Davies's interface to the BNC (was "VIEW: Variation in English Words and Phrases")
Developed by Mark Davies at Brigham Young University, this service allows you to search for a word or a phrase in the BNC but will only show a limited amount of context in your search results. You can restrict your search to a particular part of the corpus and you can also include word-class information in your search. The interface also allows you to search for patterns including synonyms (as defined by the American WordNet). For more information and access, visit http://corpus.byu.edu/bnc/
Phrases in English (PiE)
developed by William H. Fletcher of the US Naval Academy in consultation with Michael Stubbs of the University of Trier.
PiE allows the user to search for n-grams consisting of up to eight words or part-of-speech tags. Results can be ordered alphabetically, by frequency or by POS tag. Users can define specific word-forms and / or word-classes which a query must match or exclude. It will not display the whole texts but only a limited amount of context. For more information and access, visit http://pie.usna.edu/.
Just the Word developed by Pete Whitelock and hosted by Sharp Labs (UK).
A simple interface which allows you to "..search for a word and get a detailed description of the company which that word keeps in modern-day English". Frequencies based on a portion of the BNC. Available at http://www.sle.sharp.co.uk/JustTheWord.
